She received her PhD from the City University of New York – Graduate Center in 2010. In addition to researching social-media photographs, she also studies the temporal dimensions of the medium. Dr. Belden-Adams’s recent scholarship also examines the selfie, and on the intersections of sewage and photography in the decades following the medium’s birth. Her work has been published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in Photographies, Afterimage, Southern Studies, The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, and Cabinet.