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Zoe Graham

Zoe Graham

Doctoral Student Fellow

Doctoral Student, Department of Cinema Studies, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Project: Reclaiming Rouch: the Transnational Legacy of the Ateliers Varan documentary film school

Zoe Graham is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cinema Studies and a documentary filmmaker in the Culture and Media Program at NYU. Her dissertation, entitled ‘Reclaiming Rouch: the transnational legacy of the Ateliers Varan documentary film school’, explores anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch’s pedagogical legacy, through the Ateliers Varan global documentary film school, with a particular focus on its work in Mozambique and Brazil. In addition to the Center for the Humanities doctoral fellowship, her research has been generously funded by the Social Science Research Council, NYU’s Corrigan Fellowship and the Provost’s Global Research Initiative. Zoe holds a BA in Modern Languages from Oxford University and an MA in International Journalism from Falmouth University, UK. Her documentary films have screened at international film festivals and been used for advocacy by human rights organizations.