Biography

Kris Belden-Adams is an associate professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Texas A&M University, and a co-convenor of the annual Women of Photography 24-Hour Conference-a-Thon on International Women’s Day. She was previously an associate professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi (2013-2025) and was appointed the Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Research Chair of Excellence in Art History at the University of Memphis (2023-2024).

Belden-Adams is the editor in chief of Art Inquiries journal, and is the author of monographs “Photography, Temporality, Modernity: Time Warped” (2019), and “Photography, Eugenics, ‘Aristogenics’: Picturing Privilege” (2020). In addition, she is an editor and contributor to the volumes “Photography and Failure: One Medium’s Incessant Entanglement with Mishaps, Flops, and Disappointments” (2017), and “Diverse Histories in Photographic Albums: ‘These Are Our Stories’” (2022). With Karen Barber, Ph.D., Belden-Adams is a content co-editor for Smarthistory’s/Khan Academy’s coverage on the history of photography. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the City University of New York – Graduate Center.