Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

Zeynep Devrim Gürsel is a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor in the department of International Studies at Macalester College. She teaches courses on global media industries, photography, ethnographic film and cultures of work. Her book Image Brokers: Visualizing World News in the Age of Digital Circulation (University of California Press, 2016) is based on fieldwork conducted in the United States, France and Turkey. It focuses on the production, distribution, and circulation of international news images and the changing cultures of photojournalism after digitalization. Specifically it addresses the labor and infrastructures behind news images as processes simultaneously of the production of representations and the reproduction of worldviews.

She is also the director of Coffee Futures, the first in a series of short ethnographic films that explore contemporary Turkish politics through the prism of the everyday life of women. (www.coffeefuturesfilm.com) Her next scholarly project investigates the intersections of photography, politics and sovereignty in the late Ottoman Empire.

She also writes children's books, only one of which has been published so far.