Kelann Currie-Williams (she/they) is a writer, lens-based artist, and
oral historian based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She is a PhD student in the
Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at Concordia University where she specializes in visual culture (history, theory, and philosophy of
photography), history (oral and public history), cultural studies, and black Canadian studies. Their current work focuses on the histories of image-making and photographic
preservation/archival practices in Black Canada during the late 19th to late
20th centuries.
Kelann holds a master’s in Interdisciplinary Humanities and
Fine Arts as well as a BA in Communication Studies (with a minor in Film
Studies), both from Concordia University. Kelann is an affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) and a member of Post Image cluster (Milieux Institute). Her writing has appeared in the Canadian
Journal of History, Philosophy of Photography, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Urban History Review, Quebec
Heritage News, and alt.theatre online.
CV (Updated May 2023)
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