Assistant Professor

Art History

Ph.D. Boston University

Kate Palmer Albers is Assistant Professor in the Art History Division at the University of Arizona, with a specialty in the History and Theory of Photography. Prior to joining the UA faculty, she taught at the Massachusetts College of Art and Boston University, and held curatorial positions in the photography departments at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her research focuses on the relationship between photography, memory, and history, with specific attention to photographic technologies and ways in which photographs are structured and compiled to produce knowledge. She has related interests in questions of exhibition and display; art and commerce; and museum and institutional histories. Her current book project is "It's Not an Archive": Photography, History, and the Limits of Knowledge , which focuses on the photographic constructions of Christian Boltanski, Gerhard Richter, and Dinh Q. Lê. Other current projects include curating a show on the intersection of contemporary photography, landscape, technology and mapping and studying the photographic response to September 11th.

e-mail: kpalbers@email.arizona.edu
office: 520.626.4865

Art Bldg, Room 292