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Denise Oberdan

Denise Oberdan

Director of Administration

Denise is the Director of Administration for the department and works with faculty and staff to keep the department running smoothly.

Carpenter Center 103
p: (617) 496-8420

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

John Cowles Professor of Art and Anthropology
Director, Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL)
Castaing-Taylor is an anthropologist whose work conjugates art's negative capability with an ethnographic attachment to the flux of life and an engagement with the pressing ecological and political challenges of our day. His works include In and Out of Africa (1992, with Ilisa Barbash),... Read more about Lucien Castaing-Taylor

chukwumaa .

Visiting Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Spring 2024
Lecturer of AFVS 136S for the Spring 2023 semester

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Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant for AFVS 53AR

Judith Belzer

Visiting Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Fall 2023
Visiting Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Fall 2023
Max Bowens

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 fourth-year PhD Candidate in Film and Visual Studies, with secondary fields in Anthropology and Critical Media Practice. His...

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