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Barnaby Haran

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Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Hull

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
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Terra Foundation