Rachel Lee Hutcheson holds a PhD in Art History from Columbia University. Her research interests include histories of photography, film and video, twentieth century American art, media theory and media archaeology. Her dissertation, “Natural Color Photography, 1890-1920: Technology, Gender, Colonialism,” engages with the relationship between color, color vision, and photo-filmic technology at the turn of the twentieth century. Part of this research has been published in Grey Room no. 96 (Summer, 2024) and a forthcoming issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (Summer, 2025). She has presented her work at the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, the European Research Council project Chromotope, and at the Internationale Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) in Weimar, Germany. Her research has been supported by the Library of Congress, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the Mellon Humanities International Travel Fellowship. She has degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Virginia Commonwealth University.