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/

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

Visualizing War Seminar 

Feminist Visual Activism Seminar