Erina Duganne is Professor of Art History at Texas State University where she teaches courses on contemporary art, photography, and visual culture. Her current book project looks at the solidarity practices of the short-lived 1984 campaign, Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America. Through its artist activism, Duganne charts an account of the 1980s, overlooked in most art historical considerations, that turns away from postmodernism’s skepticism and critique to take up solidarity’s future thinking and belonging. The project has received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

Additional publications by Duganne include Cold War Camera (2023), co-edited with Thy Phu and Andrea Noble; Global Photography: A Critical History (2020), co-authored with Heather Diack and Terri Weissman; The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography (2010); and Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain (2007), co-edited with Mark Reinhardt and Holly Edwards. In 2022, Duganne co-curated, with Abby Satinsky, Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities at the Tufts University Art Galleries. The exhibition subsequently traveled to the University of New Mexico Art Museum and to the DePaul Art Museum.

For more on Duganne’s current research, see her interview, “On Artists Call, Arts Activism and Solidarity,” with at Holly Stuart Hughes for the Democratic Lens and her blog, “Forgotten Transnational Solidarity Between the Americas,” written for Greg Sholette’s “Our Bare Art World.”