Elizabeth Edwards (2) (1952–)

Elizabeth Edwards is an historian by training but has been fully absorbed by anthropology. She works on the relationship between photography, anthropology and history, especially in the Pacific, on cross-cultural visual histories, on photographs as material culture and the history of collecting and institutional practices. Until 2005 she was Curator of Photographs at Pitt Rivers Museum and lecturer in Visual Anthropology at University of Oxford, and then Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London (LCC) until 2011. She has recently taken up the post of Research Professor and Director of the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University.