Introduction
Scott MacKenzie is Acting Vice Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science (August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2026), where he oversees Faculty Relations across the faculty’s 30 departments and interdisciplinary programs.
Dr. MacKenzie is a Professor in the Department of Film and Media and has been Head since 2021. He also served as Undergraduate Chair and Associate Head from 2017-2020. He co-designed Film and Media’s MA/PhD program in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies and has served on numerous committees at the departmental, faculty and university levels.
Scott is an expert in film, media, visual culture, and communications: specifically, how moving images and time-based media function within alternative and dominant public spheres. For the last decade he has worked on the global circumpolar Arctic, with specific foci on Indigeneity and climate change. His most recent book in the field is his co-authored monograph New Arctic Cinemas: Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis (University of California Press, 2023). He is author/co-author/editor/co-editor of eleven books, over eighty refereed articles and chapters, and numerous catalogue essays and reviews. His peer reviewed works have been published or are in-press in humanist and social scientific journals such as Alaska Journal of Anthropology; Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies; Journal of Environmental Media; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Screen; The Moving Image; and Visual Anthropology Review. Other recent books include Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures (University of California Press, 2014); Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic, Ed. w/ Anna Stenport (Edinburgh University Press, 2015); Arctic Environmental Modernities: From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene, Ed. w/ Lill-Ann Körber and Anna Stenport (Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History series; Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age, Ed. w/ Janine Marchessault (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019); Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos, Ed. w/ Lilya Kaganovsky and Anna Stenport (Indiana University Press, 2019); and Mapping the Rockumentary: Images and Sounds of Fury, Ed. w/ Gunnar Iversen (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).