Jennifer Bajorek is a professor of comparative literature and visual studies at Hampshire College and a senior research associate at the University of Johannesburg. She is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in photography, art, and literature. Her work includes 20 years of collaborations in West African collections encompassing research, policy work, and conservation and restitution initiatives, and has been supported or recognized by numerous grants and awards, including a 2024 Arthur Rubin Outstanding Publication Award, for Unfixed (2020).
Bajorek will be a Belknap Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of English in Spring 2026. At Princeton, she will complete a manuscript on the materiality of photography in Africa and teach a course on photography, race, and restitution.