Joscelyn Jurich is a PhD candidate in Communications, Columbia School of Journalism and a writer. Her writing on the visual arts, film and photography has appeared in the Journal of Visual Culture, Studies in Documentary Film, Afterimage, Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, and in the recent book Performing Human Rights: Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South (2021).  Her research addresses global visual culture in conflict and post-conflict contexts and probes the relationships between artistic and political praxis, narrative re-formation and the potential of cultural production as socio-political and media critique. She is also interested in the relationship of photography and of the natural and built environment to individual and collective memory and memorialization in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where she has conducted fieldwork through two Harriman Institute travel grants and as a Meier Fellow at the Harriman Institute during 2017-2018. She previously worked as a journalist, editor and media trainer in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Egypt and has taught journalism at media studies at NYU.