PAULINE SHONGOV

pauline.shongov[@]protonmail.com

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Ph.D. Film and Visual Studies, 2026

Secondary Ph.D. Field in Critical Media Practice, 2026 

A.M. in Film and Visual Studies, 2022

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

B.F.A. Fine Arts, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, 2018

B.A. College Scholar in Film, College of Arts & Sciences, 2018

AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES (SELECT)

2018-2025 Harvard Presidential Scholar, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University

2024-2025 Presidential Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University

2024-2025 Alan and Barbara Washkowitz Dissertation Fellowship Fund, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University

2025 ArtLab Residency, ArtLab at Harvard, Boston, MA

2025 ArtLab Project Grant, ArtLab at Harvard, Boston, MA

2025 HMUI Urban Research Grant, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, Harvard University

2024 LEF New England Flaherty Fellow, LEF Foundation

2024 Manfred Krüger Award, German International Ethnographic Film Festival

2024 Harvard Griffin GSAS Professional Development Fund, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University

2024 Graduate Research Travel Grant, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

2021-2023 FSC-Harvard Fellow, Film Study Center, Harvard University

2022-2023 HMUI Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, Harvard University

2023 Critical Media Practice Capstone Grant, Film Study Center, Harvard University

2023 Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University

2022 Material Research Fund, Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University

2022 Graduate Research Travel Grant, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

2021 Summer Predissertation Fellowship Grant, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University

2021 HMUI Urban Research Grant, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, Harvard University 

2020 Mellon-Funded Collaborative CMP Projects Grant, Film Study Center, Harvard University                        

2019 CMP Mellon Fellowship Grant, Film Study Center, Harvard University

2018 Casa Poli Residency, Coliumo Peninsula, Chile

2013-2018 Hunter Rawlings III Presidential Research Scholar, Cornell University

PRESS

2024 Journal of Social Vision, Swimming Pool, “New Perspectives on Prehod,” Interview

2024 Art Viewer, “Ecologies of Prehod at Swimming Pool,” Press release.    

2024 BNR Radio, “The Ecologies of Prehod Exhibition Presents Fragments of Bulgarian History,” Press release.   

2024 Bulgarian Telegraph Agency, “Pauline Shongov, Maya Shopova, and Borislav Angelov discuss the exhibition Ecologies of Transition,” Press release.

2024 Harvard Critical Media Practice, “Off-site: Ecologies of Prehod,” Press release.   

2024 Harvard Art Film and Visual Studies, “Off-site: Ecologies of Prehod,” Press release.

2024 Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, “Off-site: Ecologies of Prehod,” Press release.

2024 E-flux, “Metode Vol. 2: Being, Bathing, and Beyond,” Press release.

2023 Sliven Media, “Archaeologists from RIM – Sliven, New Bulgarian University, young scientists from UChicago and volunteers from Germany discovered new archaeological sites in the land of the Sliven village of Glofishevo,” Press release.

2023 Regional Historical Sliven Museum, “New archaeological sites in the Tundzha River valley, Sliven Municipality, within the territory of Glofishevo village,” Press release.

2023 Regional Historical Sliven Museum, “Searching for Archeological Sites and Studying Ancient Landscapes along the River Tundja (land of city Glofishevo, municipality of Sliven),” Archaeological field documentation, Print.

2023 Impressio.bg, “Two Late Iron Age settlements were discovered near the village of Glofishevo, in the Sliven region,” Press release.

2023 Mahan Moelemi, “Remediations,” Harvard Critical Media Practice exhibition, Curatorial statement.  

     

COMPLETE CV

Available upon request.