Susan Meiselas is a world renowned documentary photographer whose international work engages photography and social justice. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, her first major photographic essay, Carnival Strippers, focused on the lives of women doing striptease at New England country fairs in 1976. She is best known for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. In 1997, she completed a hundred-year visual history of Kurdistan, integrating her own work into the book Kurdistan: In the Shadow of ?History and developed akaKurdistan, an online paticipatory site for ?collective memory in 1998.