Book Chapters
“Photographic Migrations: The Tichborne Claimant, Popular Archives, and the ‘Evidence of Camera Pictures,’” in Kelley Wilder and Gregg Mitman, eds. Documenting the World: Film, Photography and the Scientific Record (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 22-44.
Tucker, “Photographic Migrations: The Tichborne Claimant, Popular Archives, and the ‘Evidence of Camera Pictures,’” in Kelley Wilder and Gregg Mitman, eds. Documenting the World: Film, Photography and the Scientific Record (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 22-44.
Academic Awards and Research Fellowships
National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Scholar Award, 2015.
The NEH Public Scholar program, an initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is designed to promote the publication of scholarly nonfiction books for a general audience. On July 29, 2015, I received a grant worth $50,400 to support research for a new project, provisionally titled Caught on Camera: Read more
Environmental History
Boston Globe: What the Clean Air Act Can Teach Us About Reducing Gun Violence
In this op-ed co-authored with Matthew Miller, I highlight the astonishing reality that while our country closely regulates the impact of automobiles on public health and safety, it does not do so for firearms. Why? In 2005, Congress passed an unprecedented law that largely exempts guns from federal consumer-safety laws, Read more
Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture
Connecticut Public: The Scramble: Changing the Gun Conversation
Following a school shooting in Oregon, I was interviewed on Connecticut Public why guns are not regulated as consumer products like any other that poses a threat to human health. “Our nation’s lax attitude toward gun proliferation is partly the result of a Hollywood version of gun technology…[Specifically, the notion Read more
Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture
Inside Sources: The Not-So-Wild West
In this op-ed, I debunk the conventional picture of the Wild West as a place with rampant gun violence. Contrary to its name, the Wild West was the setting for the passage of some of the nation’s first gun-control laws. In 19th-century frontier towns, people couldn’t just walk around with Read more
Media Interviews and Opinions
BBC Radio 3: The Essay: The Tichborne Claimant
I was featured on a BBC program titled, “The Tichborne Claimant: The Five Photographs that (You Didn’t Know) Changed Everything” in which I discussed how a seemingly mundane photograph can have a lasting and powerful historical impact. I told the story of one such photograph taken in 1865 that changed Read more
Book Chapters
“‘Famished for News Pictures’: Mason Jackson, The Illustrated London News, and the Pictorial Spirit,” in Jason E. Hill and Vanessa R. Schwartz, eds. Getting the Picture: The History & Visual Culture of the News (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015), pp. 215-220.
Tucker, “‘Famished for News Pictures’: Mason Jackson, The Illustrated London News, and the Pictorial Spirit,” in Jason E. Hill and Vanessa R. Schwartz, eds. Getting the Picture: The History & Visual Culture of the News (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015), pp. 215-220.
Environmental History
Senior Visiting Scholar, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, May–July 2015.
From May 15-June 27, 2015, I had a visiting research fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre at The Australian National University, Canberra. It was such an honor to meet Will Christie, Desmond Manderson, Alastair Maclachlan and especially Martyn Jolly, a scholar of phenomenal research on photography and magic lantern and Read more
Media Interviews and Opinions
The Moscow Times: Can Culture Transcend Russia-West Conflict?
In an essay co-authored with Aria Danaparamita, I write about the decision by the British Museum to lend Russia one of the most esteemed vestiges of Western art and civilization: the Parthenon marbles. We explore the long-standing role of art in cross-cultural negotiations and political dialogue. Read more in The Read more
