Sandra Ristovska

Sandra Ristovska studies the interplay between images and human rights, particularly in institutional and legal contexts. Her publications include a solo-authored monograph, Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession (The MIT Press, 2021), and an edited book, Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice (Palgrave, 2018). She has held the George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania as well as visiting fellowships with the Information Society Project at Yale Law—where she also served as an advisor to the Visual Law Project—the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University and the Center for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University. Ristovska is the recipient of the 2021 Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship for her work on video evidence.