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Thomas S. Rankin

Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Box 90802, Durham, NC 27708-0802
1317 W Pettigrew St, Durham, NC 27705

Overview


A photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist, Tom Rankin has been documenting and interpreting American culture for nearly twenty years. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (1993), which received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography, 'Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre': Photographs of a River Life(1995), Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (1997), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2000).

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History & Visual Studies · 2011 - Present Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Director, MFAEDA · 2008 - Present Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published April 3, 2024
The Waiting is Over. Full Frame Starts Today
Published December 19, 2023
New Archive in the Rubenstein Library: Heroism and Violence of Civil Rights Movement
Published September 20, 2023
Remembering Nancy Buirski, the Filmmaker Who Built the Full Frame Film Festival

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Recent Grants


Graduate Film Scholarship

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Princess Grace Foundation-USA · 2018 - 2020

Film Fellowship

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Princess Grace Foundation-USA · 2015 - 2016

UndraBorn: Extraordinary Children

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2009 - 2010

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Recent Artistic Works


Outlands: Land Over Time

Exhibit September 1, 2011

Place Meets Time

Exhibit August 1, 2010

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Education, Training & Certifications


Georgia State University · 1987 M.F.A.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · 1983 M.A.
Tufts University · 1980 B.A.