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Education

2005 Concordia University (Montreal), B.A.
2006 University of Toronto, M.A.
2017 University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

American Cinema
Film Genres
Visual Literacy
The Documentary Tradition
World Cinema

Career Specialties

Patrick Ellis is a historian of film and media, with a special interest in how these subjects interact with the histories of cartography, medicine, science and technology.

Professional and Community Activities

Ellis is the author of (University of California Press, 2021) and has otherwise published in, e.g., Early Popular Visual Culture,ÌýFilm History, Imago Mundi, and The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

Ellis also does curatorial work and has programmed screenings or exhibits for the Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta), the Media Archaeology Lab (Boulder), the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) and the Wolfsonian Museum (Miami), among others.

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Honors and Awards

Excellence in Teaching Award, ÌÒñ«ÉçÇø (2022)
Award for Multimodal Innovation in Teaching, Georgia Institute of Technology (2019)
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2016–2017)
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley (2015)Ìý