Chair, Photography. Diploma, Ontario College of Art; M.F.A., School of Visual Arts. Solo and group exhibitions throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia including P.S. 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; International Center of Photography, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Art in General, NY; Gallery 44, Toronto; Dazibao, Montreal; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Julie Saul Gallery, NY, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston. Work included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; International Center of Photography, among others. Recent awards: Anonymous Was A Woman; Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; New York Foundation for the Arts Catalogue Project Grant. Has taught at Rhode Island School of Design; Columbia University; New York University; Cooper Union; Parsons School of Design; Sarah Lawrence College; and is currently core faculty at the School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography and Related Media program, NYC.

B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University; M.A., Manhattan School of Music; honorary doctorate, Yale University. Soprano. Made debut at Metropolitan Opera in 1984; has since achieved worldwide celebrity as a singer of opera and concert repertoire. Known for singing the great Mozart roles (Pamina, Ilia, Susanna, Despina) as well as works by Bach, Bartók, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Messiaen, Debussy, John Adams. Has performed with James Levine, Sir Simon Rattle, Gilbert Kalish, Kronos Quartet, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the Cleveland, Chicago, and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestras, among others. Winner of three Grammy Awards; featured on more than 50 recordings. First singer to be named a “Perspectives” Artist by Carnegie Hall. Recipient, MacArthur Fellowship (2007). Artistic director, Graduate Program in Vocal Arts, Bard College Conservatory of Music. (2004– )

B.A., Carleton College; M.A., University at Albany; Ph.D., Columbia University. Areas of interest include African history, with emphasis on southern Africa; European imperialism; history of Christianity in Africa; religion and gender. Taught secondary school social studies for five years in Red Hook and Arlington, New York, school districts. Member, American Historical Association, African Studies Association, Coordinating Council of Women Historians. Awards: German Academic Exchange Service Grant (1984 85), Richard Hofstadter Fellowship (1995 2000), Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Grant (1999). Editorial board, Le Fait Missionaire (Lausanne, Switzerland). Articles in Le Fait Missionaire, Women's History Review, and Women in African Colonial Histories (Indiana University Press, 2002).