Draft:Maria Hambourg

Career
Maria Morris Hambourg is a writer, independent curator, and consultant. She is also the founder of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In her role, she brought international attention to Metropolitan's collection of photographs.

In 1984, Hambourg was a visiting professor at Princeton University. In 1989, she was an adjunct associate professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

Education
In 1971, Hambourg graduated with her Bachelors at Wellesley College. She continued her studies at Columbia University where she completed her Ph.D on Atget.