Dr. Leigh Raiford
Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Leigh Raiford is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches, researches, curates, and writes about race, gender, justice, and visuality. At UC Berkeley, Raiford is co-director with Tianna S. Paschel of the Black Studies Collaboratory, an ongoing initiative to amplify the world-building work of Black Studies supported by funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the San Francisco Foundation. Raiford is the author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle (2011), When Home is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World (forthcoming 2026), and co-author with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, and Laura Wexler of Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography (2024). Raiford is series editor with Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Deborah Willis of Vision and Justice, an imprint of Aperture Books.
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