Dr. Jülide Etem (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Dr. Etem is also the Director of the Film Studies Concentration and the Chair of the Film Studies Curriculum Committee at UVA. Her research examines how institutions sponsor, produce, exhibit, and distribute film with the intention of generating social change.

She is finalizing her manuscript, Film Diplomacy and US-Turkey Relations: Mediating Race and Modernization. In this book, she analyzes educational films as portable technologies for solving infrastructural problems, communicating public service messages, delivering information campaigns, implementing foreign policy, and influencing social practices in Turkey and U.S.–Turkey relations between 1930 and 1986.  She contends that film served as a tool for forging closer ties, seamlessly aligning with different institutional agendas within a broader modernization project underpinned by racialized assumptions.

 To get connected, please reach Dr. Etem at aje4v@virginia.edu.