About Jasmijn
Jasmijn Van Gorp (°1980, Belgium) is a media studies scholar, a photographer and a filmmaker. She holds an MA in Communication Studies (2002, Leuven University) and a PhD in Social Sciences (2008, Antwerp University). Both her academic and creative work is situated in the field of film, television and media cultures, with a focus on identities, (trans)nationalism and Eastern Europe.
From 2003 until mid-2009 Jasmijn worked as teaching and research assistant at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of Antwerp University, Belgium. In December 2008 she received a PhD degree in Social Sciences with a dissertation on post-Soviet Russian film policy. As member of the research group Media, Policy and Culture, she was also co-teacher of courses in media and film studies (BA and MA level), and conducted research on such topics as Flemish Schlager singers, and local quality tv.
In September 2009 Jasmijn joined the Research Institute for History and Culture and the Centre for Television in Transition of Utrecht University as a postdoc on Media and Diaspora. In her first Utrecht project, she investigated how Bosnians, Serbians and Croatians living in the Netherlands are organized and sustained through the use of media and networked activities offline. The results of this study, i.e. photographs made by the 10 women who participated, have been exhibited at ImagineIC, Amsterdam, and were the subject of a public debate at the same venue. Since May 2010, Jasmijn started working on her second postdoc, this time on East European migration and/on Dutch Television in the NWO-funded collaborative project BRIDGE with ISLA UvA and The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. In this project, she is developing and testing intelligent search interfaces for audiovisual archives, in which the portrayal of Polish, Yugoslav and Russian migrants has been chosen as case studies. In Spring 2012, she holds a visiting scholarship at the Comparative Media Studies department of MIT, Boston, where she is exploring new evaluation methods and concepts for Digital Humanities research.
Next to academic research, Jasmijn was involved in several film and television projects, such as the VT4-NET5 reality tv series Expeditie Robinson 2001 & 2002, and the Belgian-Dutch-Finnish documentary film Trulichka (2005). In 2010 she has set up a new experimental film project Passage in Odessa, Ukraine, together with the American film director Zac Murphy (Flyeyemedia). Currently she is working on a new documentary film project, based on stories in and around Kuznetsky Most street in Moscow.
