
Tina Campt
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.