Elizabeth Jane Mary Edwards, (born 24 February 1952) is a visual and historical anthropologist.

Career

Born on 24 February 1952, Elizabeth Jane Mary Edwards is Professor Emerita of Photographic History at De Montfort University; Curator Emerita at Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford; Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford; and Honorary Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. In 2017 she was appointed the Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor at the V&A Research Institute, London. Her focus of research is the relationship between photography, history and anthropology, and includes investigations of photography and historical imagination, the social practices of photography, and the materiality of photographs. Edwards was previously the Director of the Photographic History Research Centre (PHRC) at De Montfort University, and was the Curator of Photographs at Pitt Rivers Museum and lecturer in visual anthropology at the University of Oxford, and Professor at the University of the Arts London. She was featured as one of the major writers on photography of all time in 'Fifty Key Writers on Photography'. In 2015 Edwards was elected to Fellow of the British Academy. She was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for Visual Anthropology (

American Anthropological Association The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 10,000 members, the association, based in Arlington, Virginia, includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, ...

) in 2014. Edwards is a Fellow of the

Royal Anthropological Institute The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biolo ...

, and was vice-president between 2009 and 2012. She is also a past Chair of the Museum Ethnographers Group. In 2020, Edwards was given the J Dudley Johnston Award of the

Royal Photographic Society The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, commonly known as the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), is one of the world's oldest photographic societies. It was founded in London, England, in 1853 as the Photographic Society of London with ...

Selected publications

* * *Durden, Mark, editor (2012), ''Fifty Key Writers on Photography'', Key Guides, Routledge, * * *Christopher Morton and Elizabeth Edwards, editors (2009), ''Photography, Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame'', Ashgate, *

References

External links

* BBC Radio 4

In Our Time In Our Time may refer to: * ''In Our Time'' (1944 film), a film starring Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid * ''In Our Time'' (1982 film), a Taiwanese anthology film featuring director Edward Yang; considered the beginning of the "New Taiwan Cinema" * ''In ...

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Edwards on the expert panel with Simon Schaffer and Alison Morrison-Low. * Durham University IAS public lecture https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ias/audio/Edwards.mp3 * PhotoCLEC. 'Photographs, Colonial Legacy and Museums in Contemporary European Culture' http://photoclec.dmu.ac.uk {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Elizabeth British women historians Academics of De Montfort University Photography academics Academics of the University of the Arts London Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Fellows of the British Academy Living people 1952 births Historians of photography