is a PhD candidate in Communications at Columbia University and an adjunct lecturer in Media Studies at New York University. Her writing on the visual arts, film and photography has appeared in the Journal of Visual Culture, Studies in Documentary Film and Afterimage. Her research addresses global visual culture in conflict and post-conflict contexts and probes the relationships between artistic and political praxis, narrative, the process of artistic creation under “emergency” and “crisis” conditions and the potential of the visual arts as media, cultural and socio-political critique.