ESSAYS - Rachel Somerstein is an associate professor of journalism at SUNY New Paltz. She has written for the Washington Post, Guernica, and Wired, among many other publications. Invisible Labor is her first book. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family.

Essays

From Baby Blues to Depression, Science

A Photographer’s Wife, The Rumpus

How to Survive a Vivisection, Longreads

What to Expect When You’re Unsuspecting, Deborah Copaken’s Ladyparts

How Women photographers can expand our view of conflict, Women's Media Center

We Can't Remember What We Haven't Seen: Media, War, and the Future of Collective Memory, Afterimage

The Selective Memory of 9/11 Iconography, Guernica

Reenvisioning Reality, ART + AUCTION