Rachel Lee Hutcheson is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the College of Art and Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in Art History from Columbia University in 2024. Her research interests include histories of perception, photography, film and video, as well as media theory. Her dissertation, "Natural Color Photography, 1890-1920," explores the technological hybridity of early color formats against medium-specific definitions of photographic or cinematic images. She has presented her work nationally and internationally including the International Panorama Council Conference 2025, at the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University in the UK, the European Research Council project Chromotope, and at the Internationale Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) in Weimar, Germany. Her research has been published in
Sarah Angelina Acland (British, 1849-1930), Conda, a Moor, 1903. Two Sanger-Shepherd three-color photographs. Gibraltar. Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University, Oxford.