Jan Stefan Tarnowski

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I am an anthropologist working across media anthropology, political theory, and postcolonial studies, with a particular focus on the aftermaths of the 2010-11 Arab Revolutions. I received my doctorate from Columbia University's Department of Anthropology, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and Center for Comparative Media where my thesis was titled "Struggling with Images: Revolution, War and Media in Syria".  In October 2022, I was admitted as an Early-Career Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, where I'm affiliated with the department of Social Anthropology. Since March 2023, I've also been a postdoctoral researcher on the 'Views of Violence' project at the University of Copenhagen.

My postdoctoral research, funded by the ‘Views of Violence’ project, is an analysis of the potentials and limitations of User Generated Content for the construction of legally felicitous evidence in international criminal courts. Taking Syria as a case study, my research looks at the technical, legal, political, and theoretical hurdles that must be overcome for constructing evidence from user-generated content through digital forensic methods.