Thomas S Rankin, Professor of the Practice, Art and Documentary Studies, Director MFAEDA, Director CDS- Duke University

Thomas S Rankin, Professor of the Practice, Art and Documentary Studies, Director MFAEDA, Director CDS

Specialization:

Photography, Filmaking & Folklore

Research Interests:

A photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist, Tom Rankin has been documenting and interpreting American culture for nearly twenty years. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (1993), which received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography, 'Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre': Photographs of a River Life(1995), Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (1997), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2000).

Education:

MFA Georgia State University 1987
MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1983
BA Tufts University 1980
Other School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1978

Contact Info:

Office Location:	1317 W Pettigrew St
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3613, (919) 660-3610
Email Address:	tom.rankin@duke.edu
Web Page:	http://cds.aas.duke.edu/

Recent Publications (More Publications)

Tom Rankin. A Place of Tender Images: Paul Kwilecki's Four Decades of Photography of Decatur County, GA. (2012).
Tom Rankin. Truths of the Matter: Traditions in Documentary Studies. (2012).
Colors of Confinement: Color Photographs of Japanese AmericanIncarceration in World War II. edited by Tom Rankin with Iris Tillman Hill(2012).
In This Timeless Time. edited by Tom Rankin, with Iris Tillman Hill(2011).
Tom Rankin. "The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious." Southern Cultures (2011).