VPRI Aspiration 2030 & Kula Postdoctoral Fellow
Nathaniel Brunt (PhD) is a Canadian interdisciplinary scholar, documentarian, and educator whose work critically examines modern armed conflict and the ways it is, and has been, represented photographically. He is the Aspiration 2030 / UVic Libraries postdoctoral fellow and co-leads the Sersal Project as part of Kula’s Conflict Aftermath Digital Archives Project (CADAP).
Trained as a cultural historian and documentary photographer, Brunt studies how individuals, institutions, and communities interpret their worlds visually during wartime. He completed his PhD in the Communication and Culture joint program at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University, supported by SSHRC and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
Brunt’s photographic work has been widely published and exhibited internationally. He is currently undertaking long-term documentary projects in Northern Iraq and Kashmir, is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria Libraries.
In December 2025, he was awarded at 2026 Hannah Arendt Fellowship in Germany.
