Thomas S. Rankin

Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Education

• M.F.A., Georgia State University 1987

• M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1983

• B.A., Tufts University 1980

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).

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