Sarah Elizabeth Lewis
Author, Curator & Professor
Marshall Scholar, Class of 2001 (Oxford University)
“The gravity of this connection between vision and justice is crucial to understand, as we live in a polarized climate in the United States… How we remain connected depends on the function of pictures—increasingly the way that we process worlds unlike our own.”
- Sarah Elizabeth Lewis
ENVISIONING JUSTICE THROUGH ART
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She held curatorial positions at the MoMA in New York and Tate Modern in London before returning to her alma mater as a professor. Her scholarship focuses on portrayals of race in contemporary art and culture, and has been published in a range of journals and museum publications, such as The New Yorker and the MoMA. Lewis founded Vision & Justice, a catalytic civic initiative that generates original research and programs that reveal the foundational role of visual culture in America’s representational democracy. Through institutional collaborations, leadership convenings, publications, and public programs, Vision & Justice serves as an organizer, partner, and resource for today’s leaders—and those to come—in fostering representational excellence. She was also the guest editor of the "Vision & Justice" issue of Aperture which was granted the 2017 Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research from the International Center of Photography.