Dr. Camille Dantzler is an Assistant Professor of Decolonial Studies in the Department of African American and Diaspora Studies with an expertise in African film and literature, gender studies, art and culture policy, digital humanities, and critical trauma studies. Dantzler is a 2022-2024 Equity in Action Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Kean University in the Department of History and Africana Program. Her research centers on Central-East African film and history as sites of contested space in the exercise of political autonomy. The use of filmic expression as a critical and creative pathway to understanding gendered realities in postconflict contexts has been a primary focus to examine media discourse as historiographical indicators of governance and civil society. More broadly, current and future work lies in women and gender studies, film studies, digital and new media studies, migration studies, and developmental policy in Africa and the African Diaspora.
