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Summer Sloane Britt
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
B.A. Swarthmore College; Ph.D. New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
Appointed In
2025
Office
Weingart 114

Prof. Sloane-Britt researches the global history of photography, particularly the intersection of photography and liberation movements.

Her dissertation explores the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) photography department, emphasizing their innovative contributions to the 1960s Black Freedom Movement. At the Institute, Summer co-curated the 2021 exhibition Cauleen Smith, H-E-L-L-O: To Do All at Once and a recent group exhibition on Chicane muralism in Los Angeles. Sloane-Britt has held positions at the Billie Holiday Theatre, the National Gallery of Art, the Grey Art Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.