Kevin Coleman

Kevin Coleman’s research and teaching focus on the histories of capitalism, photography, and Catholicism in twentieth-century Latin America. He is the writer and director of Stolen Photo, a documentary film coproduced by Señal Colombia and supported by the National Film Board of Canada. He is also the author of A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic (University of Texas Press, 2016), translated into Spanish as Sabían que estaban haciendo historia (Guaymuras, 2019). He is co-editor of Capitalism and the Camera (Verso, 2021), translated into Chinese, 資本主義與相機──論攝影及榨取 [2024], and Coups d’état in Cold War Latin America, 1964-1982 (Cambridge University Press, 2024). His articles have been published in leading journals, including the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Radical History Review, and Photography and Culture. His research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright-Hayes, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. His research and teaching have been awarded prizes from the American Historical Association and the Canadian Historical Association.