Elspeth Brown,

Historian: markets, visual culture, gender, sexuality

Projects

These projects are either collaborative, on-going research clusters or represent emerging areas of scholarly inquiry, too inchoate at this stage to have made their way to publication. I'm usually at the paper-presenting stage with the 'projects'; ideally, eventually, they make their way to publication (in which case, they migrate to the research page).

The three main projects I am working on are indicated on the right, and can be accessed there. They are: research on George Platt Lynes (part of the models project); oral histories of partners of transmen (see Transpartners); and the Photographic Situation Project, a 3 year colloboration with photo scholars based in Canada, the US, and the UK.

Here are some other projects:

The Toronto Photography Seminar is a group of scholars and curators from Ontario institutions who have been meeting regularly since 2004 to read, produce, and edit collaborative research concerning the history and theory of photography. 

The History and Theory Working Group was a project of the History Department at the University of Toronto, for which I was an original co-organizer, encouraging experimental approaches to historical thinking. It ran from 2009-2011.