Julie Crooks, Assistant Curator, Photography at the AGO, received her PhD in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where her research focused on historical photography in Sierra Leone, West Africa and the diaspora. She has curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions in Toronto since 2006, including No Justice, No Peace: From Ferguson to Toronto in February 2017, co-curated with Reese de Guzman (co-organized by the Ryerson Image Centre and BAND). She’s also the co-curator for the Royal Ontario Museum's Of Africa project, where she was a Rebanks Postdoctoral Fellow from 2014 to 2016.
