Faculty Fellow
Arts Professor, Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts
Local Space/Global Visions: Archives, Networks and Visual Geography Around 1900
Shelley Rice is Arts Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch. She is the author of Parisian Views (MIT Press, 1997; shortlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Award, 1999); Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman (MIT Press, 1999). She is also the co-author of numerous catalogues, books, and criticism. She most recently was awarded the rank of chevalier, or knight, in France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contributions to furthering the arts in France and throughout the world.
Professor Rice has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1992); Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (France, 1988) and Fulbright Senior Lecture Fellowship (to create a Media Center linked to public television at Bosphorus University, Istanbul,1999). She has also received a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency (1989), two National Endowment for the Arts grants, two National Endowment for the Humanities grants, two New York State Council on the Arts grants, a Bourse d’Etude from the French Minister of Culture (1991), and the PEN/Jerard Award for Non-Fiction Essay (1989).