ART HISTORIAN

I am an Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at the University of Sydney and have published widely on the history of art and photography.  I am the author of Photography and Place: Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945 (Routledge, 2016); editor with Natalya Lusty of Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images (Routledge 2019), which was awarded AAANZ AWAPA Best Anthology 2020; and editor with Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Modernist Aesthetics in Transition: Visual Culture in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany (Bloomsbury, 2024). I am a recipient of an Academy of the Humanities, Ernst & Rosemarie Keller Award in 2017 for my work on the East German Stasi Surveillance Archive, and Sloan Fellow in Photography at Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Trinity College, 2024), where I studied the Chadwyck-Healey Collection of Photobooks as part of the project Modernist Photobooks, Propaganda and the Everyday. In Hilary Term, 2025 I will be an Oliver Smithies Lecturer of Balliol at the University of Oxford.

My current book projects are, Disrupting Archives: Stasi Surveillance and its Photographic Afterlife, and On Disaster: Photography, Media, and Visual Culture.

I am a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Visual Cultures and German Contexts book series with Bloomsbury Academic and Chair of the Photographic Cultures Research Group. MORE

BANNER IMAGE: H. Scott Orr, (1881-1972) The destruction of airship SL-11 near London Sep 1916. Gelatin silver prints | 13.4 x 8.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2503180. Royal Collection Trust, London.