Laura Katzman

Laura Katzman earned a PhD in art history from Yale University. Since 2007 she has been a professor of art history at James Madison University and in 2018-2019 served as the Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art at the Free University Berlin. An internationally recognized scholar of documentary photography in the continental United States and in Puerto Rico, Dr. Katzman is the recipient of grants from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her publications include the award-winning Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modern Times (2000); Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam (2014); and The Museum of the Old Colony: An Art Installation by Pablo Delano (2023). She has been a guest curator at the Harvard Art Museums, the Phillips Collection, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the American University Museum, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the Jewish Museum, New York.