Dr Barnaby Haran teaches and researches American art and visual culture, with an emphasis on photography and radical cultural practices. He is interested in transnational cultural relations, especially the American and Soviet interchanges of the interwar years, which is the subject of his monograph 'Watching the Red Dawn: the American Avant-Garde and the Soviet Union (Manchester University Press, 2016). He has written and delivered papers on the photographer Margaret Bourke-White, the painter Alice Neel, and the curator Jane Heap in relation to politics, work, and gender. His current research concerns radical photography and racial injustice.
Experience
2014–present
Senior Lecturer in American Arts, University of Hull
Education
2008
University College London, PhD
Publications
2022
The Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression, Arts
2020
Documenting an “Age-Long Struggle”: Paul Strand’s Time in the American Southwest, Art History
2019
“We Cover New York”: Protest, Neighborhood, and Street Photography in the (Workers Film and) Photo League, Arts
2017
Shaping the Mass Mind: Frederick Kiesler and the Psychology of Selling, in Alison Clarke and Elana Shapira, eds., Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture , Bloomsbury
2016
Watching the Red Dawn: the American Avant-Garde and the Soviet Union , Manchester University Press
2015
Tractor Factory Facts: Margaret Bourke-White’s Eyes on Russia and the Romance of Machines in the Five-Year Plan, Oxford Art Journal
2013
Re-New Marxist Art History, edited by Warren Carter, Barnaby Haran and Frederick J. Schwartz , Art/Books
2013
Magic Windows: Friedrich Kiesler and Department Store Constructivism, in John Welchman, ed., Sculpture and the Vitrine , Ashgate
Grants and Contracts
2021
Learning from Scottsboro: Exploring Past and Present American Racial Injustices in Collaboration with Local Schools.
Role:
PI
Funding Source:
Ferens Education Trust
2019
Representing the Scottsboro Boys: Labor Defender and the Racial Politics of Radical Photography
Role:
PI
Funding Source:
British Academy
2016
Skyscrapers and Scrapheaps: American Photographic Culture in the Early Years of the Great Depression, 1929-1933