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Dr Kimberly Schreiber

 

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Kimberly Schreiber is an Associate Lecturer in History of Art. Her research focuses on the relationship between histories of photography and processes of racialisation in the United States and beyond. She is interested in the photographic and media cultures of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the ongoing conversations between the fields of black studies and art history. In May 2024, she will take up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the Institute of the Americas at UCL.  


Contact Details

Office: 201, 20 Gordon Square
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1:30 – 2:30; Thursdays, 4:30 – 5:30; Please book here
Email: Kimberly.schreiber.16@ucl.ac.uk


Appointment

Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in the History of Art
Dept of History of Art
Faculty of S&HS

Research


Research Themes

Histories and theories of photography; race and representation; American film, media and visual culture

Selected Publications

Review of Thy Phu, Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam. History of Photography. Forthcoming 2023.
 
"From State Welfare to State Warfare: Family Values in Leonard Freed’s Police Work,” Journal of American Studies. June 2023.
 
"Kodachrome Plantation: Bruce Jackson's Colour Prison Photographs." Photography and Culture. Vol 15, No 2. September 2021, 151-169.
 
Review of Sally Stein, Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender and Sarah Meister, Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother. Oxford Art Journal. December 2021.
 
Review of Chad Elias, Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon." Object Journal 21 (1). January 2019.
 

Teaching 

Kimberly is currently teaching the first-year thematic seminar “Photography and…”, the second-year modules "History of the Category 'Art'" (co-taught with Jenny Nachtigall) and "Histories of Photography”, as well as the third-year advanced undergraduate seminar entitled “On Property: Photography, Land and Labour in America.” 

Biography

Kimberly Schreiber is an Associate Lecturer in History of Art. She completed her PhD in History of Art at UCL in 2022. In May 2024, she will take up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at UCL’s Institute of the Americas.