UW Public Lectures: Tina Campt

Dr. Tina Campt is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art
and lead convener of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project.
She began her career as a historian of modern Germany, earning a Ph.D. in
history from Cornell University. She is one of the founding scholars of Black
European Studies, and her early work theorized gender, racial, and diasporic
formation in black communities in Europe and southern Africa, with an emphasis on
the role of vernacular photography in historical interpretation. Her recent scholarship
bridges the divide between vernacular image-making in black diasporic communities
and the interventions of black contemporary artists in reshaping how we see ourselves
and our societies.

Campt has also published five books and received the 2020 PhotographyCatalogue
of the Year Award from Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation for her co-edited
collection, Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography
(with Marianne Hirsch, Gil Hochberg and Brian Wallis, Steidl, 2020) – and has held
faculty positions at Brown University, Barnard College-Columbia University, Duke
University, University of California-Santa Cruz, and the Technical University of Berlin.