Emily Kathryn Morgan
- Associate Professor, Department of Art and Visual Culture
Dr. Morgan’s book Imaging Animal Industry: American Meatpacking in Photography and Visual Culture was published in August 2024 by the University of Iowa Press. She is also the author of Street Life in London: Context and Commentary (MuseumsEtc. 2014). She has published articles in Art Journal, History of Photography, Food and History, and Animal Studies Journal, among others. She received her Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art from the University of Arizona.
Education
- Ph.D., Art History, University of Arizona, 2012
- M.A., Art History, University of Arizona, 2006
- B.A., English, Tufts University (Magna cum laude), 2000
- B.F.A., Studio Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2000
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2024 Morgan, Emily Kathryn. Imaging Animal Industry: American Meatpacking in Photography and Visual Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
2014 Morgan, Emily Kathryn. Street Life in London: Context and Commentary. Edinburgh / Boston: MuseumsEtc.
Peer-reviewed articles
2024 Bellet, Camille, and Emily Kathryn Morgan. “Co-valence in Cow-veillance: Sensing Technologies and Human-Animal Affinities in Dairying.” Science, Technology, & Human Values. Published online at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01622439241280177.
2022 Bellet, Camille, and Emily Kathryn Morgan. “Breed(ing) Narratives: Visualizing Values in Industrial Farming.” Animal Studies Journal 11:1 (2022): 200-255. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.14453/asj.v11i1.9 .
2019 Morgan, Emily Kathryn. “’Those Truly Augean Stables’: International Visions of Chicago’s Packingtown.” Food and History 16:2 (issue date 2018, published 2019): 107-134.
2018 Morgan, Emily Kathryn. “Harry Callahan’s Pornographic Appropriations.” Art Journal 77:3 (Fall 2018): 92-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2018.1530013
2018 Morgan, Emily Kathryn. “Waterloo Packer: Selling Slaughter.” History of Photography 42:2 (May 2018), 128-145. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2018.1500786
2018 Morgan, Emily Kathryn. "Striking Images: Photographs of Iowa Packinghouse Labor Conflict, 1948-1960.” Annals of Iowa 77:2 (Spring 2018): 151-189. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17077/0003-4827.12500
Book chapters
2018 Morgan, Emily Kathryn. “’True Types of the London Poor’: Street Life in London’s Transitional Typology,” in Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary: Local Practices and Global Contexts, eds. Lynda Klich and Tara Zanardi. New York: Routledge, 2018: 121-134.
2014 Morgan, Emily Kathryn. “Preface,” Street Life in London, by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith. Rpt. Edinburgh / Boston: MuseumsEtc.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2024 “Imaging Animal Industry,” Symposium on the Intersection of Art and Medical Humanities, Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, June 19-21.
2022 “Photographing Industrial Slaughter in Chicago’s Packingtown,” American Meat Science Association Webinar Series, May 24. Recording available at https://meatscience.org/publications-resources/webinars/webinar/photographing-industrial-slaughter-in-chicago's-packingtown
2020 “Selling Meat to Mrs. Consumer in Midcentury America,” Feminist Fridays Lecture Series, Margaret Sloss Center for Women and Gender Studies, Iowa State University, Oct. 23
2020 “Picturing Packing: Commercial Visions of the American Meat Trade,” Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, Iowa State University, Jan. 24.
2019 “Imaging Animal Industry: Visualizing the American Meatpacking Trade,” Visual Studies Research Institute, University of Southern California. Part of the VSRI lecture series "Selling the Story: Commercial Pictures and Visual Persuasion,” co-sponsored by VSRI and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 5.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2024 “What About the People?”: Visions of Mechanization in Meatpacking Magazines,” Photography and Magazines Symposium, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, Nov. 1
2024 “Meet Martha Logan: Beauty and Domesticity in Industrial Home Economics,” Beauty Investigated: Dilemmas, Projects and Promises, Iowa State University, Feb. 16
2023 “Rendering Rendering: Photographing Animal Extraction,” College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Photography Network sponsored session, New York, NY, Feb. 15
2021 “’You are Walking Through Blood Now’: Routine and Rupture in the Packinghouse,” British Animal Studies Network (BASN), Virtual conference, April 16.
2021 “’The Hog-Squeal of the Universe’: Photographing Industrial Slaughter," College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Feb. 10-13; virtual panel discussion Feb. 11
2019 “Mastering Animal Bodies: Perspective as an Organizing Principle in Packinghouse Photographs.” Creaturely Ethics, Poetics, and Animal Studies panel, 11th Critical Management Studies Conference, Milton Keynes, UK, June 28
2017 “Photography and the Rise of a Global Trade in Meat,” European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art (ESNA) Annual Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, June 9
2016 “Waterloo Packer: Sanitizing Slaughter,” Southeast College Art Conference (SECAC), Roanoke, VA, October 20
2016 “Travels in the Sanitary Landscape: St. Louis and Chicago, 1904,” College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., February 3
2015 “City Pictures: Harry Callahan’s Urban Photographs,” Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Pittsburgh, PA, October 24
2014 “Harry Callahan as Teacher and Mentor,” Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Sarasota, FL, October 9
2013 “’True Types of the London Poor’: Street Life in London’s Transitional Typology,” Fashioning Identities Symposium, Hunter College, City University of New York, 18-19 October
2013 “Collaboration and Conflict in Street Life in London,” European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art (ESNA) Annual Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22-23 May
2012 “Re-envisioning the Working Class in Street Life in London,” Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, Bloomington, IN, April 20
2010 “’The Dignity of Disinfection’: The Labor and Rhetoric of Disease Containment in Street Life in London,” College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art sponsored session, Chicago, IL, February 11