ABOUT — KELANN CURRIE-WILLIAMS

Kelann Currie-Williams (she/they) is a writer, visual culture scholar, and oral historian based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She is a SSHRC CGS-funded PhD candidate at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture where she specializes in visual culture studies (history, theory, and philosophy of photography), history (oral and social history), cultural studies, and Black Studies. Their current work focuses on the histories of image-making and the photographic preservation/archival practices of Black Canada’s Caribbean Diaspora 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 a core member & student affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS), an affiliate of the Access in the Making lab (AIM), and a member of the Kitchen Table Collective (KTC). Their writing has appeared in the Canadian Journal of History, Philosophy of Photography, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Urban History Review, the Acadiensis Blog, and Quebec Heritage News.