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 an Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and 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. 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.