Elizabeth Edwards (historian)

Elizabeth Edwards FBA FRAI
Born	Elizabeth Jane Mary Edwards (1952-02-24) February 24, 1952 (age 72)
Occupation	Historian
Awards	AAA Lifetime Achievement Award J Dudley Johnston Award
Academic work
Discipline	Anthropology
Sub-discipline	Historical Anthropology Visual anthropology
Notable works	The Camera as Historian
Website	Elizabeth Edwards publications on Academia.edu

Elizabeth Edwards, FBA (born 24 February 1952) is a British visual and historical anthropologist.

Career

Born on 24 February 1952, Elizabeth Jane Mary Edwards ^[1] is Professor Emerita of Photographic History at De Montfort University, Curator Emerita at Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. In 2017 she was appointed the Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor at the V&A Research Institute, London. ^[2] Her focus of research is the relationship between photography, history and anthropology, and includes investigations of photography and historical imagination, the social practices of photography, and the materiality of photographs. ^{[3] [4]}

Edwards was previously the Director of the Photographic History Research Centre (PHRC) at De Montfort University, and was the Curator of Photographs at Pitt Rivers Museum and lecturer in visual anthropology at the University of Oxford, ^[5] and professor at the University of the Arts London. ^[3] She was featured as one of the major writers on photography of all time in 'Fifty Key Writers on Photography'. ^[6]

In 2015 Edwards was elected to Fellow of the British Academy. ^[7] She was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for Visual Anthropology (American Anthropological Association) in 2014. ^[6] Edwards is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and was its vice-president between 2009 and 2012. ^[6] She is also a past Chair of the Museum Ethnographers Group. ^[4] In 2020, Edwards was given the J Dudley Johnston Award of the Royal Photographic Society.

Selected publications

• Edwards, Elizabeth (2014), "Between the Local, National, and Transnational: Photographic Recording and Memorializing Desire", in De Cesari, Chiara; Rigney, Ann (eds.), Transnational memory : circulation, articulation, scales, Berlin, ISBN   978-3110359022
• Edwards, Elizabeth (2014), "Photographic Uncertainties: Between Evidence and Reassurance", History and Anthropology, 25 (2), History and Anthropology: 171–188, doi:10.1080/02757206.2014.882834, ISSN   0275-7206, S2CID   144264460
• Durden, Mark, editor (2012), Fifty Key Writers on Photography, Key Guides, Routledge, ISBN   978-0415549448
• Edwards, Elizabeth (2012), The camera as historian: amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918, Objects/histories., Duke University Press, ISBN   978-0822351047
• Edwards, Elizabeth (2010), Raw histories : photographs, anthropology and museums, Materializing culture, Berg, ISBN   9781859734971
• Christopher Morton and Elizabeth Edwards, editors (2009), Photography, Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame, Ashgate, ISBN   978-0-7546-9800-5
• Edwards, Elizabeth (1992), Anthropology and photography, 1860-1920, Yale University Press in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, ISBN   9780300059441

References

1. "Edwards, Prof. Elizabeth Jane Mary, (born 24 Feb. 1952), Research Professor in Photographic History and Director, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, 2011–16, now Professor Emerita". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2015. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U284783 . Retrieved 7 September 2024.
2. "RPS Collection expands the V&A collection of photography" . Retrieved 18 April 2017.
3. Institute of Advanced Study. "Institute of Advanced Study : Professor Elizabeth Edwards". Durham University. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
4. About DMU. "Elizabeth Edwards, Photographic History Research Centre, School of Media and Communication". De Montfort University (DMU). Retrieved 10 December 2016.
5. "Museum staff who contribute to research and academic teaching in the University". Pitt Rivers Museum. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
6. "Elizabeth Edwards | De Montfort University - Academia.edu". dmu.academia.edu. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
7. "Professor Elizabeth Edwards". British Academy. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2016.

External links

• BBC Radio 4 In Our Time The Invention of Photography. Edwards on the expert panel with Simon Schaffer and Alison Morrison-Low.
• Durham University IAS public lecture https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ias/audio/Edwards.mp3
• PhotoCLEC. 'Photographs, Colonial Legacy and Museums in Contemporary European Culture' http://photoclec.dmu.ac.uk