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Photography and Visual Culture

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Hannah Awcock
Edinburgh Napier University
2
Camilo León-Quijano
Centre Norbert Elias
3
Mieke Bal
University of Amsterdam
4
Henry B. B. Etheridge
The University of Texas at Austin
5
Hanan Muneer Al Sheikh
Al-Ahliyya Amman University
6
Agata Frymus
Monash University Malaysia
7
Dale Washkansky
University of Cape Town
8
Stephen Petersen
University of Delaware
9
Saumava Mitra
Dublin City University
10
Yunchang Yang
Peking University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Digital mourning: The transformative role of photography in contemporary grief practices
Death Studies|2025
11 cit.
2
Stuck Up, Peeled Off, Covered Up, Shared and Scribbled Out: Doing Ordinary Politics with Political Stickers
GeoHumanities|2024
8 cit.
3
Shifting perspectives: exploring the intersection of traditional and digital photography in contemporary artistic practices
Visual Studies|2024
7 cit.
4
What Am I Doing Here? Self-Reflexivity in Cross-Border Journalism Research
The International Journal of Press/Politics|2024
5 cit.
5
Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India
Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies|2024
4 cit.
6
Special issue: Cross-border, collaborative and cross-boundary journalism practices: Challenges and opportunities for ensuring safety of journalists
Journalism|2025
4 cit.
7
Nature’s unseen creations: the philosophical dialog between weathering and visual representation
Cogent Arts and Humanities|2025
4 cit.
8
La Cité
Current Anthropology|2024
3 cit.
9
Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle
Leonardo|2024
2 cit.
10
Mind maps in design education: Enhancing cognitive and strategic thinking – A case study review from Al-Ahliyya Amman University
The Design Journal|2026
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Rogério Rosa Rodrigues
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
2
Elspeth H. Brown
University of Toronto
3
Gary Bratchford
University of Lancashire
4
Margarethe Szeless
University of Vienna
5
Jenny Marsden
Historical Archives
6
Deepali Dewan
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
7
Mirjana Ristic
University of Melbourne
8
N. P. M. BAKKER
University of Amsterdam
9
Silvia A. Torezani
The University of Texas at Austin
10
Toha De Brant
Unknown

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Another Aesthetics is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War.
Universum|2022
22 cit.
2
Toward an Ethos of Trans Care in Trans Oral History
The Oral History Review|2022
6 cit.
3
Imagining the city
Visual Studies|2024
1 cit.
4
rede cabocla de educadores do Contestado
DRd - Desenvolvimento Regional em debate|2024
1 cit.
5
“Photography”: An Introduction
Trans Asia Photography|2022
0 cit.
6
<i>Visual Studies</i> X The Open Eye Gallery: interview with Open Eye Director Sarah Fisher and Curator Mariama Attah
Visual Studies|2022
0 cit.
7
Quem narra um conto, aumenta um ponto: responsabilidade social e escrita colaborativa a partir dos desenhos infanto-juvenis da Guerra do Contestado
Revista NUPEM|2022
0 cit.
8
Narrar o presente, recordar o passado
Public History Weekly|2022
0 cit.
9
Empires of Light: Vision, Visibility and Power in Colonial India by Niharika Dinkar
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide|2023
0 cit.
10
santo "revortado"
DRd - Desenvolvimento Regional em debate|2023
0 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Peter Galison
Woodwell Climate Research Center
2
J. John Lennon
Glasgow Caledonian University
3
W. Keith Edwards
Georgia Institute of Technology
4
Magali Reis
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
5
Katrina Sluis
London South Bank University
6
Michael J. Shapiro
University of Hawaii System
7
William J. Mitchell
University of Chicago
8
Richard Handler
University of Virginia
9
Derek McCormack
University of Oxford
10
Eric T. Meyer
University of California, Berkeley

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century
American Ethnologist|1998
2.3k cit.
2
The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics
Museum Anthropology|1996
1.5k cit.
3
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
Leonardo|1995
1.4k cit.
4
Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec
Anthropological Quarterly|1990
1.1k cit.
5
The Image of Objectivity
Representations|1992
1.1k cit.
6
City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn
Design Issues|1997
819 cit.
7
Dark tourism: the attraction of death and disaster.
ResearchOnline|2000
818 cit.
8
Tradition, Genuine or Spurious
Journal of American Folklore|1984
747 cit.
9
Showing seeing: a critique of visual culture
Journal of Visual Culture|2002
685 cit.
10
JFK and dark tourism: A fascination with assassination
International Journal of Heritage Studies|1996
674 cit.

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