Student Affiliate
Kelann Currie-Williams is a PhD student in the Humanities Interdisciplinary Program (HUMA) at Concordia University and a 2023-2024 COHDS Scholar-in-Residence. Their SSHRC-funded doctoral research focuses on the image-making and photographic preservation histories of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in Canada from the late 19th to late 20th centuries, and the scenes of migration, homemaking, community-building, and political mobilization that those photographs depict. Their writing has appeared in Urban History Review, the Canadian Journal of History, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, and in Philosophy of Photography.