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Tina Campt

Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities, Professor of Modern Culture and Media
tina_campt@brown.edu
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The Sojourner Project
At the Cogut Institute Humanities Initiative Scholar; Director, Black Visualities Initiative

Biography

Tina Campt was Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media from 2019 to 2022. Campt is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art. One of the founding researchers in Black European Studies, her early work theorized gender, racial, and diasporic formation in black communities in Europe, focusing on the role of vernacular photography in processes of historical interpretation. Her books include: Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (University Michigan Press, 2004), Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (Duke University Press, 2012), and Listening to Images (Duke University Press, 2017). She held faculty positions at the Technical University of Berlin, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Duke University, and Barnard College, and has served as a Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre at the University of Johannesburg. At the Cogut Institute, she led the Black Visualities Initiative.

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Brown University Library selects the Sojourner Project for its Digital Publications Initiative

The Sojourner Project foregrounds dialogues on blackness, anti-black violence, and black futurity in the twenty-first century. Structured as a digital academy that intentionally aims to exceed the literal and figurative walls of the university, The Sojourner Project convenes transnational and diasporic conversations, workshops, and art activations that create multi-directional encounters with histories of struggle and practices of refusal that have emerged in different black communities.
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