Shawn Michelle Smith

Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture, published by Duke University Press, and American Archives: Gender, Race, and show more Class in Visual Culture; coauthor (with Dora Apel) of Lynching Photographs; and coeditor (with Maurice O. Wallace) of Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity, also published by Duke University Press. show less