Vanessa Bateman's research spans art and visual culture, environmental history, history of science, and museum studies from the nineteenth century to the present. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Researcher for the NWO-Vici project "Moving Animals: A History of Science, Media, and Policy in the 20th Century" at Maastricht University (Netherlands). There, Vanessa leads the subproject on "Seasonal Migrations," researching the history of migratory animals and human-animal interactions from a cultural history perspective, looking at both the role of visual media in understanding the movement of animals, as well as the visual archive and its very movement and circulation.

 

Her book project (tentatively titled) "Screening Wildlife" examines the overlooked role photo and film lectures played in North American grassroots environmental conservation in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Vanessa holds a PhD in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the University of California San Diego with a Specialization in Anthropogeny from the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA). She is from Toronto, Canada and lives in the Netherlands.