Meet the Contributors

Founder, Maura McCreight

Maura created Open and Accessible Photographic History: An Ongoing Collaborative Annotated Resource Guide for Photo Historians out of her excitement and passion for the growing availability and accessibility for digitized photographic resources. As a photo researcher using archives from three different continents for her dissertation, she wanted to share some of her discoveries and invite others in to do the same (whether photo historians or otherwise!).

Maura is Ph.D. Candidate in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, with a focus on the history of photography and the Maghrib. She is currently the Emerging Scholar Liaison for the Photography Network and Manifold Graduate Fellow at the Graduate Center. She is a lecturer in the Art Department at Brooklyn College and the Humanities Department at New York City College of Technology and has taught both graduate and undergraduate level courses on Islamic art, the history of photography, modern art, and several art history surveys. Her research has been supported by the Image Center (Toronto), the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). Her dissertation retraces photographs of women during the Algerian War for Independence (1954–1962) using methods that mimic the conflict’s scattered visual archival existence.