Visualizing Freedom: Photography & Emancipation

Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
Reception & Book Signing 6:00pm
Lecture & Presentation 6:30pm
Smith Buonanno 106
95 Cushing Street

Free and open to the public

Please join us at 6:00pm on Tuesday, March 4th, for a reception to welcome Professor Deborah Willis. Prof. Willis will also be available for book purchases and signing. Following the reception at 6:30pm, join us for the 2014 Debra L. Lee Lecture on Slavery and Justice, Visualizing Freedom: Photography and Emancipation.

Deborah Willis, PhD, is chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Professor Willis has an affiliated appointment as University Professor with the College of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies also at NYU. Professor Willis has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Fletcher, and MacArthur fellowships, the Infinity Award in Writing from the International Center for Photography, and recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award. Named one of the "100 Most Important People in Photography" by American Photography magazine, she is one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography and curators of African American culture.