معرفی
Zoé Samudzi is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University. She holds a Ph.D. in Medical Sociology (UCSF, 2021), MSc in Health, Community & Development (LSE, 2014), and B.A. in Political Science (University of Pittsburgh, 2012). Her research focuses on German imperialism, the Ovaherero and Nama genocide, settler colonialism in southern Africa, and the intersections between biomedicalization and colonial violence.
Research Interests
Samudzi investigates colonial legacies through spatial and visual frameworks, analyzing genocide memory, the ethics of visual testimony, and restitution of human remains. Her work interrogates how racialized dispossession persists in contemporary biomedical practices and spatial politics.
Awards & Recognition
- 2023 Simon Rockower Award for her critique of the Philip Guston retrospective
- 2023 Black Reconstruction Collective Artist Prize
Professional Roles
Associate editor at Parapraxis Magazine, contributing writer at Jewish Currents, Curatorial Research Fellow at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and artist-in-residence with the Pressing Matter project in the Netherlands.
