Emily Rena Williams

Emily Rena Williams

Emily is a photographer, educator, and artist interested in investigating communal and individual memory, identity, and placemaking through photography, writing, and audio. She holds a BA in fine arts and history from Haverford College, an MFA in photography from Louisiana State University, and is an incoming PhD student in American studies at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Her current body of work, "We had to know who we were; We had to know who we weren't" explores Jewish identity, history, placemaking, and memory in the rural and small-town Deep South. Her work has been supported by The Southern Jewish Historical Society, Texas Jewish Historical Society, Alabama Folklife Association, and the LSU School of Art Graduate Student Scholarly & Creative Activity Support Fund.