
Sarah Lewis
Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Founder, The Vision & Justice Project
Sarah Lewis is an associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and African American studies at Harvard University, and founder of The Vision and Justice Project. Her research focuses on the intersection of visual representation, racial justice, and democracy in America. Lewis authored The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery and Carrie Mae Weems, which won the 2021 Photography Network Book Prize, and guest edited the “Vision and Justice” issue of Aperture magazine, which received the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research. A former curator at MoMA and the Tate Modern in London, her board service includes Thames and Hudson, Creative Time, Harvard Design Press, and Civil War History journal.
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