Kelann Currie-Williams is a ND visual artist, writer, and oral historian based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She is a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at Concordia University where her research spans the fields
of visual culture, photography theory, Black Canadian studies, oral history, and cultural geography. Her current work focuses on the histories of vernacular photography practices in Black Canada and their presence within community, personal, and institutional photographic archives and collections.
She holds a MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Fine Arts as well as a BA in Communication Studies (with a minor in Film Studies), both from Concordia University. She is an affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS), a member of Post Image cluster (Milieux Institute), and the Access in the Making lab.