Elspeth Brown
Elspeth H. Brown is Professor of History at the University of Toronto and Associate Vice-Principal Research at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her research focuses on modern queer and trans history; the history and theory of photography; and the history of US capitalism. She is the author of Work! A Queer History of Modeling (Duke University, 2019); co-editor of “Queering Photography,” a special issue of Photography and Culture (2014); and Feeling Photography (Duke, 2014), among other books. She has published in GLQ, TSQ; Gender and History; American Quarterly; Radical History Review; Photography and Culture; Feminist Studies; Aperture; No More Potlucks, and others. She is Director of the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, a multi-year and public digital humanities research initiative focusing on gay, queer, and trans life stories, using new methodologies in digital history, collaborative research, and archival practice. At the University of Toronto, she is also Faculty Lead for the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative. She is an active volunteer and former President of the Board for The ArQuives.