BRIEF BIO:
Specializing in French and Francophone cinema and society, his interests range from the history of film technologies, narratives of body techniques, avant-garde and experimental movements, to contemporary film and media in Europe and Africa. His ongoing research examines the relationship between colonial media, the history of ethnographic film, and pre-cinema.  He has presented his work internationally, curated film programs, and published more than a dozen articles on colonial cinema, early hygiene films, francophone African cinema, and the history of French anthropology in French and English.  He is currently co-editing a volume entitled "Frenchness and the African Diaspora" related to the 2005 disturbances in France, and his monograph "French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism" has been published by University of Minnesota Press. He is also co-director of the African Studies Multi-Campus Research Group.