Geoffrey Batchen   Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of the History of Photography at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research on photography includes three books: Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography; Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History; and Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance. Elisabeth Biondi   Elisabeth Biondi is Visuals Editor at The New Yorker where she has helped to shape the magazine’s acclaimed reputation for photography. Formerly Head of Photography at Stern, she has worked with photographers from around the world. In 2004 she served as Chair of the Judges of the World Press Photo Awards. David Campbell   David Campbell is Professor of Cultural and Political Geography at Durham University, UK. He has published numerous essays on issues in global geopolitics, US foreign policy and visual culture, including on the representation of atrocity, famine and war. He delivered the Sem Presser Lecture at the 2005 World Press Photo Awards. He also co-curated Imaging Famine, a photographic exhibition at the Guardian Newsroom in London which was the start of an ongoing project on media representations of famine. D.J. Clark   D.J. Clark is Lecturer and Program Leader on the MA in Photography at the University of Bolton and a photojournalist represented by Panos Pictures. He is a former Winston Churchill Traveling Fellow for his research in Bangladesh and Ethiopia and has undertaken extensive research on photographing famine in China. He was also a curator of Imaging Famine. Mick Gidley   Mick Gidley, Emeritus Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds, has published many books on American Indians and representation in America, including The Vanishing Race, With One Sky Above Us; American Photography, Representing Others: White Views of Indigenous Peoples; and Edward S. Curtis and The North American Indian, Incorporated. Philip Gourevitch   Philip Gourevitch is editor of The Paris Review and long-time staff writer for The New Yorker. His first book, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda won major prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He is also author of A Cold Case, an account of a three-decades-long investigation of a double homicide in New York City. Marianne Hirsch   Marianne Hirsch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her books on photography include Family Frames Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory, and The Familial Gaze. She also writes on Holocaust memory, and has published Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust. Alfredo Jaar   Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker whose work has been shown extensively around the world. Major solo exhibitions include the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Whitechapel in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. He has been a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellow. Susan Meiselas   Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos. Her awards include the Robert Capa Gold Medal for ‘outstanding courage and reporting’ in Nicaragua; the Leica Award for Excellence; the Engelhard Award from the Institute of Contemporary Art; the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for coverage of Latin America; and the Hasselblad Foundation Photography prize. Among her books: Carnival Strippers; Nicaragua; El Salvador: The Work of 30 Photographers; Chile from Within; Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History; and Encounters with the Dani. She was made a MacArthur Fellow in 1992. Nancy K. Miller   Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her most recent books are But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives and the co-edited anthology Extremities: Trauma, Testimony and Community. David Nasaw   David Nasaw is Distinguished Professor of History and Director for the Center for Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include The Chief: Life and Times of William Randolph Hearst; Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements; Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in United States; and a forthcoming biography of Andrew Carnegie. Lorie Novak   Lorie Novak is Professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her photographs, installations and internet projects have appeared in numerous exhibitions, including International Center of Photography; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MOMA; ArtSway, England; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; The Smithsonian; and The Jewish Museum, NY. Her ongoing Collected Visions Internet project, one of the earliest interactive sites, uses the Web to create a public archive of personal stories and images and examines how photographs shape our memory. Griselda Pollock   Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds, UK. Among her many books are Work and the Image, with Valerie Mainz; Looking Back to the Future: Essays by Griselda Pollock from the 1990s; Differencing the Canon: Feminism and the Histories of Art; and, forthcoming, The Case Against Van Gogh: Cities and Countries of Modernism. Samantha Power   Samantha Power is Professor of Human Rights Practice at the Kennedy School of Government. Her book “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award, among others, and her New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur the 2005 National Magazine Award for best reporting. From 1993-1996 Power reported on wars in the former Yugoslavia for the U.S. News and World Report, the Boston Globe and the Economist. Jay Prosser   Jay Prosser is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of Leeds, UK. His essays on photographers Nan Goldin, Gillian Wearing, Del LaGrace Volcano, and on Roland Barthes have appeared in various journals. His most recent book is Light in the Dark Room: Photography and Loss. Fred Ritchin   Fred Ritchin is director of PixelPress and Associate Professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. His 1996 Web project, Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace, in collaboration with photographer Gilles Peress, was nominated by the New York Times for a Pulitzer Prize. He is author of many books, including In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography and the forthcoming Reinventing Photography. Russell Roberts   Russell Roberts is Head of Photography and Senior Curator of Photographs at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, UK. His numerous exhibitions include: Memory & The Archive - Photographs, Images, Documents; In Visible Light: Photography & Classification in Art, Science & The Everyday; News Stories - Media Histories: Specimens & Marvels; Unknown Pleasures; and A Gentle Madness: The Photographs of Tony Ray-Jones. Karen Robinson   Karen Robinson is Director of the Human Rights Education Program of Amnesty International USA. She manages the Educators' Network, which liaises with schools, universities and human rights education training programs around the world to promote understanding of human rights at every level of society. Aoibheann Sweeney   Aoibheann Sweeney is Deputy Director at the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She earned her BA from Harvard University and her MFA from University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Writing Fellow. Ellen Tolmie   Ellen Tolmie has directed photography operations at UNICEF - the United Nations Children's Fund - since 1992 where she is responsible for promoting the use of images to advocate for children and creating guidelines in line with child and other human rights. UNICEF’s photography collection – plus 25,000 images currently in use - leads the UN system in the number and range of coverage on humanitarian themes. Brian Wallis   Brian Wallis is Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator at the International Center of Photography in New York where he has organized numerous exhibitions including Inconvenient Evidence: Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib. Among his many books are Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America; Constructing Masculinity; and Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation. Sylvia Wolf   Sylvia Wolf is Adjunct Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, where she is the first curator to focus solely on photography. Her exhibitions include the work of Susan Meiselas and Vik Muniz among others. Her books include Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, Michal Rovner: The Space Between, and Ed Ruscha and Photography (also an exhibition). Barbie Zelizer   Barbie Zelizer is Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. Her books include the award-winning Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye: Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory; Journalism After September 11 (with Stuart Allan); and Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime.