{"id":4834,"date":"2022-08-01T09:06:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/erin-h-nolan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:12:38","slug":"erin-h-nolan","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/erin-h-nolan\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin H. Nolan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erin Hyde Nolan<\/strong> is a photo historian who engages lens-based media throughout the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bates College where her classes center around questions of vision and technology: who is seeing and who is being seen? Working across diverse lens-based media in the modern period, her teaching emphasizes the cultural contingency of visual representation, and mutable meaning of material objects within changing political contexts.\u00a0 Hyde Nolan’s courses examine the transnational circulation of image technologies in order to decenter dominant narratives and artistic origin stories from Europe and the United States, constellating image histories that are international, inclusive, and collaborative.<\/p>\n

Her monograph-in-progress, Portrait Atlas: The Migration of Photographs Across the Ottoman-Atlantic<\/em>, maps the ways in which images from the modern Middle East\u00a0intersect with\u00a0trans-Atlantic geographies. She is the co-author, with Sophie Junge, of\u00a0Survey Practices and Landscape Photography Across the Globe<\/em>\u00a0(Routledge, 2022), and with Aim\u00e9e Bessire, of\u00a0Outside the Frame: Todd Webb in Africa<\/em> (Thames & Hudson 2021) and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.<\/p>\n

She is currently a fellow with the Khamseen\u2019s Getty project “The Futures of Islamic Art History: Remapping the Field.” Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University, Heinrich Heine University Du\u0308sseldorf, Terra Foundation for American Art, Getty Research Institute, and Max-Planck-Institut, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

EDUCATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2017 Ph.D. Boston University, History of Art and Architecture<\/p>\n

2012 M.A. Boston University, History of Art and Architecture<\/p>\n

2004 B.A. Tufts University, History of Art and Architecture and English<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Imagined landscapes and Istanbul\u2019s Modern Machine Rooms,\u201d in Mediterranean Mobilities after 1800: Visual and Material Approaches to Infrastructure<\/em>, ed. Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Anna Sophia Messner, and Shraddha Bhatawadekar, Heinrich-Heine-Universit\u00e4t <\/span>[De Gruyter, 2027 – forthcoming]<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the Landscape Grows Back: <\/span>Photographic Futurity in the work of Gohar Dashti<\/span>,\u201d in \u201cGlobal Archives of Empire and Photographic Futurity\u201d special issue of <\/span>Photography & Culture, <\/span><\/i>ed. by Erin Hyde Nolan and Emily Voelker, 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Ottoman Time-scapes: Photo-collage as Diplomacy,\u201d in <\/span>Ottoman\u00a0Cultural Mobilities: 19th Century Modes of Travel, Collecting and Display<\/span><\/i>, ed. by <\/span>Belgin Turan Ozkaya and Sibel Zandi-Sayek <\/span>(De Gruyter, 2026)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Maternal Orientalism: Women\u2019s Work and the Photographs of Jessie Tarbox Beals at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition<\/span>,\u201d co-authored with Emily Voelker in <\/span>Art and Empire: Imperialism and Aesthetic Practices, 1865-1945<\/span><\/i>, ed. by Emily Burns and Alice Price (Routledge, 2025)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Survey Practice and Landscape Photography Across the Globe<\/em> co-edited by Sophie Junge (London: Routledge, November 2022).<\/p>\n

\u201cTransatlantic Collaborations in the Colonial Archive: Todd Webb\u2019s 1958 UN Commission,\u201d co-authored with Aim\u00e9e Bessire and Halfan Hashim Magani in Fotogeschichte<\/em>, special issue on \u201cPhotography and Colonialism,\u201d edited by Sophie Junge, January 2022.<\/p>\n

Outside of the Frame: Todd Webb\u2019s 1958 Photographs of Africa for the United Nations<\/em> co-edited with Aim\u00e9e Bessire (London: Thames & Hudson, 2021).<\/p>\n

\u201cReading Native American Portraits in Ottoman: A Networked Analysis of Photographs in the Abd\u00fclhamid II Collection\u201d co-authored with Emily Voelker on Transatlantic Cultures Digital Platform<\/em>, https:\/\/tracs-edition.univ-lr.fr\/app\/en\/index (2021)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1546,"featured_media":5173,"template":"","class_list":["post-4834","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-specific-archives","expertise-specific-digital-art-history","expertise-specific-global-art-histories","expertise-specific-histories-of-photography","expertise-specific-islamic-art","expertise-specific-mediterranean-visual-cultures","expertise-specific-middle-eastern-studies","expertise-specific-migration","expertise-specific-modernism","expertise-specific-nineteenth-century","expertise-specific-photographic-theory","expertise-specific-portraiture","expertise-specific-survey-practices","expertise-specific-transnational-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8382,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4834\/revisions\/8382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}