Shawn Michelle Smith

Shawn Michelle Smith is an award-winning writer, scholar, artist, and educator. She has published seven books, including Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography (Duke 2020), At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen (Duke 2013), Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture (Duke 2004), and American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture (Princeton 1999). Her scholarship has been supported by fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, among others. She has published articles in journals such as American Quarterly, Art Journal, African American Review, American Art, Journal of Visual Culture, Photography and Culture, Aperture, and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally, at venues including the Gallery at Penn College, Epiphany Center for the Arts (Chicago), the Houston Center for Photography, the Kansas City Art Institute, New Mexico State University Art Gallery, the Sheldon Art Galleries (St. Louis), The William Benton Museum of Art (Storrs), and many other college and university galleries.