Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media Culture and Communication at New York University. He is one of the founders of the academic discipline of visual culture in books like An Introduction to Visual Culture (1999/2009) and The Visual Culture Reader (1998/2002/2012). He is also Deputy Director of the International Association for Visual Culture and organized its first conference in 2012. His most recent book "The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality" (2011) won the Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. He is currently working on expanding the project into a trilogy. The second part will deal with resistance and visual culture in the global social movements since 2011, in which Mirzoeff was an active participant. His columns can be found at nicholasmirzoeff.com/2014.