Kim Nelson, Director
Director of the Humanities Research Group, Kim Nelson's key research interests include historical consciousness and identity, methodologies of truth, and engaging public dialogue, which she has explored through audio documentary (CBC IDEAS 2023), her practice of live documentary, and in written explorations in essay and book form. Her creative work has been screened, performed, and broadcast internationally in the US, Europe, and Canada. She has held fellowships in Germany (DAAD 2012-203), Canada (HRG 2013-2014), and the US (NYU 2015-2016). Her past and ongoing creative research projects have received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Ministry of Heritage. She is the director of the Moving Histories Network, dedicated to international scholarship on history in moving images, and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image (2023), and the author of the book Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film (2024). Nelson holds a PhD in Media Studies from Babelsberg University in Potsdam, Germany. She is a Professor of Film and has been the HRG director since 2017.