Biography
Joshua Baldelomar is a PhD candidate in the Film and Media Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. His dissertation traces how media practices shaped relations and knowledges among brain scientists, patients, and publics in the early to mid-twentieth century across disciplinary and national boundaries, and how scientific media inspired public and artistic media that both accepted and questioned the meanings of selfhoods increasingly defined in neural terms. His research has received awards from Domitor and the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, and has been supported by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Max Kade Foundation, and the Osler Library at McGill University, among others.