Véréna Paravel

Véréna Paravel born 21 April 1971 Neuchâtel is a French anthropologist and artist who works in film video and photography Paravel was born in Neuchâtel Switzerland to French parents and grew up in Algeria Portugal Togo Côte dIvoire the Soviet Union and France She taught at the Université de Toulouse and received her PhD in Anthropology and Communication Sciences from the Université de Toulouse II She later worked with Bruno Latour at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris In 2004 she moved to the United States where she had a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University Since 2006 Verena Paravel has worked with Lucien CastaingTaylor at the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University She has been a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University and in 201213 she was the Frieda L Miller Fellow in Film Video Sound and New Media at the Film Study Center and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study She is also on the master class faculty at the Ecole des Arts Politiques at Sciences Po in Paris In 2013 she and CastaingTaylor jointly received the True Vision Award from the TrueFalse Film Festival Her works in film and video have screened at Berlin Locarno New York Toronto and other film festivals They include 7 Queens 2008 Interface Series 200810 Foreign Parts 2010 and Leviathan with CastaingTaylor 2012