AFVS graduate student Carolyn Bailey receives the 2024 Jonathan Kahana Graduate Student Writing Award in Documentary Studies

March 7, 2024

The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies is proud to announce that AFVS graduate student Carolyn Bailey has received the 2024 Jonathan Kahana Graduate Student Writing Award in Documentary Studies for her paper “Picture a Condition: Revisiting 1990s Media Activism through HIV/AIDS.” The award is given in honor of the late scholar and mentor Jonathan Kahana by the ... Read more about AFVS graduate student Carolyn Bailey receives the 2024 Jonathan Kahana Graduate Student Writing Award in Documentary Studies

FVS Grad Students Emilio Vavarella and Jessica Bardsley Featured in GSAS Research Matters Newsletter

August 29, 2023

Colloquy Podcast: A Short History of Technology and Thought: ...

AFVS graduate student Valerie Werder’s award-winning debut novel, Thieves, is published by Fence Books

August 8, 2023

Fence Books is proud to publish Valerie Werder’s debut novel, ...

College Looks Like This: 7 Student Photographers, 7 Campuses

July 7, 2023

Before the Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious admissions, we asked student photographers at seven very different schools to show us what community looks like on their campuses. Read More. Read more about College Looks Like This: 7 Student Photographers, 7 Campuses

AFVS Student Prizes

May 23, 2023

The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies congratulates the following AFVS concentrators recognized for their outstanding work with the following awards:

Artist Development Fellowships… awarded by the Office for the Arts

Awarded to Anne Charlotte Gillard ‘25 (multi-disciplinary), Isa Haro ‘24, Hannah Tsai Kim ‘24, Micaela Rosen ‘23-24 and Tamar Sella ‘25

Council Prize in Visual Arts...

How technology shapes what we know—and the questions we ask

April 5, 2023

Like a lot of kids, GSAS student Emilio Vavarella loved to draw spaceships when he was growing up in Italy. Unlike a lot of kids, however, he wasn’t most interested in whether his creations would jump to hyperspace or do battle with alien invaders. He was more curious about what life would be like for the people on board. Read More Read more about How technology shapes what we know—and the questions we ask

AFVS Senior Kiana Rawji’s short documentary MAMA OF MANYATTA (2022) will be premiering at the 2023 Pan African Film Festival

February 14, 2023

AFVS Senior Kiana Rawji’s short documentary MAMA...

AFVS student Dumebi Malaika Menakaya featured in the NY Times

November 10, 2022

In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, Ava Salzman, now a senior at Harvard, took a class on oral storytelling in times of crisis. Despite the awkwardness of an online setting, Ms. Salzman said she felt that she and her 19 classmates found refuge in their shared stories. Read More Read more about AFVS student Dumebi Malaika Menakaya featured in the NY Times

AFVS Doctoral Candidate Carolyn Bailey's project receives grant from The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

September 9, 2022

Carolyn Bailey is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, where her research is supported by a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). She is a lecturer in the Women's & Gender Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bailey holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from McGill University. Her work as a critic and scholar deals with contemporary visual culture, architecture, media theory, race and gender in visual art, and the histories of science and technology. She is an editor-at-...

Harvard Film Archive student-curated shows featured in the Harvard Crimson

November 30, 2021

The Harvard Crimson recently published an article, "Harvard Film Archive Student Group Screens Free Films Weekly" on the success of student-curated shows hosted by the HFA for the Harvard community this year. These screenings are organized by a non-hierarchical and open student group, including AFVS students Tiff A. Rekem ’22 and Ton-Nu Nguyen-Einh ’22, with full support from HFA...

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