DR. HANNA ROSE SHELL Society of Fellows at 78 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

EDUCATION HARVARD UNIVERSITY Ph.D., 2007. Dissertation: “Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Animal Skin and the Media of Reconnaissance.” Areas of Specialty: & Media Studies; History of Technology; History of Documentary & Experimental Film; Multi-Media and Critical History; Museum & Material Culture Studies; Documentary and Experimental Film and Video Production.

YALE UNIVERSITY M.A., 2002, American Studies.

HARVARD COLLEGE A.B., 1999, History and Science, summa cum laude.

PUBLICATIONS: IMAGE & TEXT, MOVING & STILL & MEDIA: Secondhand (Pepe) (24 min., © 2007). Official Selection, Slamdance Film Festival 2008; Honorable Mention/Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Best Documentary, Brooklyn Arts Coucil Film Festival; Best Musical Score, Rhode Island International Film Festival. Screenings at the Society for Science & Literature Conference (2007), the Harvard Film Archive, Wellesley College; Laredo Experimental Art Festival, Nanjing Normal University, Bangkok Community Gallery; Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference Special Screening. Petticoat Lane at the Venice Biennale (40 min., ©2006). Video collaboration installed in the “Cities, Architecture and Society” exhibition at the Architecture Biennale. September- November 2006. Lives and Afterlives of the Social Fabric (30 min., ©2006). Produced at the Comparative Media Studies Center at MIT and the Film Study Center at Harvard, with the support of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Documentary Educational Resources. Locomotion in Water (13 min., ©2005). Produced at the Film Study Center at Harvard. Screened at: Anthology Film Archives (New York City) 8/06; Cinema Arts Centre (Huntington, NY) 8/06; Orphans Documentary Film Conference (Columbia, NC) 05/06. Center for the Arts at SUNY (Buffalo, NY) 11/05; Margaret Mead Film And Video Festival (New York City) 11/05; TopKino! (Vienna, Austria) 10/05; Scinema: International Festival of Science Film (toured throughout Australia and New Zealand) 8/05; Lago International Film Festival (Trevise, Italy), 7/05, won “Best of Festival Award;” Naples International Film Festival (Naples, Italy) 6/05. First Place, Best Young Director, International Science Film Festival (Milan, Italy), 2008. Aqua Kinema (90 min., ©2005). Produced at the Film Study Center at Harvard. Four-channel video installation, commissioned by the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany. Installed as part of the exhibition “Making Things Public.” March- November 2005. The Polyvocal Object: An Interactive Multi-media Exhibit (©2004). Produced in collaboration with the Collection for Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard. Co-directed with Peter Galison. Installed in the permanent gallery of the Harvard Museum of Historical Scientific Instruments.

ARTICLES: “Earthworks: The Ceramic Display of Natural Knowledge in Clay” in The Making of Materials: Material Culture in Modern Science, 1600-1800 , ed. Ursula Klein and Emma Spary (forthcoming). “Ole Cloes.” Thresholds 34 (Fall 2007). “Textile Skin: Lives and Afterlives of the Social Fabric in Haiti” Transition 96 ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame A. Appiah (Fall 2006): 151-163. “On American Camouflage and Photography: A Wonderfully Deceptive Appearance of Flatness,” in Alphabet Manifesto: New Theories of Photography, ed. Laura Wexler. New Haven, Photographic Memory Workshop, 2006. “Things Under Water: Etienne-Jules Marey’s Aquarium Laboratory and Cinema’s Assembly,” in Dingpolitik: Atmospheres of Democracy, ed. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005, pp. 326-332. “The Face of Extinction: The Case of Martha the Last Passenger American Pigeon,” Natural History Magazine (May 2004). “Casting Life, Recasting Experience: Bernard Palissy’s Occupation between Maker and Nature,” Configurations 12 (Winter 2004): 1-40. “Skin Deep: American Taxidermy, Embodiment and Extinction,” in The Past, Present & Future of Natural History Museums (San Francisco: Academy of Sciences, 2004), pp. 88-112. “The Last Wild Buffalo,” Smithsonian Magazine (February 2000): 26-32.

EDITED VOLUME: General editor, The Extermination of the American Bison [1889] by W. T. Hornaday (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002). In addition to editorial work, authored the volume’s introduction, entitled “Soul in the Skin: William T. Hornaday and the Buffalo Group, 1896-1996.”

TEACHING

RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN (RISD) “Making Science: Models, Images and the Production of Scientific Knowledge, 1500-2006.” Visiting Faculty. Developed lecture course syllabus, lesson plans, studio sessions, and laboratory assignments for innovative, interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of science and art. Lectured twice weekly and met with students. January-June 2006. HARVARD UNIVERSITY “Science and Gender Studies in the U.S.” Tutorial Leader. September 2004-June 2005. “Science, Feminism and Activism in America: 1945 to 2005.” January-June 2004. “Art and Nature in Science.” Lecture entitled “Early Modern Ceramics and Science” in Katharine Park’s seminar, 10/05. “History of the American Environment.” Lecture entitled “American Conservation History” in David Spanagel’s course, 3/05. “Introduction to American Photojournalism.” Instructor at . Fall 1997- Spring 1999. “Introductory Methods in the History of Science.” Curriculum Development. 2004-2005. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT) Hanna Rose Shell 2

“Environmental History.” Lecture “Preservation History” in Harriet Ritvo’s course, 2/06. BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VISUAL ART Guest Lecturer and Critic. Dushan Petrovich’s “Seminar for Graduate Students,” 2/06. WELLESLEY COLLEGE Guest Lecturer, Gen Hyacinthe’s “Art of the African Diospara, 10/07. Lecture entitled “Lives and Afterlives of the Social Fabric: Cross-Cultural Textile History.”

