Gabriella Bellot

Gabriella Bellot studies global media history and institutions. She’s interested in cultural memory in Latin American visual media, the institutions involved in its creation and preservation, and the public’s related (de)construction of its histories.

Gabriella Bellot is a first-year doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication, where she is a Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication affiliate and a Fontaine Fellow. Her broader research interests include media policy, archival studies, and transnational cinema studies. 

Before joining Annenberg, she worked at a nonprofit in Chattanooga, Tennessee as a community education coordinator, facilitating digital access and entrepreneurship programming. Prior to that, she spent two years in Bogotá, Colombia as a Fulbright ETA, teaching at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Institución Universitaria Colombo Americana. In Colombia, she gained additional experience assisting art curators at Museo Nacional de Colombia, furthering her interests in community involved programming that uses film and television as a means of unraveling historical narratives.

She graduated with a B.A. in Political Science summa cum laude from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2022.