Barbara Lee Williams is an art critic in the San Francisco Bay Area and a lecturer in the History of Photography at Dominican University in San Rafael, CA. Her work has appeared in the Leonardo, LDR, Artweek, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle, Wendy Lesser's Threepenny Review, The Southern Quarterly, and many other venues. A former museum curator and online arts editor, Vice Chair of the Governing Board of Leonardo/ISAST and Chair of the Leonardo Prize and Awards Committee, she is currently at work on a study of the surrealist photographer Dora Maar focusing on issues of art and ethics.