Kris Belden-Adams
Associate Professor of Art of Art History
Phone Number:
Email: kkbelden@olemiss.edu
http://art.olemiss.edu/2013/08/19/dr-kris-belden-adams/

Key Words: Art History, history of photography, journalism

Research Description: Dr. Kris Belden-Adams received her PhD in Modern and contemporary art history with a specialization in the history of photography from the City University of New York Graduate Center. She also has an MA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism with a concentration in contemporary art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Belden-Adams specializes in the history and theory of photography. She is the author of Photography, Temporality, Modernity: Time Warped (2019, Routledge) and Photography, Eugenics, ‘Aristogenics’: Picturing Privilege (2020, Routledge). She also is the editor and contributor of two chapters to the volume Photography and Failure: One Medium’s Incessant Entanglement with Mishaps, Flops, and Disappointments (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017), and the co-editor of the forthcoming volume ‘These Are Our Stories’: Diverse Histories, Narratives, and Identities in Photographic Albums (Routledge, 2021). Prior to completing her PhD in art history, she spent more than a decade working as an editor/designer at daily newspapers including the Detroit Free Press and The New York Times.

Honors Theses:

Pillow, Stephen Baylor (2021) Art and AIDS: Viral Strategies for Visibility (full text)

Moorman, Grace (2020) Talent Against Tradition: The Art and Life of Kate Freeman Clark (full text)

Creel, Zachary (2017) Taste-Making Mechanisms in the Contemporary Art World. (full text)

Jessie, Smith (2017) A Picture of Health: Art and Medicine in the Lives of Late 19th-Century Artists Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh. (full text)