As a filmmaker, historian and media scholar with an extensive exhibition and publication record, I combine digital media creation with the following fields: the history of science; critical theory & historiography; film and media history; public history & museum studies; documentary studies; multimedia production and installation art. I have taught lecture, seminar and media production courses at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and at Harvard College. I received my M.A. in American Studies from Yale University in 2002, was a Fellow in Filmmaking at the Film Study Center at Harvard between 2003 and 2005, and was granted my Ph.D. in the History of Science from Harvard University in November 2007. My digital films and installations, like my dissertation, explore the interwoven themes of media, technology, history and aesthetics that are also brought to the fore in my work teaching graduate and undergraduate students.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Ph.D., 2007, History of Science.
Dissertation: "Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Animal Skin and the Media of Reconnaissance."
Main Advisor: Peter Galison. Readers: D. N. Rodowick, Alexander Nemerov and Katharine Park.
Areas of Specialty: History of the Modern Life Sciences; Documentary & Experimental Digital Film Production; Critical Approaches to Documentary Studies; Visual Representation in Science; Global & Transcultural Media Studies; American Cultural History; Material Culture Studies; Science, Media & Society; Contemporary Multi-media History.
YALE UNIVERSITY
M.A., 2002, American Studies.
HARVARD COLLEGE
A.B., 1999, History and Science, summa cum laude.
2007
Research Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Mellon Foundation Institute for Historical Research Dissertation Fellowship, 2006-2007.
2006
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 2002-2006.
U.S. Army Military History Fellowship in the Material Culture of the Military, 2005-2006.
2005
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities Media Production Award.
Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies Summer Research Award.
Best of Festival Award from the Lago International Film Festival.
Filmmaking Award from the Film Study Center at Harvard University, 2003-2005.
2004
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Research Award.
Jewish Studies Center at Harvard Award for Research and Scholarship.
Harvard Graduate Society Award for Study and Travel.
2003
Graduate Student Prize for "Best Paper at Conference," American Academy of the Sciences.
Graduate Society Summer Research Award.
2002
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 2001-2002.
1995-99
Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize (1999) for "The Soul in the Skin: William Temple Hornaday and the Buffalo Group, 1886-1996." Elected to Junior Phi Beta Kappa (1998). Charles Warren American History Fellow (1998). Phi Beta Kappa Iota Research Prize (1998). Harvard-Radcliffe Research Fellow (1998). Agassiz Award (1996-1999). Harvard Scholarship (1996-1999). Detur Book Prize for Achievement (1996).
Dr. Hanna Rose Shell
Society of Fellows
Harvard University
78 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
shell (at) fas.harvard.edu
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