Myles Little
is an Art History PhD candidate at the University of Southern California and a recipient of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate. Before entering graduate school, he spent almost a decade commissioning photography for magazines in New York, most recently as a Senior Photo Editor of TIME Magazine. In addition to that job, he curated the photography exhibition “One Percent: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality,” which traveled to thirty museums, galleries and festivals on five continents. Hatje Cantz published the catalogue in 2016; both Internazionale and TIME named it one of the best photography books of the year. His dissertation considers documentary photography in New York City circa 1965-1985, a time marked both by extraordinary electrical precarity — blackouts — as well as a “blackout” within the medium of photography itself, as it underwent a sustained critique by scholars and critics associated with OCTOBER magazine, among others.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., 2017 – Present
University of Southern California, Department of Art History.
Advisor: Vanessa R. Schwartz, Professor of History, Art History and Critical Studies, Director, Visual Studies Research Institute
GCERT, 2017 – 2020
University of Southern California, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate candidate
B.F.A, 2008
Savannah College of Art and Design, Photography Department
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2023
Graduate School Summer Research and Writing Grant, University of Southern California
2022
VSGC Summer Grant, University of Southern California
2020
VSGC Summer Grant, University of Southern California
2019
VSGC Summer Grant, University of Southern California
2019
Art History Summer Grant, University of Southern California
2018
VSGC Summer Grant, University of Southern California
2018
Art History Summer Grant, University of Southern California
2004-08
SCAD Scholar on Campus Scholarship, Savannah College of Art and Design
2004-08
SCAD Scholarship, Savannah College of Art and Design
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2018 – 2020
Research assistant for Prof. Vanessa Schwartz for Visual Studies Research Institute
University of Southern California
PUBLICATIONS
2016
One Percent: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality
(Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2016) Editor: Myles Little
www.onepercentshow.com