Rachel Schreiber

Director of Humanities and Sciences Rachel Schreiber also is a media artist, writer, and cultural historian whose work in video, digital media, and photography has been exhibited internationally.

Her research interests center on gender and visual culture, with a particular interest in the intersections of class, gender, and ethnicity in representations of labor. Her dissertation, completed in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University, studies gender in the political cartoons of the socialist press of New York City in the 1910s.

Her current photographically based projects use public sites to present highly visible portraits of workers whose labor typically remains invisible within our society.

Schreiber has been teaching media arts, critical theory, and cultural history since 1996. Before coming to CCA she taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

Schreiber's video, photographic, and Internet-based works have been exhibited widely at venues including The New York Video Festival; The World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam; Art in General, New York; The Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; and the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York.

Her writings have been published in Afterimage, the New Art Examiner, and Index. Her article, "Before Their Makers and Their Judges: Prostitutes and White Slaves in the Political Cartoons of the Masses" is forthcoming in Feminist Studies.