Shawn Michelle Smith is currently Associate Professor for both Visual and Critical Studies and Art History-Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  (since 2006) Educational Background: BA, 1987, Stanford University; MA, 1992, and PhD, 1994, University of California, San Diego. Books: Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture; American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture. Publications: African American Review, The Yale Journal of Criticism, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts. Awards: Tanner Humanities Center Fellowship, University of Utah; Irene Diamond Foundation Fellowship, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Center for the Humanities Fellowship, Oregon State University.