Dr. David Odo is a visual and material anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of art, with primary research interests in early Japanese photography, critical museology, and objects of colonial encounter. He has held numerous prestigious research fellowships at institutions including Harvard University, the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, and the University of Tokyo. Odo received his MPhil and DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford and an AB in East Asian Studies from Columbia University. He has served as Director of Student Programs and Research Curator of University Collections Initiatives at the Harvard Art Museums and is currently the Director of the Georgia Museum of Art. His work often explores the intersection of photography, history, and museum pedagogy.[1]
Unknown Japan: Reconsidering 19th-century Photographs2008 · Rijksmuseum · book · EnglishISBN 9789071450198Volume 4 of Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography.
The Journey of “A Good Type”: from artistry to ethnography in early Japanese photographs2015 · Peabody Museum Press/Harvard University · bookISBN 9780873654081
Expeditionary Photographs of the Ogasawara Islands, 1875-18762009 · History of Photography · journalVolume 33 (2), pp185-208.
