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Jamie Berthe

Jamie Berthe

Faculty Fellow

Doctoral Student, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Project: An Art of Ambivalence: On Jean Rouch, African Cinema, and the Complexities of the (Post)Colonial Encounter

Jamie Berthe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Her research interests include ethnographic and documentary film, African cinema, postcolonial studies, French colonial history and cultural politics, visual anthropology, and visual culture. Her dissertation – “An Art of Ambivalence: On Jean Rouch, African Cinema, and the Complexities of the (Post)Colonial Encounter” – explores ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch’s relationship to French colonial history and African film. Prior to arriving at MCC, Jamie was an undergraduate at The American University in Paris and earned her MA in Cinema Studies from Tisch. She has also completed The Graduate Program in Media and Culture through NYU’s Department of Anthropology. Jamie’s dissertation work has received funding from The Georges Lurcy Fellowship Program, in addition to her fellowship at The Humanities Initiative at New York University.