Photography and Material Culture.
Matthew Daniel Mason is an archivist responsible for processing photographs and other visual resources at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. He has also worked in archives at the Wisconsin Historical Society and at Montana State University as well as received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Memphis (2008) and a Master of Arts in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies (2003). In addition to his more than two decades of archival work, Dr. Mason teaches courses in American history and the history of photography at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He is also a co-author of People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942 (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2011) and Through a Woman’s Eye: The Early 20th Century Photography of Alabama’s Edith Morgan (New South Books, 2015).