A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer has been named a University of Arizona Presidential Scholar, the university's Center for Creative Photography announced this month.

David Hume Kennerly will be based at the CCP and will develop lectures and events that touch on photography, journalism, history, government, sociology and other topics, the center's director, Anne Breckenridge Barrett, announced in a letter to CCP supporters.

Kennerly won the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for Feature Photography at age 25, and he later was the chief White House photographer during President Gerald Ford's administration. "His body of work includes images from 12 presidential campaigns, several wars, including Vietnam, and many other significant historical moments," Barrett said.

The UA's president, Robert C. Robbins, made the appointment. Kennerly is the first Presidential Scholar appointed during Robbins' tenure.

"This is a solid indicator of the new and expanding role that the CCP plays in the interdisciplinary academic experience of UA students from across the campus," Barrett wrote.

The CCP opened in 1975 and now houses more than 90,000 photographs by more than 2,200 photographers. For more information, visit the center's website.