# Graduate Students ## expand\_more [### Nuotama Bomodo ](/people/nuotama-bomodo)Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies person [### Santiago Bonilla ](/people/santiago-bonilla)Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies ![ryyu](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ves/files/screenshot_2023-11-28_at_10.50.38_am.png?itok=cP323bqe) [### Max Bowens ](/people/max-bowens) Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies Film Study Center Fellow: 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023 Max Bowens is a filmmaker and PhD Candidate in Film and Visual Studies, with secondary fields in Anthropology and Critical Media Practice. His research concerns the relationship between art and biometrics, and has been supported by the Getty Predoctoral... ![Max Bowens](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ves/files/max_bowens_-_id_photo.png?itok=7soa3UfG) [### Yongyu Chen ](/people/yongyu-chen)Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies Teaching Fellow Yongyu Chen is a writer & a third-year PhD student in Film and Visual Studies. Their work concerns photography, queer theory, potentiality, & the ontology & ethics of worlds. They have a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Spanish from Cornell University. ![yc](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ves/files/yc_updated_photo.jpg?itok=vnXcYSah) [### Olivia Crough ](/people/olivia-crough)Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies Teaching Fellow Olivia Crough is a PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies. Her areas of research include Russian and Soviet art and film, experiments in nonfiction, and cinema’s relationship with political economy, waste, and wetlands. As a critic, she contributes to... ![vds](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-03/OliviaPortrait%20copy.jpeg?itok=uF2FqM1r) [### Thotti Forneiro ](/people/thotti-forneiro-0) Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies person [### Tarik Garrett ](/people/tarik-garrett)Graduate Student Teaching Fellow Tarik Garrett is an artist working between Los Angeles and Cambridge, MA. His artwork and his research are rooted in African diasporic cultural traditions in the Americas. Garrett works in sculpture, photography, video, printmaking, and audio, with a... person [### Keisha Knight ](/people/keisha-knight) [kknight\[at\]g.harvard.edu](mailto:kknight[at]g.harvard.edu)Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies Teaching Fellow Keisha is a PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University who has spent the majority of her adult life in Asia and New York City. Keisha holds a BA from Barnard College in Comparative Religion and an MA in Media Studies from Pratt... ![k](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ves/files/keisha_grass_crop96.jpg?itok=nE1W2N_f) [### Kendra McLaughlin ](/people/kendra-mclaughlin)Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies Kendra McLaughlin is a Canadian filmmaker and researcher. At Harvard, she is a PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies and a Masters student in Anthropology, with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice. She has also been a fellow at the Film Study... ![feewer](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ves/files/kendramclaughlin_2023_square.jpg?itok=lz48Le3Q) [### Emilia Mello ](/people/emilia-mello) Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies Emilia Mello is an Brazilian-American filmmaker, artist and scholar based in São Paulo, Brazil. Her first feature documentary, SEM DEUS, SEM DEMÔNIO (No Kings), premiered at CPH:DOX in 2020 and played at the True/False Film Festival 2021 and MoMA Doc... ![wrgaw](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-04/headshot_Emilia_Mello.jpeg?itok=HEtYSQxx) [### Mahan Moalemi ](/people/mahan-moalemi) Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies Mahan Moalemi is a writer and doctoral candidate in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. His dissertation, tentatively titled “The Disabled Object: A Critique of Reparative Reason,” examines the forms of disablement among... ![Mahan Moalemi](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ves/files/download_01.png?itok=_b_KKCLI) [### Luise Mörke ](/people/luise-moerke) Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies Luise Mörke's academic work revolves around the relation between aesthetic forms and global capitalism, specifically in post-reunification Germany. Before joining Harvard’s Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies as a PhD student, she studied Art... ![42455](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-03/IMG_1184%20%281%29%5B63%5D.jpeg?itok=HBkxuSuY) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")