Jordan Bear

Jordan Bear is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. His research explores the intersection of visual representation, knowledge, and belief, with particular expertise in 19th-century European art and the history of photography.

• University of Toronto
• Department of Art History
• Associate Professor

Key research areas include:

• Historical epistemology of photography
• Visual representation of the past
• Trust in 19th-century visual media
• Photographic manipulation theories

His publications span topics from Victorian photographic trickery to historiography in visual arts. Notable awards include the Historians of British Art Book Award and Northeast Victorian Studies Association recognition.

• Winner: Historians of British Art Book Award (2016)
• Honorable Mention: Sonia Rudikoff Prize (2016)

Bear has taught graduate courses on photographic manipulation and undergraduate courses covering modernism, landscape painting, and the history of photography. He previously served as Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies (2013–15).