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Elena Bell<\/a>, doctoral student in International Studies and FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut just passed her written and oral examinations!<\/p>\n

Elena\u2019s thesis is presently titled, \u201cThrough the Lens of Indigenous Filmmakers: Film as Cross-Border Communication. Her research will examine film as a tool of self-representation via case studies of Indigenous filmmaking in Nunavut, Canada and Sakha, Russia. She shares the experience of taking her written and oral examinations below:<\/p>\n

\u201cI took written preliminary exams to test my breadth of knowledge on the literature pertaining to my substantive area of interest (primary foundational field) and my regional area focus. My primary foundational field is \u201cReligions, Cultures, Civilizations\u201d and Indigenous Studies. The geographic area I focus on is the Arctic region.<\/p>\n

The question I chose to answer during my exam prompted me to critically analyze film as \u201can instrument of Orientalism\u201d and evaluate its prospects as an instrument of decolonization. My regional exam question invited me to think about the Arctic as an \u201cemerging region\u201d, analyzing a variety of views and perceptions of the High North\u2014\u201cfrom the outside in\u201d, \u201cfrom the inside out\u201d, Indigenous vs. Western,\u00a0 Arctic\u2013centric vs. mainstream non\u2013Arctic.<\/p>\n

Grounding my work in the above foundational fields, I move forward with the dissertation research of film as a cross-border communication and self-representation tool, comparing the nature and effects of a recently developed phenomenon\u2014a cinematic boom in Nunavut (Canada) and Sakha Republic (Russia).\u201d<\/p>\n

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Elena Bell is a third-year student in the International Studies doctoral program in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She is also a third-year student in Inuktitut and has been awarded three Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships for language study with both Mick Mallon and Alexina Kublu. Scott Radnitz is the chair of her doctoral committee; Tony Lucero and Nadine Fabbi serve as committee members.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elena Bell, doctoral student in International Studies and FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut just passed her written and oral examinations! Elena\u2019s thesis is presently titled, \u201cThrough the Lens of Indigenous Filmmakers: Film as Cross-Border Communication. Her research will examine film as a tool of self-representation via case studies of Indigenous filmmaking in Nunavut, Canada and Sakha,<\/p>\n

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