Nicholas Mirzoeff

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media Culture and Communication at New York University. He is one of the founders of the academic discipline of visual culture in books like An Introduction to Visual Culture (1999/2009/2023) and The Visual Culture Reader (1998/2002/2012). He is also Deputy Director of the International Association for Visual Culture and organized its first conference in 2012. His most recent book "The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality" (2011) won the Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. "How To See The World" (2016) has been translated into ten languages. His new book is "White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness" (2023).