Cara Finnegan
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Cara Finnegan is an American author and communications scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Finnegan's research examines the role of photography as a tool for public life. Finnegan posits that photographs are powerful forms of communication which visualize social issues, make visible those who are often invisible, and foster or limit bonds of identification.[1]
Education & early life[edit]
Finnegan joined the University of Illinois in 1999 after completing her Ph.D. at Northwestern University. She attended the University of Maine where she received her M.A.in Communication and the University of St. Thomas where she received her B.A. in Communication and Journalism.[1] [2]
Research[edit]
Finnegan holds appointments in the Center for Writing Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Finnegan was named a University Scholar in 2017.[3]
Selected works[edit]
Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital[4]
Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression[5]
Picturing Poverty[6]
Honors[edit]
2016-17 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellow[7]
External links[edit]
- Cara Finnegan publications indexed by Google Scholar
- The Daily Illini interview of Finnegan
- The New York Times quoting Finnegan
- The Authors Guildindex of Finnegan's publications
- The Independent quoting Finnegan
- Vox quoting Finnegan
- PetaPixel quoting Finnegan
- Smile Politely coverage of Finnegan
- The Bustle quoting Finnegan
- BBC quoting Finnegan
- The Eye of Photography quoting Finnegan
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Cara Anne Finnegan". University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
- ↑ http://www.carafinnegan.com/uploads/8/1/5/3/8153477/finnegancv8-18.pdf
- ↑ https://experts.illinois.edu/en/persons/cara-anne-finnegan
- ↑ Finnegan, Cara A. "UI Press | Cara A. Finnegan | Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital". www.press.uillinois.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
- ↑ https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/making-photography-matter-cara-a-finnegan/1120564789
- ↑ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/231769/picturing-poverty-by-cara-a-finnegan/
- ↑ https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/295246
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