Sam Hawksford White

Biography	Sam Hawksford White is a third-year PhD student at the University of Hull’s Centre for Water Cultures as part of a Leverhulme Trust funded partnership. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MSt in Building History and holds a BA in Art History from the University of London. His research lies at the intersection of environmental history and the history of photography, with a concentration on the photojournalistic coverage of natural hazards and environmental change. In his current project, he investigates how press and government photographers reported from a series of devastating flood and drought emergencies in the Depression-era United States. Project title: ‘Swirling Dust – River Rising’: A Comparative Analysis of Drought and Flooding in 1930s American Documentary Photography and Film’.
Research Interests	Environmental History, History of Photography, Documentary Studies, Modern American History, Media History

Biography

Sam Hawksford White is a third-year PhD student at the University of Hull’s Centre for Water Cultures as part of a Leverhulme Trust funded partnership. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MSt in Building History and holds a BA in Art History from the University of London. His research lies at the intersection of environmental history and the history of photography, with a concentration on the photojournalistic coverage of natural hazards and environmental change. In his current project, he investigates how press and government photographers reported from a series of devastating flood and drought emergencies in the Depression-era United States.

Project title: ‘Swirling Dust – River Rising’: A Comparative Analysis of Drought and Flooding in 1930s American Documentary Photography and Film’.

Research Interests

Environmental History, History of Photography, Documentary Studies, Modern American History, Media History