As already reported here in brief Elizabeth Edwards, who has published extensively over the last 30 years in the areas of photography, history and visual anthropology, will join De Montfort University (DMU) as the first Director of the Photographic History Research Centre.

Many of Professor Edwards’ edited books and monographs – such as Photography and Anthropology (1992), and Raw Histories (2001) – have become required reading across the subjects of photographic history, art history, history, anthropology and the history of science.

Her recent work includes the book, Photography, Anthropology and History (co-edited with Christopher Morton, 2009) and a forthcoming monograph with Duke University Press on photography and the historical imagination in late-Nineteenth- and early-Twentieth-Century England.

She is known equally well for her collaborative efforts to digitise museum collections, most notably through the creation of The Tibet Album, British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950.

Professor Edwards succeeds Emeritus Professor Roger Taylor, who retired last session. Professor Taylor’s research in photographic history prepared the formation the centre, as acknowledged in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.

Professor Edwards currently leads the HERA-funded project, ‘Photographs, Colonial Legacy and Museums in Contemporary European Culture’ (PhotoCLEC), which transfers to DMU with Professor Edwards. The university is also pleased to welcome Matthew Mead, the Research Fellow associated with this project.

Both Edwards and Mead joined the university on 1 June 2011.

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