Project
Islands of Work at the Rough Edge of the World; and: Archiving Culture and Nature: Harlan I. Smith’s Ethnographic Record of the Pacific Slope
Two book-length studies will be completed.
Project
KROTOA IS PRESENT: A 17th Century story that refuses to die
The story of Krotoa !Goa /gõas

Project
Queer Transitions: Biographical Space and Black Visuality in the Remains of Apartheid
A quarter century into democratic South Africa, it is a truism that Apartheid’s forms remain present in various ways.

Project
Documentary, Desire, Description: South Africa’s ‘Second World War’ and the mediation/materialisation of ‘witness’
This project centres on South Africa’s first illustrated magazine Libertas (1940 -1946) a vehicle of anti-Fascist advocacy and propaganda for pro-Allied engagement in WW2.

Publication
School Photos in Liquid Time
Hirsch, Marianne and Leo Spitzer. 2020. School Photos in Liquid Time. University of Washington Press. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029574...


