Alumni

PhD 2022

Dissertation: “Rogue Images: The Birth of Visual Evidence”

Tory Jeffay received her PhD from the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley in 2022, with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. She holds a B.A. in Film Studies from Yale University. Her dissertation,“Rogue Images: The Birth of Visual Evidence” looks to the history of photography and film as evidence within law and policing from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century to better understand contemporary uses of visual evidence.

Her essay “‘...

PhD 2014

Dissertation: “Social Media: The News in Experimental Film, Video Art, and Performance after 1960”

Assistant Professor of Art History, Ohio State University

Erica Levin completed her Ph.D. in Film and Media at Berkeley in 2014 and is currently Assistant Professor of Art History at the Ohio State University.

She is completing a book entitled, The Channeled Image: Art and Media Politics After Television, which examines experiments by artists, radical filmmakers, and public television broadcasters in the 1960s concerned with the way images are...

PhD 2011

Dissertation: “‘Dying in Full Detail’: Mortality and Duration in Digital Documentary”

Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Smith College

Jennifer Malkowski completed their Ph.D. in Film & Media at Berkeley in 2011. They are now Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Smith College, after previously serving as Assistant Professor of Comparative Media Studies and of Film Studies at Miami University, and as a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the History and Theory of New Media at Smith College.

Malkowski is the author of Dying in...

PhD 2014

Assistant Professor of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University

Andrew Moisey earned his PhD in Film & Media from UC Berkeley in 2014. He is currently an assistant professor of History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Indiana University, and at Rutgers University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Cultural Analysis in 2015. His current project, Before Photography, is about the relationship between viewer and world in early modern pictures of real...