ELIZABETH A. BURNS is the Creative and Operations Director of The Burns Archive and Press. Liz has curated numerous exhibitions, created many books, and consulted on myriad documentaries and films. In 2002, under a grant by the United States and Israeli governments, she produced A Dream Deferred, The African American Experience 1848-1928, the inaugural exhibition at the Center for the Study of the United States in Haifa, Israel. Other exhibits she has prepared feature works on hand-painted Japanese photography, memorialization, criminology, Lewis Hine, the SS Ben Hecht, and African American history. Her books include Sleeping Beauty II, Geisha: A Photographic History, 1872-1913, The Burns Archive Medical Specialty Series, Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons: Medical Photography and Symbolism, Mensur & Schmiss: German Dueling Societies, and Setting Sun: Painted Photographs of Meiji Japan. She was the onset photographic historian consultant on the HBO/Cinemax series THE KNICK and PBS’ MERCY STREET. Liz lives in New York City and actively promotes photography and history through publications, exhibitions, and events.