Carl Fuldner

Carl Fuldner serves as an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH) at the University of Chicago. Prior to this position, he taught at the University of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design, and Western Colorado University, leveraging over fifteen years of professional experience at major cultural institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery, and Smart Museum of Art.

He earned his PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago in 2018.

Fuldner's research critically examines the history of photography through lenses of environmental toxicology and art-science intersections. His current scholarly focus explores environmental aesthetics, pollution, and public health narratives in late nineteenth-century and postwar contexts, particularly investigating how lens-based technologies reshape human perception of ecological systems. This work directly informs his Spring 2025 course Photography and Political Ecology, which analyzes photography's role in global environmental movements since the 1960s through frameworks of environmental justice and decolonial perspectives.