Kelann Currie-Williams

Kelann Currie-Williams (they/she) is a writer, visual artist, and oral historian based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Kelann is currently a PhD candidate at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, working at the intersections of Visual Culture Studies, Oral History, Black Studies, and Cultural Studies. Their research focuses on the image-making and photographic preservation histories of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in Canada from the late 19th to late 20th centuries, and the scenes of migration, homemaking, community-building, and political mobilization that those photographs depict. In addition to being a long-time student affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Kelann is currently the 2024-2025 Student Representative for COHDS, as well as an affiliate of the Access in the Making lab and a member of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology’s Post Image cluster. Her critical work has appeared in academic journals such as Urban History Review, the Canadian Journal of History, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, and Philosophy of Photography.