Kelann Currie-Williams

Kelann Currie-Williams (she/they) is a writer, visual culture scholar, and oral historian based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. They are currently a PhD candidate in the Humanities Program at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, working at the intersections of Visual Culture Studies, History, Black Studies, and Cultural Studies. Kelann’s research focuses on the histories of image-making and the photographic preservation practices of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in Canada during the 20th century. She is a core member and student affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS), an affiliate of the Access in the Making (AIM) lab, as well as the Kitchen Table Collective. Kelann’s writings have appeared in Urban History Review, the Canadian Journal of History, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Philosophy of Photography, and the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.