Research and Writing
My broad research interests are in the history of educational photography, visual technology in science, and discourses about visual communication. My projects explore Cold War-era proposals about photography’s democratic power and related ideas about relationships between photography and language. I am also currently working on a project about black hole imaging and its relationship to the history of photography.
As an extension of my work as a researcher, I am part of By/For: Photography & Democracy, a collective focused on the history of ideas about photography as a democratic force. I also currently serve as a board member of the Photography Network, and commissioning editor of Visual Resources.
Samples of my work:
“Looking at Data: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Image Research,” XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, Vol. 31, No. 2 (2024), 16–21, https://doi.org/10.1145/3703399.
Contributor, Art of Astrophysics, virtual exhibition at the Museum of Science, the Arts, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration (MoSAIC), 2024 (exhibition text on 3D image of black hole).
“Science, Politics, and Visual Design in Cold War America: Will Burtin’s ‘Cell’,” Visual Resources, Vol. 34, No. 3-4 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2018.1499472.
“Pedagogical Interventions: The Physics Photographs of Berenice Abbott,” RACAR: Revue d’art canadienne/Canadian Art Review, Vol. 41, No. 2 (2016), 72-85, https://www.jstor.org/stable/44011808.
“’Through Navajo Eyes’: Film Education as Democratic Progress in the 1960s” (conference presentation), Photography History Research Center Annual Conference, Leicester, UK, 2020.
“Kul’ttovary: Bringing Culture into the Soviet Home,” Florida State University, caa.reviews, April 2018.
Botany Hall: Dioramas in Context with Aisling Quigley: a digital exhibition about the botanical dioramas of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 2018.
Profile of John Mawurndjul, Artist Profile, Summer 2014.
“War at a Distance,” Gallery TPW, C Magazine, Issue 105, Spring 2010.
