Lisa Krantz is an assistant professor at the University of Montana School of Journalism and a recent graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism’s doctoral program. Her research focuses on the intersection of journalism and trauma, an area she also studied during a fellowship with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard from 2019-2020 and as an Ochberg Fellow with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Krantz spent 24 years as a newspaper photographer, most recently at the San Antonio Express-News in Texas, and continues to photograph for national and international news organizations. She is part of The Washington Post team that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for the series “American Icon” about the devastating impact of the AR-15. She is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature photography. She has won POYi’s Community Awareness Award and has been placed in POYi’s Newspaper Photographer of the Year category several times. World Press Photo, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, ASNE, and the Scripps Howard Awards have also recognized her work. She taught as a teaching fellow at the University of Missouri and was an adjunct professor at Texas A&M-San Antonio and Florida Gulf Coast University.