Join ICW as we host Carolin Görgen, Associate Professor of American Studies at Sorbonne Université. Dr. Görgen will share her research on the California Camera Club, one of the largest photography networks in the early 20th century. Dr. Görgen will be joined by Dr. Bill Deverell, ICW Co-Director.

Carolin Görgen is Associate Professor of American Studies at Sorbonne Université. A historian of photography and the American West, she researches the histories of photo networks in the western United States and their environmental afterlives. Görgen’s research has been supported among others by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Huntington Library, and the Thomas Mann House. She was a 2025 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles.