Advisory Board and Team
Associate Director, NYU Center for the Humanities
Molly Rogers has worked extensively as an academic and research administrator in both the US and the UK. She is also a writer and historian with interests in the history and theory of photography. Her book Delia’s Tears (Yale, 2010) explores the intersections of racial politics, early anthropology, and photography in nineteenth-century America. She is co-editor of the award winning collection To Make Their Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes (Peabody Museum Press / Aperture, 2020), for which she also wrote the introduction. Molly is currently writing a memoir told through the history and theory of photography, the first chapter of which was named a Notable Essay of 2021 in The Best American Essays 2022.