Nathaniel Brunt

Dr. Nathaniel Brunt is an interdisciplinary scholar, documentarian, and educator. His documentary and academic work critically examines modern armed conflict and the way it is, and has been, represented photographically. Trained as a cultural historian and documentary photographer, he is interested in the manner in which individuals, institutions and groups understand and make sense of their worlds visually during wartime. 

Dr. Brunt completed his PhD in the Communication and Culture joint program at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University. His research was supported by SSHRC and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, he obtained two master's degrees from the University of Kent's War, Media and Security program and the Communication and Culture joint program at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University.

Dr. Brunt's photographic and academic work has been widely published and exhibited internationally. He is currently working on long term documentary and research projects in Northern Iraq and Kashmir and is a cross-appointed postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria's Centre for Global Studies and the University of Victoria Libraries. While diverse in format, Brunt's work is connected by a commitment to producing creative and scholarly projects that personalize the often-abstract nature of modern war.