Michaela Clark, PhD
Email: Michaela.Clark@med.uni-duesseldorf.de
Phone: +49 211 81 06473
Office: building 17.11, floor 1, room 48
Research Interests
History of medical photography
Conspicuous disease in the twentieth century
Epistemology and ethics of medical representation
Visual and material culture studies
Settler-colonial medical histories (South Africa)
Curatorship and museum studies
History of the body in art, society and medicine
Clark, M. & Costandius, E. 2020. Redress at Higher Education Institutions in South Africa: Mapping a Way Forward. De Arte 55(3). URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00043389.2020.1728874.
Clark, M. 2019. Patients, Power and Representation: Clinical Photographs in Focus. De Arte 54(3). URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00043389.2019.1580415.
Clark, M. [in preparation] Surface Tensions: Photographic Uncertainties at Cape Town’s Medical School. Bulletin for the History of Medicine (special issue on'Photographs as sources for writing histories of medicine, health and healing in colonial and postcolonial Africa')
Clark, M. 2023. Visualising Medical Knowledge: Photographing Patients in Twentieth-Century Cape Town, in The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences: South/African Perspectives, edited by Jonathan Jansen & Jess Auerbach. Switzerland: Springer, 15-43. URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31913-6.
Clark, M. [in print] Writing – Images, in Do Less Harm, edited by Thompson, C & Thomas, K. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Clark, M. [in preparation] Designing the Clinic: Racialised Architecture & Cape Town’s Old Groote Schuur Hospital, in Space and the Hospital. International Network for the History of Hospitals (INHH).
Clark, M. [in preparation]. A Burden of Care: Clinical Photographs in the South African Medical Museum, in Care-ful museology: global perspectives on care work in the museum, edited by Nuala Morse & Sandra Dudley [Publisher tbc].
Clark, M. 2024. Follow the Photographs: Networks in and beyond the medical archive. Backchannels [online]. URL: https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=35644.
Clark, M. 2022. Colonial Connections: Race and Medicine across Continents. ArtHx [online]. URL: https://artandcolonialmedicine.com/colonial-connections/.
Clark, M & Phiri, C. 2022. Medical Visions in African Settings: A Work- Shop on Photography, Medicine, and Health in the History of Africa (Basel 19.–20.05.2022). Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies [online]. URL: https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/news/news-details/newsletter-1-2022-of-the-swiss-society-for-african-studies/.
Clark, M. 2022. Book Review of Anatomy of the Medical Image, edited by Axel Fliethmann & Christiane Weller. Annali Reviews Online 3, September [online]. URL: https://aro-isig.fbk.eu/issues/2022/3/anatomy-of-the-medical-image-michaela-clark/.
Clark, M. 2022. Clark on Edwards, 'Photographs and the Practice of History'. Book review of Elizabeth Edwards. Photographs and the Practice of History. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 184 pp. $24.25 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-350-12066-2; ISBN 978-1-350-12067-9. Humanities and Social Sciences Online (H-Net): H-Sci-Med-Tech Reviews [online]. URL: https://networks.h-net.org/node/9782/reviews/10629277/clark-edwards-photographs-and-practice-history.
Clark, M. 2021. Figuring the Nurse, a review of artist Sue Greeff’s online exhibition ‘Stick It’ at Eclectica Contemporary, Cape Town. The Polyphony [online]. URL: https://thepolyphony.org/2021/05/17/figuring-the-nurse/.
Clark, M. 2020. More than Medical: Insights into Clinical Photographs. Planet Bee Magazine 4. University of Manchester. URL: https://planetbeemagazine.wordpress.com/archive/.
Clark, M. 2020. Why We Should Think About Touch. AboutFace [online]. URL: https://aboutfaceyork.com/why-think-about-touch/.
Clark, M. 2020. (Not) Looking at Historical Medical Images, a review of ‘Emotions and Ethics: the Use and Abuse of Historical Images (A Workshop)’. The Polyphony [online]. URL: https://thepolyphony.org/2020/07/20/not-looking-at-historical-medical-images/.
Clark, M. 2018. Review: Biennial Conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, University of Liverpool. The Gazette 83. November: 10-11. URL: https://sshm.org/portfolio/the-gazette/.
Clark, M. 2018. Seeing things differently: a reflection on clinical photography. Hektoen International: a Journal of Medical Humanities. Winter [online]. URL: http://hekint.org/2018/03/15/seeing-things-differently-reflection-clinical-photography/.
Clark, M & Yeats, J. 2018. Putting Patients Online [Digitally Curated Exhibition]. URL: http://surgeryclinicalphotos.uct.ac.za/exhibits/show/putting-patients-online/putting-patients-online.
Clark, M & Walters, H. 2018. Science and Photography [Enhanced Podcast]. URL: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rr0vpt1yjn10tpe/Podcast%2001_sml.mp4?dl=0.
Clark, M. 2014. Keith Breckenridge in in the Building, review for 'Indexing the Human: From Classification to a Critical Politics of Transformation' seminar. URL: http://indexingthehuman.org/keith-breckenridge-is-in-the-building-14-august-2014/.
Clark, M. 2014. A Portrait of a Young Artist Series, review of Michaelis School of Fine Art graduate Exhibition (2014), art.co.za blog. URL: http://www.art.co.za/news/a-portrait-of-a-young-artist-series-michaelis-producing-artists.php.
Clark, M. 2012. A Portrait of a Young Artist Series, review of GradEx (Stellenbosch University's graduate exhibition) (2012), art.co.za blog. URL: http://www.art.co.za/news/a-portrait-of-a-young-artist-series-graduate-installation.php.
| Since 2024 | Research Associate (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*in) at the Department of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf; Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester; Associate editor for Backchannels (blog for the Society for Social Studies of Science, 4S). |
| Since 2022 | Advisory board member, Cape Medical Museum (South Africa). |
| 2022 | LEAP (Leadership in Education Awards Programme) Senior Fellow (AdvanceHE). |
| 2022-2023 | Interpretative Fellow, ArtHx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism. |
| 2020-2022 | Seminar convenor and co-coordinator (CHSTM PhD Seminars, University of Manchester, 2020-2022; Histories of the Body, Virtual HistSTM, 2021-2022). |
| 2019-2024 | PhD History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester. |
| 2018-2020 | Blended Teaching and Learning coordinator (Visual Arts Department), Stellenbosch University. |
| 2017-2024 | Collaborator and researcher, UCT Pathology Learning Centre, University of Cape Town. |
| 2017-2020 | Academic supervisor (Stellenbosch University, 2017-2019; Cape Town Creative Academy, 2017-2020). |
| Since 2016 | Researcher, reference manager and digital curator (Stellenbosch University, 2016-2018; University of Cape Town, 2017-2019, Africa South Art Initiative, 2018). |
| 2015-2019 | Contract lecturer (Visual Studies), Stellenbosch University. |
| 2014-2017 | Masters in Visual Studies, Stellenbosch University (cum laude). |
| 2013-2021 | Academic tutor and teaching assistant (Stellenbosch University, 2013-2014; University of South Africa, 2017-2021; University of Manchester, 2020-2021). |
| 2013-2014 | Bachelor (Hons) in Visual Studies, Stellenbosch University (cum laude). |
| 2009-2012 | Bachelor in Visual Communication Design, Stellenbosch University. |