My name is Jacob W. Lewis.

I write and teach about photographs and their histories. I enjoy collaborating with scholars, artists, educators, and more. If you are looking to hire me, please visit client services and get in touch.

I also record amateur music and can help you with sound editing and/or sound mixing, if that's your thing.

I live in Catonsville, Maryland.

Recent Publications

  • Passages, Origins, & Margins

    Gabriel Cromer, Walter Benjamin, and Photography's History, in The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography (Yale, 2022)

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  • Early Photography's Presence

    in Ubiquity: Photography's Multitudes (Leuven, 2021)

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  • Early Photogravure & the Material Unconscious

    in Photography’s Materialities: Transatlantic Photographic Practices over the Long Nineteenth Century (Leuven, 2021)

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About me

With a PhD in Art History from Northwestern University, I've worked as faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Rochester, College of Staten Island (CUNY), Pratt Institute, and Rutgers University. I also have experience with projects for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Eastman Museum, and the Clark Art Institute. For more, please view my CV.

In addition to my scholarship, I play a few instruments and record music as Gossip Is Murder.