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Supervisors:听Prof听Paul Gilroy听(principal) and Dr Luke de Noronha听(subsidiary)
PhD Research:听My research interrogates how the historical and socio-cultural narrative of race manifests in today鈥檚 facial recognition and surveillance technologies. Informed by an emergent body of critical scholarship on racialized biases produced in machine learning and artificial intelligence, my work specifically aims to connect nineteenth century colonial regimes of biometric racial governance to twenty-first century assumptions through which the black face is rendered both hypervisible and undetectable in contemporary fields of surveillance culture. I contextualise performance of today鈥檚 鈥渘eutral,鈥� and 鈥渙bjective鈥� big-data assemblages in a history of racialist logics ranging from 19th century blackface minstrelsy to racializing histories of the photograph in scientific fields across ethnography, anthropology, phrenology, physiognomy, and craniology. Methodologically, I adopt both a historiographical and intermedial approach to mine colonial archives, including politico ontological discourses across techno-science, historiography, philosophy, and visual culture. Engaged with philosophical critiques of 鈥渦niversal,鈥� yet hierarchical, configurations of the human founded on faulty ontologies constituting the face as a sign of otherness, my research will significantly contribute to interventions that both challenge and reframe mechanisms by which racialism is compulsively re-codified in the algorithmic logics of facial recognition technology.听
Research Interests:
Visual culture, critical race theory, black studies, postcolonial studies, media studies, historiography, cultural studies, surveillance studies, technology studies
Publications:
(Forthcoming) Crichlow, Camille. 鈥淎mbivalent Masks: Politicking the Black Face from Minstrelsy to Biometric Facial Recognition鈥�. 听Spectator, vol. 41, no. 1, Spring 2022.
Conferences:
Crichlow, Camille. 鈥淒etecting Blackness: Biometric Facial Recognition as Neo-Minstrelsy Form鈥�. 听First Forum Conference, University of Southern California, November 2020.
Honours, Awards & Funding:
Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities