Sarah Lewis
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Sarah Lewis

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Sarah Lewis is currently the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and the founder of Vision & Justice. She has authored and edited over 60 publications including The Unseen Truth, winner of the American Book Award; the bestseller, The Rise, translated into 7 languages; the award-winning volumes, Carrie Mae Weems and “Vision & Justice”; as well as Coreen Simpson and Race Stories. Lewis previously held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Modern, London, served as a Critic at Yale University School of Art, and curated the SITE Sante Fe Biennial. She left her museum positions to teach at Harvard. Her work focuses on the role of narrative—art and culture—for overcoming societal failures, which has brought her work into the discourse on racial justice, particularly in the United States and around the world. To advance this work, she has organized landmark Vision & Justice convenings, founded a Vision & Justice Book Series to transform the canon of lens-based artists, and has curated many exhibitions, including If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground, opening at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago in September 2026. A frequent speaker at universities and conferences, her mainstage TED talk, Embrace the Near Win, has received 3.1 million views. Lewis was named to the 2026 TIME List, The Closers, in recognition of her work toward greater equality in the United States. She is the recipient many awards including the Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship at Harvard University (2025), the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2022), the Arthur Danto/ASA Prize from the American Philosophical Association (2022), the Freedom Scholar Award from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (2019), and the Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research from the International Center of Photography (2017). She received honorary degrees from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2026), the Institute for Doctoral Studies in Visual Arts (2026), and Pratt Institute (2024) and was asked to deliver commencement addresses for MassArt (2026), Pratt Institute (2024), Capella University (2021), and Yale University School of Art (2019). She serves on the boards of Thames & Hudson Inc. and Civil War History journal and served on the Yale Corporation Committee on Honorary Degrees. Lewis received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, an M. Phil from Oxford University, an M.A. from Courtauld Institute of Art, and her Ph.D. from Yale University. She lives in Cambridge, MA.
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    • The Rise

    • Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
    • By: Sarah Lewis
    • Narrated by: Sarah Lewis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-14
    • Language: English
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