Emily Morgan

Assistant Professor, Art and Visual Culture (Contemporary Art History)

Education

Ph.D. in Art History, University of Arizona, 2012
MA in Art History, University of Arizona, 2006
BA in English, Tufts University, 2000
BFA in Studio Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2000

Research Interests

History of photography, especially circulation and distribution of photographic imagery, with attention to how photographic meaning shifts and accrues as images circulate in publications, change hands among users, or are appropriated to new ends. Particular interest in circulation of photographs addressing difficult topics, including poverty; war, conflict and violence; pornography; and animal slaughter.

Current Projects

Research focused on photographs of the Midwestern meatpacking industry

Current Scholarship

• "Striking Images: Photographs of Iowa Packinghouse Labor Conflict, 1948-1960.” Annals of Iowa 77:2 (Spring 2018): 151-189., 03/01/2018

  Annals of Iowa 77:2 (Spring 2018): 151-189.

• Organizer and Chair, CAA panel "Histories of Fake News" , 02/24/2018

  Session of the College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA

• Organizer and Chair, SECAC panel "Beastly Spirits and Spirited Beasts", 10/26/2017

  Panel chair, SECAC Conference, Columbus, OH

• “Photography and the Rise of a Global Trade in Meat,” presented at European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art, 06/09/2017

  Presented at “Food, Glorious Food,” Annual Conference of the European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art (ESNA), Antwerp, Belgium

• Iowa State University Faculty Foreign Travel Grant, 05/01/2017

  Funds awarded for travel to Annual Conference of the European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art (ESNA), Antwerp, Belgium

• Grants to Scholars, Friends of the Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 04/15/2017

  Funds awarded for travel to Madison, WI, for study of archival material related to the American meat-packing industry

• "Waterloo Packer: Sanitizing Slaughter," presented at SECAC, 10/20/2016

  Presented at The World in the Frame: Photography’s Inclusions and Exclusions, session of SECAC, Roanoke, VA

• Research Grant, Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, Iowa State University, 04/15/2016

  Funds awarded for travel to Chicago, IL, for study of archival material related to the American meat-packing industry

• "Travels in the Sanitary Landscape: St. Louis and Chicago, 1904," presented at the College Art Association Annual Conference, 02/03/2016

  Presented at Something in the Dirt: Discourses of Hygiene, Health, and Progress in the North American Landscape, session of the College Art Association Conference, Washington, D.C.

• Research Grant for Authors, State Historical Society of Iowa, 04/01/2015

  Funds awarded for travel to sites throughout Iowa, for study of archival material related to the Iowa meat-packing industry

• Street Life in London: Context and Commentary. Edinburgh / Boston: MuseumsEtc., 09/01/2014

  The book focuses on an 1877-78 photographically-illustrated publication by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith, Street Life in London.  The book addresses the evolution of street photography from static typological imagery to more fluid, documentary-style images. 

• "Preface," Street Life in London, by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith.  Rpt. Edinburgh / Boston: MuseumsEtc. , 09/01/2014