Ryan Watson is associate professor of Film and Media Studies and Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Radical Documentary and Global Crises: Militant Evidence in the Digital Age (2021). In 2019, he coedited (with Sarah Hamblin) a special issue of Studies in Documentary Film on "Radical Documentary in the Globalized Age of New Media." His writing has been published in Afterimage, Animation Journal, Cinema Journal, Feminist Media Studies, InVisible Culture, Journal of Film and Video, Review of Middle East Studies, Studies in Documentary Film, and The Velvet Light Trap.