Dareen Hussein is an artist, film programmer, and PhD candidate in the department of History of Art at the Ohio State University. Her research is invested in the histories and politics of Tricontinental film cultures from the 1950s until today. Her doctoral dissertation, “Remapping Third World Women’s Cinema and Anti-Colonial Film Cultures, 1960s-1980s” traces the critical reception and circulation of early Third World women’s cinema across various institutions in Western Europe, Africa, and West Asia (or the “Middle East”).
Her doctoral research has been supported by various initiatives at Ohio State, including: the Global Arts and Humanities Graduate Team Fellowship, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies Graduate Research Grant, and the Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship. She was recently selected as a 2024-2025 Presidential Fellow to complete her dissertation.