Articles
“The Queen’s Mark: Guns, Photography, and the Visual Abstraction of Precision,” Victorian Review 48:1 (Spring 2022).
“The Queen’s Mark: Guns, Photography, and the Visual Abstraction of Precision,” Victorian Review 48:1 (Spring 2022). Brief excerpt: When we think today about Victorian photography, certain categories spring to mind: portraits, mug shots, landscapes, metropolitan and colonial scenes—categories defined by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. To approach photographs Read more…
Academic Awards and Research Fellowships
Creative Campus Initiative Award
In December 2021, I received a $3,600 award from the Creative Campus Initiative (CCI) committee to support two artists engaging with a new course to be offered soon. Titled, “Reenacting Justice: Documentary Theater Workshop on U.S. Guns and Gun Violence,” the course will be co-hosted by the Theater Department and co-taught Read more…
Edited Journals
Tucker, co-ed. with Heike Baur, Melina Pappademos, & Katie Sutton, Radical History Review 142: “Visual Archives of Sex” (January 2022).
Heike Bauer, Melina Pappademos, Katie Sutton, & Jennifer Tucker, co-editors, Radical History Review 142: “Visual Archives of Sex” (January 2022). Editors’ Introduction: “Visual Histories of Sex: Collecting, Curating, Archiving,” Radical History Review 142 (2022): 1-18. [Free online through Duke Univ. Press]. The contributors to ‘The Visual Archives of Sex’ theme Read more…
Edited Books
Tucker, co-edited with Jennifer Mnookin, The Photography and Law Reader (New York: Routledge, under contract).
Co-editors: Jennifer Tucker & Jennifer Mnookin, Professor and Dean, UCLA School of Law. Despite the importance of photography in the history of law, few photography students are trained in how to find and use primary and secondary legal sources, and few law students learn about the historical, technological and cultural Read more…
Art, Scientific Discovery, and Visual Imagination
Advisory Committee Member, Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA initiative. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty, and Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
Art x Science x LA: A series of exhibitions and public programs scheduled to open in 2024 on the topic of The Future in Our Past: Visualizing Human Evolution, 1850 to the Present.
Art, Scientific Discovery, and Visual Imagination
“Law and New Media” Conference, The Huntington, San Marino, CA, Sept. 16-17, 2022.
On September 16–17, 2022, I will participate in a conference hosted by The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens on the topic of “Law and New Media.” The conference will convene leading academics and practitioners for a far-reaching conversation about the ways in which technologies of print media, photography, Read more…
