Stange, Maren

Maren Stange is noted for scholarship in visual culture and cultural history. She gained her undergraduate degree in English literature at Harvard University and her Ph.D. in American Studies at Boston University. She has been a member of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union in New York City since 1992.

Professor Stange was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Munich in 1996-1997, and she has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Yale University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her first book, Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890-1950 (1989), is considered a seminal work in visual culture studies; her books Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures; Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks, and her essays on Roy DeCarava, Carrie Mae Weems, Richard Wright, and Ebony magazine constitute a major critical consideration of African American photographic representation throughout the twentieth century.

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