Jessica Williams Stark’s research focuses on modern African art and the global histories of photography. She earned her PhD in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University and was most recently the McCormick Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Photography and Lecturer in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. Stark’s research has been generously supported by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Fulbright Program, the Peter E. Palmquist Foundation Fund for Historical Photographic Research, and the Foreign Language and Area Studies Program. Her work can be found in October, Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges, Urban Exile: Theories, Methods, Research Practices, and Safundi, and is forthcoming in a special issue of History of Photography dedicated to studies on exile and migration. Stark serves on the board of the Photography Network, an organization that fosters discussion, research, and new approaches to the study and practice of photography, and is currently the Research Fellow at the Vision & Justice Initiative.

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• Anne Fischer (1914–1986) (Jessica Williams Stark)