Sarah Lewis
About Sarah Lewis
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is an associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and African American studies at Harvard University and the founder of The Vision & Justice Project. Her research focuses on the intersection of visual representation, racial justice, and democracy in the United States from the nineteenth century through the present. Lewis’s books and edited volumes include The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, Carrie Mae Weems, which won the 2021 Photography Network Book Prize, and “Vision & Justice” by Aperture magazine which received the 2017 Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research from the International Center of Photography. Her forthcoming publications include Caucasian War: How Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press, 2023), Vision & Justice (One World/Random House, 2024), and Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law (2023). Lewis serves on the boards of Thames & Hudson Inc., Creative Time, Harvard Design Press, and Civil War History journal, and is a member of the Yale Honorary Degrees Committee. She received the Freedom Scholar Award, presented by The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and the 2022 Arthur Danto/ASA Prize from the American Philosophical Association. https://sarahelizabethlewis.com