Chris Cynn

Christine Cynn is an Assistant Professor in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. With the support of a Fulbright Fellowship to Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, she began research on her current book manuscript on HIV prevention media in Francophone West Africa and began production of a video documentary with women living with HIV, Un Corps Encore. She has worked on a number of other video projects, including the award-winning 2003 documentary, Pote mak sonje: The Raboteau Trial, which she co-produced. Chris was an Andrew W. Mellon post-doctoral fellow at Barnard College.