Joshua Malitsky

Joshua Malitsky serves as Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University's Media School and directs the Center for Documentary Research and Practice. He holds adjunct appointments at the Russian and East European Institute, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

His research centers on documentary and nonfiction media within revolutionary political movements across Eastern Europe (USSR, Yugoslavia) and Latin America (Cuba). Key interests include nonfiction film's role in nation-building, intersections between documentary and science studies, linguistic anthropology applications in documentary, and sports documentary analysis. He authored Post-Revolution Non-Fiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations (2013) and is developing two book projects: (Supra)national Geographical Imaginaries: The Birth and Growth of Yugoslav Non-Fiction Film, 1944-1958 and A Companion to Documentary Film History.

As Director of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Malitsky oversees documentary research initiatives while teaching courses spanning ethnographic film, 1920s Soviet cinema, media theory, film propaganda, Marxism in cinema, and sports media.