Laura Wexler

Laura Wexler is the Charles A. Farnam Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University, where she directs undergraduate American Studies and co-directs the Public Humanities Program. She founded the Photographic Memory Workshop and leads the Photogrammar Project—an NEH-supported digital platform for 180,000 Depression-era photographs. Her scholarship examines photography's role in constructing gender, race, and nationalism.

Author of the award-winning Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (2000), she co-edits the forthcoming Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography. Current projects include Photography After Freedom on post-Reconstruction visual culture and The State of the Album anthology. Her work intersects with FemTechNet and public humanities initiatives.