- Senior Lecturer in American Cultural History, University of Hull
Dr Barnaby Haran teaches and researches American art and visual culture, with an emphasis on photography and radical cultural practices. He is interested in transnational cultural relations, especially the American and Soviet interchanges of the interwar years, which is the subject of his monograph 'Watching the Red Dawn: the American Avant-Garde and the Soviet Union (Manchester University Press, 2016). He has written and delivered papers on the photographer Margaret Bourke-White, the painter Alice Neel, and the curator Jane Heap in relation to politics, work, and gender. His current research concerns radical photography and racial injustice.
Experience
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2014–presentSenior Lecturer in American Cultural History, University of Hull
Education
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2008University College London, PhD
Publications
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2022The Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression, Arts
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2020Documenting an “Age-Long Struggle”: Paul Strand’s Time in the American Southwest, Art History
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2019“We Cover New York”: Protest, Neighborhood, and Street Photography in the (Workers Film and) Photo League, Arts
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2017Shaping the Mass Mind: Frederick Kiesler and the Psychology of Selling, in Alison Clarke and Elana Shapira, eds., Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture , Bloomsbury
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2016Watching the Red Dawn: the American Avant-Garde and the Soviet Union , Manchester University Press
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2015Tractor Factory Facts: Margaret Bourke-White’s Eyes on Russia and the Romance of Machines in the Five-Year Plan, Oxford Art Journal
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2013Re-New Marxist Art History, edited by Warren Carter, Barnaby Haran and Frederick J. Schwartz , Art/Books
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2013Magic Windows: Friedrich Kiesler and Department Store Constructivism, in John Welchman, ed., Sculpture and the Vitrine , Ashgate
Grants and Contracts
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2021Learning from Scottsboro: Exploring Past and Present American Racial Injustices in Collaboration with Local Schools.
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- Ferens Education Trust
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2019Representing the Scottsboro Boys: Labor Defender and the Racial Politics of Radical Photography
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- British Academy
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2016Skyscrapers and Scrapheaps: American Photographic Culture in the Early Years of the Great Depression, 1929-1933
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- Terra Foundation
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