An ongoing collaborative effort between Ohio State’s Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Getty Images, Picturing Black History seeks to uncover untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally-significant moments by bringing them into the light and into view. Blending the breadth and depth of Getty Images’ imagery archives with the renowned expertise of Origins and Ohio State’s History Department, we seek to inform, educate, and move the world forward, by exploring the past.
Learn more about Black History and the goals of the project here:
Based in New York, Bob Ahern is the Director of Archive Photography for Getty Images and has been with the company 22 years. Bob is responsible overseeing a team of senior editors and for the Archive’s overarching content strategy, which includes overview of the Archive’s 120 million images, 4000 contributing photographers and numerous key image partners.
Nicholas Breyfogle is co-editor of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University.
Steve Conn is co-editor of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and W. E. Smith Professor of History, Miami University.
Ben St. Angelo is former managing editor of Picturing Black History. He is a PhD candidate at The Ohio State University. His areas of expertise are African American history and labor history.
Daniela Edmeier is former managing editor of Picturing Black History and a PhD Candidate at Ohio State University. Her areas of expertise are race, ethnicity, nation, and colonialism.
Paul McAllister is managing editor of Picturing Black History. Paul is a History Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University. His research interests include Military History, African American History, and Modern U.S. History. His research looks at the impact of African American veterans on public health in the United States during the 20th century.
Damarius Johnson is former managing editor with Picturing Black History. He is a PhD student in History at Ohio State University. His research interests include African history, African American history, and museum studies.
Sarah Kubiak is an archival research editor who co-manages the collections at the Bettmann Archive. Sarah earned her Master of Arts in history at Slippery Rock University and has been an archivist at the Bettmann Archive for the past 17 years.
Leslie Stauffer is an archival research editor at Getty Images and her role includes co-managing the collections at the Bettmann Archive. Leslie has been an archivist at the Bettmann Archive for 17 years. She earned her Master of Arts in history at Slippery Rock University and earned a post graduate archival certification at the University of Southern Mississippi.
David Steigerwald is co-editor of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Professor of History at Ohio State University.
Laura Seeger is digital media and distance learning specialist for the Department of History at Ohio State University. Laura provides video and audio production for Picturing Black History, as well as website consultation.
Dr. Tammy Brown is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist with teaching and research interests in U.S. History, African Diaspora, Feminism, and Art as Activism.
Dr. Brown's teaching, writing, and service to Miami University and broader communities are connected through her interest in art, technology, and biography as a methodological approach.
Dr. Jocelyn Imani is a historian, cultural consultant, and community builder. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Howard University. and a B.A. from Fisk University. She has worked with the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, and has been a professor at several institutions. She actively works to make shared space – public lands, museums, educational institutions, etc. – more relevant and accessible to all populations in an ever-changing America.
Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries is an Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University where he teaches courses on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement. Hasan has worked on several public history projects and he regularly shares his knowledge of African American history and contemporary Black politics with the public through lectures, workshops, op-eds, and radio and television interviews.
Dr. LaGarrett J. King is an Associate Professor of Social Studies Education in the Department of Learning and Instruction in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo. Dr. King earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. A former teacher in Texas and Georgia, his research broadly examines how Black history and race are taught and learned in schools and society.
Dr. Treva B. Lindsey is a Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the founder of the Transformative Black Feminisms Initiative at Ohio State University. Her research and teaching interests include African American women's history, popular culture, Black feminisms, and social movement studies. She is a publicly engaged scholar who offers commentary on Black life and culture to numerous outlets across the world.
Dr. Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead is the founding director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice and an associate professor of communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland. She is the host of the award-winning radio show Today with Dr. Kaye and the 2021 recipient of a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Afro newspaper's "2021 Newsmaker of the Year."
Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective connects history with today with rich stories and engaging analysis. Origins offers thoughtful, reliable, and free insight into our world’s most pressing current events through a wide range of media: short and long-form essays, the podcasts Prologued and History Talk, the Origins OSU video channel, the policy website A Well-Informed People, and a popular teacher resources. Origins aims to bring to life the words of Toni Morrison: “For insight into the complicated and complicating events … , one needs perspective, not attitudes; context, not anecdotes; analyses, not postures. For any kind of lasting illumination the focus must be on the history routinely ignored or played down or unknown.”
Origins thanks the Stanton Foundation, the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme, and the Ohio State University Department of History, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for East Asian Studies and College of Arts and Sciences for their generous support of this collaboration.
© 2021–2024 This project is a collaboration of Getty Images and Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective.
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