Dr. Deanna Ledezma Successfully Defends Dissertation!

Congratulations to Dr. Deanna Ledezma, who successfully completed and defended her dissertation! Deanna's dissertation is entitled "The Fecundity of Family Photography: Histories, Identities, Archival Relations." The co-chairs of Deanna's dissertation committee and her primary advisors were Professor Ömür Harmansah, Associate Professor of Art and Architecture of the Ancient Near East, Archaeology, and Material Culture Studies, and Professor Jonathan Mekinda, Associate Professor of Design History.

Image caption: Louis Carlos Bernal, portrait of Elina Laos Sayre, black-and-white photograph, c. 1983, Tucson, Arizona. Published in Patricia Preciado Martin and Louis Carlos Bernal, Images and Conversations: Mexican Americans Recall a Southwestern Past (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1983), 53.