The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
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Deborah Willis

University Professor; Professor of Photography and Imaging
Ph.D. (cultural studies), George Mason University; MA (art history), City University of New York; MFA (photography), Pratt Institute; BFA (photography), Philadelphia College of the Arts

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Areas of Research/Interest: Visual Culture, Photography

External Affiliations: College Art Association; American Studies Association; Society for Photographic Education

Fellowships/Honors: MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fletcher Fellowship

Select Publications:

A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. DuBois and Portraits of Progress (New York: Amistad, 2003)

The Black Female Body: A Photographic History, co-editor (Philadelphia:TempleUP, 2002)

Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photography 1840- Present (New York: Norton, 2000)

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