Board Members

Katherine Bussard
Co-Chair

Katherine A. Bussard is the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum. Her most recent exhibition and publication is Life Magazine and the Power of Photography.

Anne Cross
Co-Chair

Anne Cross currently serves as Assistant Teaching Professor of American Art at Penn State University. Her research focuses on photography and mass media of the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras. 

Lauren Graves
Speaker Series Coordinator

Lauren Graves is an Assistant Curator at the Boston Athenaeum. She specializes in American photography and received a PhD in Art History from Boston University.

Alisha Chipman
Grants & Development Coordinator

Alisha Chipman is Senior Photograph Conservator at The Library of Congress. She received a Master’s in Art Conservation from the University of Delaware and a Master’s in Art History from Hunter College. Her current research focuses on the technical history of photomechanical prints.

Candice Jansen
Awards Coordinator

Candice Jansen is a memorist in photography and a New Archival Visions Digital Curatorial Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape. 

Josie Johnson
Conference & Symposium Liaison

Josie Johnson is the Capital Group Foundation Curatorial Fellow for Photography at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. She received her PhD from Brown University in 2020.

Kat Kiernan
Social Media Coordinator

Kat Kiernan is a photographer, writer, and former Editor-in-Chief of Don't Take Pictures magazine (2013-2021). Her current research examines photography's role in the shaping of modern mythology.

Chaya Howell
Website Manager

Chaya Howell is the Founder for Marginalized in Mind, and the Director of Operations for the graduate fashion photography program at the School of Visual Arts.

Maura McCreight
Emerging Professionals Liaison

Maura McCreight is a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center, CUNY, specializing in the history of photography and art of the Maghreb. 

Sarah Parsons
Treasurer

Sarah Parsons is a professor at York University and co-editor of the journal Photography & Culture.  Her current research examines how early photography shaped ideas about privacy.

Sarah M. Miller
Secretary

Sarah M. Miller is on the Art History faculty of Mills College at Northeastern University and the author of Documentary in Dispute (2020). She holds a PhD from University of Chicago.

Jessica Stark
Membership Coordinator

Jessica Stark is a historian of photography and modern art. She holds a PhD from Harvard University and is currently the Research Fellow at the Vision & Justice Initiative.

Past Board Members

Molly Kalkstein, Grants & Development Coordinator , 2021-2024

Stephanie Burchett, Website Manager, 2021-2024

Caroline Riley, Co-Chair, 2021-2024

Yechen Zhao, DEI Coordinator, 2021-2024

Taylor Bradley, Social Media Coordinator, 2020-2023

Monica Bravo, Co-Chair, 2020-2023

Susan Laxton, Secretary, 2020-2023

Catherine Zuromskis, Awards Coordinator, 2020-2023

Catherine Barth, Outreach and Membership Coordinator, 2020-2022

Ariel Evans, Treasurer, 2020-2022

Andrés Zervigón, Conference and Symposium Liaison, 2020-2022

Organizing Committee, 2019–2020

Kate Palmer Albers

Monica Bravo

Ariel Evans

Susan Laxton

Andrés Zervigón

Catherine Zuromskis