Sarah Elizabeth Lewis

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is an art and cultural historian, curator, and author. She is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and the Founder of Vision & Justice. Her books and edited volumes include Carrie Mae Weems (MIT Press, 2021), “Vision & Justice” by Aperture magazine (2016), and The Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2014). Lewis was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2022. Her scholarship has received awards including the Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize, the inaugural Freedom Scholar Award from The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. Lewis’s forthcoming publications include The Unseen Truth (Harvard University Press, 2024), Vision & Justice (One World/Random House), and Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law.