Lecture
Time:
Canceled: Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholar Lecture: Dr. Christina Hult Lewis
Date:
5:30 pm
Richards Hall
Room: 15
560 Stadium Dr
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: RH
Contact:
School of Art, Art History & Design, (402) 472-5522, schoolaahd@unl.edu
Dr. Christine Hult-Lewis is the interim pictorial curator at the
Bancroft Library, the special collections library at UC Berkeley. She holds a
BA from UC Berkeley, where she majored in Humanities with an emphasis in
American art and literature, and a PhD in American Studies from Boston
University with an emphasis in photographic history. Dr. Hult-Lewis has
taught classes on the history of photography and photographs of the American
West at Boston University and UC Berkeley, and has written on nineteenth
century culture and photography. At Bancroft, she curated several exhibitions
on California painting, the history of photobooks, community and identity in
western photography, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
She co-authored the award-winning study of nineteenth-century landscape
photographer Carleton Watkins, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth
Photographs (Getty, 2011), and her most recent publication is an essay on
postwar women’s photobooks in the award-winning book What They Saw:
Historic Photobooks by Women (10x10Photobooks, 2021).
Short Bio: Dr. Christine Hult-Lewis is the interim pictorial curator at the
Bancroft Library, the special collections library at UC Berkeley. She has
taught the history of photography and the American West at UC Berkeley and
Boston University, and co-authored the award-winning Carleton Watkins: The
Complete Mammoth Photographs (Getty, 2011). Her most recent publication is an
essay on post-WWII women’s photography in What They Saw: Historic
Photobooks by Women (10x10Photobooks, 2021).
Bancroft Library, the special collections library at UC Berkeley. She holds a
BA from UC Berkeley, where she majored in Humanities with an emphasis in
American art and literature, and a PhD in American Studies from Boston
University with an emphasis in photographic history. Dr. Hult-Lewis has
taught classes on the history of photography and photographs of the American
West at Boston University and UC Berkeley, and has written on nineteenth
century culture and photography. At Bancroft, she curated several exhibitions
on California painting, the history of photobooks, community and identity in
western photography, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
She co-authored the award-winning study of nineteenth-century landscape
photographer Carleton Watkins, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth
Photographs (Getty, 2011), and her most recent publication is an essay on
postwar women’s photobooks in the award-winning book What They Saw:
Historic Photobooks by Women (10x10Photobooks, 2021).
Short Bio: Dr. Christine Hult-Lewis is the interim pictorial curator at the
Bancroft Library, the special collections library at UC Berkeley. She has
taught the history of photography and the American West at UC Berkeley and
Boston University, and co-authored the award-winning Carleton Watkins: The
Complete Mammoth Photographs (Getty, 2011). Her most recent publication is an
essay on post-WWII women’s photography in What They Saw: Historic
Photobooks by Women (10x10Photobooks, 2021).
