Staff Profile

Madison Brown specializes in the history and theory of vernacular media cultures. Situated at the intersection of photo archives and everyday life, her work explores the politics of visual culture through questions of memory, absence, and power differentials. She is especially interested in whose stories get told at an institutional level, by whom, and for whom. At the Harvard Art Museums, Brown prepares interpretive materials for installations and exhibitions, supports teaching in the galleries and the Art Study Center, and consults on her areas of expertise. Before joining the museums, Brown was the 2023–24 Interdisciplinary Fellow at the Block Museum of Art, where she curated A Little Truth: Fact and Fiction in Family Photography.