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Kylie Thomas

Senior Lecturer

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4157-0734
20042026

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Biography

Kylie Thomas is a Senior Lecturer at the Radical Humanities Laboratory and in Art History at University College Cork. She is also a Guest Researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where she co-directs the NIOD ImageLab, a project that focuses on war and visual culture. She writes about photography, violence and history; about LGBT and anti-racist activism; and about South African politics and society during and after apartheid. She is the author of Afterimages of Apartheid: Photography and Resistance (2025), and Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality after Apartheid (2014). She is the co-editor of Photography In and Out of Africa: Iterations with Difference (2016) and Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges (2020). She holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and an MA from the University of British Columbia, Canada. During her PhD she was a visiting fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and has since held teaching positions and fellowships at universities and research institutes in South Africa, The Netherlands, Ireland, Austria, Canada, England and Italy. You can find out more about her research at the following sites: https://www.photographyandresistance.com/ https://www.niodimagelab.nl/

Research Interests

Social Justice; Visual Activism; History and Theory of Photography; African Studies; War and Violence; Resistance

Teaching Activities

Visualizing War Seminar 

Feminist Visual Activism Seminar 

External positions

Member of the Scientific Committee, International Research Centre Fotografia Arte Femminismi, , University of Bologna

22 Dec 2025 → …

International Board Member, Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies , University of Bern

3 Dec 2025 → …

Guest Researcher, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

1 Sep 2023 → …

UCC Futures (primary)

  • Future Humanities Institute

Other research affiliations

  • UCC Futures - Future Humanities Institute (incl. RHL)

PhD Supervision

  • Available for PhD supervision

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  5. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  6. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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