Kiku Adatto is an award-winning teacher at Harvard University and an author, scholar and commentator on art, popular culture, and civic life. She is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard and teaches in Harvard’s interdisciplinary Social Studies Program.  

Her book, Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op (Princeton University Press), explores the use and abuse of images in photography, television, movies, and social media. It has been published in multiple languages.  Her writings on the media helped spark a national debate on presidential campaign coverage in the United States.  Adatto’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, the Atlantic, Time Magazine, Commonweal, and other national publications.  She has blogged for the Huffington Post and has appeared on public television and public radio stations in the United States and abroad. Her current book project is a work of narrative nonfiction and cultural analysis, The World Next Door: A Journey Across the Divide Between Neighbors and Strangers. Read more.