Robin Kelsey

Robin Kelsey has been Dean of Arts and Humanities at Harvard University since 2016, and Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography in the Department of History of Art and Architecture (HAA) since 2009. Before becoming Dean, he chaired HAA for three years. He holds a PhD in History of Art from Harvard and a JD from Yale Law School and has practiced law in California. Professor Kelsey is the author of Photography and the Art of Chance (Harvard, 2015), and Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890 (California Press, 2007). With Blake Stimson, he co-edited the anthology The Meaning of Photography (Clark Art Institute/Yale, 2008). Professor Kelsey has received various awards for his scholarship and teaching, including the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, the Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship, and the Rosalyn Abramson Award.