Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis is an American photographer, historian, and art historian born in Philadelphia in 1948. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellows Program recognition. Her works are held in the collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem, and she has exhibited at the Woodmere Art Museum and Carnegie Museum of Art.

Willis was educated at City College of New York, The University of the Arts, Pratt Institute, and George Mason University. She has worked for New York University and the New York Public Library. Her notable publications include *Daufuskie Island*, *Women and Migration*, *African American Vernacular Photography*, *Convergence*, *8 photographers*, and *Envisioning Emancipation*. Her archives are located at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.