Jeff Rosen is an art historian and higher education administrator.

As an art historian, Jeff writes about the history of photography and the origins of photomechanical printing. His recent publications have focused on the work of the Victorian photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron, in relation to questions of colonialism and empire, the formation of British national identity, and the cultural symbolism of triumph and mourning as expressed in Cameron’s allegorical photographs. He has published historical essays on the nineteenth century works of Alfred Stieglitz, Eugene Atget, John Thomson, Malvina Hoffman, and others, and a long bibliography of historical work on the origins of photolithography and photomechanical reproduction in France.

His new book, Julia Margaret Cameron:  The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography, will be published in 2024 by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press.  Earlier studies include: Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’: photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire (MUP, 2017) and an essay on Cameron’s 1871 exhibition in the waiting room of Brockenhurst railway station, published in The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces (ed. Murgia and Bauer; AUP, 2021).

As a higher education administrator, Jeff served as Vice President for Accreditation Relations and Director of the Open Pathway at the Higher Learning Commission, the largest regional accreditor in the United States.  At the Commission, Jeff wrote policy directives in areas like civic engagement and competency-based education and managed a portfolio of colleges and universities across nineteen states.  As a former academic dean, he worked for three research universities in Chicago, including Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and Loyola University Chicago, where started numerous academic programs and managed University Summer Sessions.  He is a former Managing Trustee for the Ontario Colleges Quality Assurance Service (OCQAS) and former elected Trustee of Oakton Community College.

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