Lukey Ellsberg

Lukey Ellsberg is a multi-disciplinary scholar and visual artist focusing on technologies for
imaging, witnessing, and representing war. Lukey received a PhD in Religious Studies and
History of Science and Medicine from Yale University, with a dissertation titled “Nuclear
Imagism: Reality and its Antidotes in the American Atomic Age.” Their research uses
archival materials from early American nuclear war planning to rewrite narratives of
strategic dependence on nuclear weapons. Other research interests include critical
museum studies and the history of the image. Lukey graduated from Barnard College in
2016 with a BA in anthropology of science and medicine. They received an MA from Union
Theological Seminary in 2020.