# Affiliate Faculty [### Vincent Brown ](/people/vince-brown)Charles Warren Professor of American History Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies Vincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History, Professor of African and African-American Studies, and Founding Director of the History Design Studio at Harvard University. A native of Southern California, he was educated at the... ![jjj](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ves/files/vb_headshot.sharonaclr73.jpg?itok=5N82puEs) [### Tania Bruguera ](/people/tania-bruguera)Senior Lecturer in Media & Performance, Theater, Dance & Media Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies The installation and performance artist Tania Bruguera researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life, focusing on the transformation of social affect into political effectiveness. Her long-term projects have been intensive... ![Headshot of Tania Bruguera](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ves/files/tania_bruguera.jpg?itok=wpn2W50n) [### Chan Yong Bu ](/people/chan-yong-bu)Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies Chan Yong Bu’s research focuses on the entanglements of the body, science, and technology within media culture as crucial sites for human-nonhuman relations. In particular, Chan Yong works on industrial media in South and North Korea, media spectacles in... ![casewca](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/bu_chanyong.jpg?itok=bwMWW_2T) [### Peter Galison ](/people/peter-gallison)Joseph Pellegrino University Professor Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies Peter Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. In 1997 Galison was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; won a 1998 Pfizer Award (for Image and Logic) as... ![gggg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/galison.png?itok=7wwK0JGK) [### Jie Li ](/people/jie-li) Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies Harvard College Professor Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), excavates a century of memories embedded... ![Headshot of Jie Li](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ves/files/jieli_photo.jpg?itok=vFOs0YHR) [### Alex Rehding ](/people/alex-rehding)Affiliate Faculty person [### Alexander Rehding ](/people/alexander-rehding)Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, Department of Music Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. He obtained a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1998 and went on to postdoctoral fellowships at Cambridge, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton, before joining Harvard... ![gdfdsf](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/rehding_1_1.jpg?itok=WqkuqjyT) [### Moira Weigel ](/people/moira-weigel)Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies Education: PhD, Yale University, 2018 MPhil, Cambridge University, 2008 BA, Harvard University, 2007 Research Fields: I write and teach about the history, theory, and social life of media and communication technologies, from the early nineteenth century... ![naoesns](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Weigel-1-scaled-e1715889374659-qo9e5fgk55weyn8x1e5xfexps3gefayvn1gb2fv2ms.jpg?itok=8Uhqg7vS) [### Justin Weir ](/people/justin-weir)Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies Research Fields: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian prose, film, Russian intellectual history and literary theory Education: Ph.D. 1997 Northwestern University, Slavic Languages and Literatures M.A. 1993, Northwestern University, Slavic Languages... ![bdvjbv](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Weir-photo-copy-2-qc0maerqmf9sgnls1yej83mx4pl42ys2olu9h9kxzo.jpg?itok=EEs9sl5b) [### Alexander Zahlten ](/people/alexander-zahlten) Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies Alexander Zahlten's research interests center on film and audiovisual culture in East Asia, with a focus on Japan. His work explores fundamental shifts in how we engage with media through the connections between larger economic, social, and institutional... ![Headshot of Alexander Zahlten](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ves/files/zahlten_rijs.jpg?itok=iluzjqlj)