Jordan Reznick

Assistant Professor

Offices, Departments, or Centers: American Studies ,

Jordan Reznick is a photo historian and photographer who researches Native North American, settler colonial, and transgender histories of photography. His current research examines how Indigenous ecological science shaped nineteenth-century landscape photographs in California. Reznick was 2022-2023 GRI/NEH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute and recipient of the 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend.

Selected Publications

Indigenous Space: Hodinöhsö:ni’ Sky World and the Territories of American Art, American Art 37, no. 2 (Summer 2023)
Through the Guillotine Mirror: Claude Cahun’s Photographic Theory of Trans against the Void, Art Journal 81, no. 3 (Fall 2022)
Dismembered Muses and Mirrors that Bite: A Trans Perspective on Gender Variance in Surrealist Visual Arts, The Routledge Companion to Surrealism, edited by Kirsten Strom, London: Routledge, 2022

Courses Taught

AMS 130 - Introduction to American Studies
AMS 225 - Theory & Methods
AMS 275- American Transgender History
AMS 295- Settler Colonialism and American Visual Culture
AMS 395- Researching Gender Minorities at the Margins

Education and Degrees

Ph.D. Visual Studies, History of Art and Visual Culture Department, University of California Santa Cruz, 2020
M.F.A. Photography, California College of the Arts, 2013
M.A. Visual & Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, 2013
B.F.A. Photography, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 2008