Abbey Hepner is an Associate Professor of Art and at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She works at the intersection of art and science, investigating biopolitics and the use of health as a currency. Her recent work centers on the erased uranium town of Uravan, Colorado, creating a counter-archive that places institutional archives in dialogue with documentary film, tintype portraits, and oral history. Her book, The Light at the End of History, was published in 2021.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
2019-Present, Associate Professor of Art, Area Head of Photography
2020-2025, Board of Directors (elected), Society for Photographic Education
2024-2025, Chair, Affiliated Chapter Committee, Society for Photograph Education Member of the Atomic Photographers Guild
(2023-Current) I am a visual artist interested in nuclear issues, and I use archives extensively in my work. I also work with 19th-century photographic processes to reflect on how histories persist, recur, and resurface, embedding the past materially within the present.
