Seon Shim
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Education
M.A., New York University, 2025
About
I’m a graduate student pursuing PhD in Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. My primary interests lie in production sites for representations of disability within the audiovisual mediascapes of film and television.
I’m also a documentary filmmaker. My master’s project at NYU is based on my fundamental belief that any ethnography research should be legible to its interlocutors. I plan to continue creating new, innovative ways of producing ethnography.
Research
Disability
Publications
Shim, Seon. 2025. “Sugarcane Heterotopias: Daniel Bustos-Echeverry’s film “A Future Buried in the Past”.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, May 20. https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/series/sugar-cane-heterotopias?token=fiS2YanafaZY44Dkd1lvH9QPcgDUDvLn&x-craft-live-preview=HJLoG107w1
Shim, Seon. 2025. “How to Paint Ethnographically: A Dialogue with Filmmaker Daniel Bustos-Echeverry.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, May 20. https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/how-to-paint-an-ethnography?token=9v_NvWhzCIbxdcyA63WNb6ohV1kM5hcK&x-craft-live-preview=00XX3626Vc
Awards
The Faculty of Arts Graduate Award
International Tuition Award
President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award
GSAS Draper Scholarship
National Humanities and Social Sciences Scholarship
New York International Film Awards Quarter-Finalist