Dareen Hussein is a PhD candidate in the department of History of Art. She holds a BFA in Photography & Media from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and her MA in History of Art from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on anti-colonial cinemas of the Global South, with particular interest in Arab cinema and contemporary art practices. Her dissertation research explores linkages between the history of militant cinema and the emergence of Arab women’s cinema from the 1970s-80s.

Her writing has received awards and recognitions from institutions like the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Her most recent essay, “Thinking through Fragments: Speculative Archives, Contested Histories, and a Tale of the Palestine Archaeological Museum,” appears in FUTURE/PRESENT: Arts in a Changing America (Duke University Press, 2024). Dareen also organizes film and video programs, most recently at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the OSU Urban Arts Space. Currently, she is assisting the Exhibitions team at the Wexner Center with the installation of Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema, a traveling exhibition which premiered at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.