Daniel Menzo joins Yale University Art Gallery as Marcia Brady Tucker Curatorial Fellow in Photography

Starting in September 2023, Daniel Menzo will join the Yale University Art Gallery’s Department of Photography as the Marcia Brady Tucker Curatorial Fellow. Daniel will be fully integrated into the Photography Department and participate in and contribute to all aspects of the department’s activities related to the Gallery’s photography collection. He will gain broad-based experience in academic museum education over the course of the fellowship, including coordination and support of class visits to the department’s busy study room for Prints, Drawings and Photographs; exhibitions planning and the development of related publications and programs; research; and ensuring the special care, security, and proper handling of the collection.

Daniel's research focuses on early studio portraiture and transnational practices of photography, as well as on gender, race, and sexuality in modern art of the Americas. In 2018, he completed his MA in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management at the University of Rochester, in partnership with the George Eastman Museum. Daniel has been a Graduate Public Humanities Fellow with the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook and Herstory Writer’s Workshop, and he was part of the inaugural cohort of SBU IDEA Grads in the spring of 2022. He is currently completing his dissertation on research that investigates the archive of Colombian portrait photographer Benjamín de la Calle (1869–1934) from a queer perspective.