Dr. Annie Rudd
Positions
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts, Department of Communication, Media and Film
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
Ph.D. Communications, Columbia University, 2014
M.Phil. Communications, Columbia University, 2012
M.A. Communications, Columbia University, 2009
B.A. English, Book and Media Studies, American Studies , University of Toronto, 2007
Biography
I am a photography historian and historian of media. My research concerns the ways people of the past have adopted, reworked, discussed, and imagined the possibilities of imaging technologies, especially cameras. This subject is at the crux of my forthcoming book, Candid: A History of Unposed Photography (to be published by Yale University Press in 2027). My research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Photography & Culture, photographies, and Information and Culture as well as in several edited collections, and my writing has also been published by institutions including the Nieman Journalism Lab, the International Center of Photography, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
I have researched and taught in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary since 2016. Prior to this, I worked as a Core Lecturer at Columbia University, teaching undergraduate courses on the history of political philosophy as part of the university's Core Curriculum. I received my PhD in Communications from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism in 2014, and my BA in English, American Studies, and Book and Media Studies from the University of Toronto in 2007.
Research
Areas of Research
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Publications
- "Cameras," in Information: A Historical Companion. Annie Rudd. Princeton University Press. 349-52. (2021)
- “Good Subjects, Bad Objects: Posing Devices in the Nineteenth-Century Commercial Studio". Annie Rudd. photographies. 195-218. (2020)
- "Photographic Privilege at the World's Columbian Exposition," in Ubiquity: Photography's Multitudes. Annie Rudd. Leuven University Press/Cornell University Press. 47-70. (2022)
- "Victorians Living in Public: Cartes de Visite as 19th-Century Social Media" . Annie Rudd. Photography & Culture 9.3. 195-217. (2016)
- "Inattentive Subjects: The Emergence of a Photojournalistic Norm" . Annie Rudd. Journalists and Knowledge Practices: Histories of Observing the Everyday in the Newspaper Age, ed. Hansjakob Ziemer . 180-204. (2022)
- "Erich Salomon's Candid Camera and the Framing of Political Authority" . Annie Rudd. Information & Culture, Vol. 52, No. 4. 412-435. (2017)
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