MEDIA EDUCATION

DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES President of Fabrik Films, Cambridge, MA. In association with Documentary Educational Resources, directed and produced the documentary film Secondhand (2007) and new- media educational materials (2001-2005). Organized educational workshops on media literacy in New York City and Jacmel, Haiti. Projects supported by: The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, The Jewish Studies Center at Harvard University and The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. ARCHIVE FILMS (GETTY IMAGES) Historical Photography and Film Researcher and New Media Producer in New York City, 2000. Consultation and coordination with book publishers, universities and new-media educational outlets in the United States and Canada. CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING Analysis of educational media holdings of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), 1999. Coordinated evaluation of viability of CPB media redistribution to American secondary schools and public universities led by Pricewaterhouse Coopers in New York City. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Research Fellow in Oral History and Visual Education, 1998. Smithsonian Institution Archives. Researched museum history, conducted and compiled video interviews and catalogued visual materials at the Library of Congress and the National Museum of Natural History. EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL International and Screenings Coordinator, 1997. Facilitated participation of foreign filmmakers in international film festival. Organized screenings of Scottish documentary shorts and workshops on the history of the documentary tradition in the United Kingdom.

INVITED LECTURES & COLLOQUIA

CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA AT U.C. BERKELEY (Berkeley, CA) Interactive Media Lecture Series. Title: “Productive Mimesis and the Media of Disappearance: Abbott Thayer's Modeling of Invisibility in Nature, 1890-1918.” March 2007. DEPARTMENT OF WAR STUDIES AT KING’S COLLEGE (London UK) Military History Series. Title: “Hide and Seek: Camouflage and Modern War.” February 2007. U.S. ARMY CENTER FOR MILITARY HISTORY (Washington DC) U.S. Army Public Lecture Series. Title: “A Cultural History of Camouflage.” August 2006. AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (New York City) Art-Science Collision Series. Title: “On the Diorama: Reflections on Taxidermy.” With Hiroshi Sugimoto and Steve Quinn. February 2006. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, MA)

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MIT Environmental Series. Title: “Cultivating Pond life and Decoding Fossils: The Emergence of Environmental History.” October 2004. MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE (Berlin). Science on Screen Academy. Titles: “Locomotion in Water” & “On the Panorama.” Featured filmmaker and commentator. August 2004.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Chair and Organizer, Co-Plenary Session “Science & Cinema: Audio-Visual Science Pedagogy and Experiments on Film” at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 2007. “Chameleonic Cinema: Filming the Science of Strategic Concealment,” History of Science Society [HSS] Annual Meeting, November 2007. “Len Lye, Experimental Film and the Inculcation of the Documentary Subject.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies [SCMS] Annual Meeting (Chicago), March 2007. “Productive Mimesis and the Art of Disappearance: On Camouflage.” History of Science Society [HSS] Annual Meeting (Vancouver), November 2006. “Deleuze under Water: On Cinema’s Post-Modern Assembly.” Interval: A Media Studies Conference/Confluence at SUNY (Buffalo, NY), November 2005. “Hide: Reframing American Wartime Natural History and the Diorama Movement.” HSS Annual Meeting (Austin, TX), November 2004. “Casting Life: Bernard Palissy’s Occupation between Maker and Nature.” HSS Annual Meeting (Cambridge), November 2003. “Embodying Extinction.” Featured paper in symposium “The Past, Present and Future of Natural History Museums.” Awarded “Graduate Student Prize.” American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting (San Francisco), June 2003. “The Soul in the Skin: William Temple Hornaday and the Buffalo Group.” HSS Annual Meeting (Milwaukee), November 2002.

HONORS & AWARDS

2007 - Junior Fellowship, Society of Fellows, Harvard University (2007-2009). Research Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Mellon Foundation Institute for Historical Research Dissertation Fellowship. Best Filmmaker Award, International Festival of Science Filmmaking. 2006 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 2002-2006. U.S. Army Military History Fellowship in the Material Culture of the Military, 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 Conference 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 Hanna Rose Shell 4

(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 (1996).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Board Member, Berwick Research Institute of Boston 2007 – 2012 Judging Committee, Rhode Island Council for the Arts Filmmaker Grants 2006 – 2010 Forum for the History of American Science, Steering Committee 2006 – 2009 Peer Reviewer, The Journal of the Archives of Natural History 2004– Peer Reviewer, Documentary Box Magazine of Film and Multimedia 2001–

LANGUAGES Fluency: French; Proficiency: German & Spanish; Reading knowledge: Latin & Ancient Greek.

PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of Birth: 20 January 1978. Place of Birth: Ontario, Canada. Citizenship: U.S. & Canadian.

CONTACT INFORMATION

phone: 617-230-6900 fax: 617-495-2645 [email protected]

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