Kendall Moore, PhD
Professor, Journalism & Film/Media
Documentary Filmmaker
University of Rhode Island
Decolonizing Science?
Production has begun on the NSF funded film Decolonizing Science?, a feature-length documentary that will explore the creation and legacy of western science as it requires/d the critical erasure of other scientific methodologies, particularly of Indigenous, African/Black/Africanx (of the diaspora), and Hispanic, Latino/a/x peoples. The film will have a multi-pronged examination, which begins with the origins of western science as a product of colonization; an exploration of the ways in which western science is systematically centered, and how non-western traditional science, such as Traditional (Indigenous) Ecological Knowledge (TEK), African Indigenous methodologies and Latinx ways of questioning, naming, knowing, and conveying knowledge, have been delegitimized in predominantly white scientific spaces. The film addresses specific colonial legacies stemming from formal and informal scientific knowledge sites, such as museums and universities. The film concludes with a discussion on what it means to do de-colonial work, what it looks like, and what the ethical practices are as they are related to specific communities of color.
Production Team
Pictured left to right: Alex DeCiccio, Amelia Moore, PhD, Kendall Moore, PhD Photo Credit: Beau Jones
Kendall Moore, Director
Amelia Moore, Associate Producer
Martha Associate Producer
Adrian Cato, Research Associate
Ian Reyes, PhD, Music
Gabrielle Patterson, Motion Graphics
Advisors
Wendy Smythe, PhD, Advisor
Vernon Morris, PhD, Advisor
Lisa White, PhD, Advisor
Melissa Villa Nicholas, PhD, Advisor
Sunshine Menezes, PhD, Advisor
Aradhna Tripati, PhD, Advisor
Pre-Contact Map of Indigenous First Nations tribes
Graphic Designer: Gabrielle Patterson
Pictured Above: Alex DeCiccio (Camera), Dean Paula Bontempi, PhD,Graduate School for Oceanography, Lorén Spears, Executive Director, Tomaquag Museum, Kendall Moore, PhD, Director. Photo Credit: Amelia Moore, PhD
Production Crews
and Interviewees (so far)
Rhode Island
Crew:
Alex DeCiccio
Kendall Moore
Interviewees:
Anthony Bogues, PhD, Brown
Amelia Moore , PhD, URI
Lorén Spears, Tomaquag Museum
James Haile III, PhD, URI
Marcus Nevius, PhD, URI
Marty Rojas, PhD, URI
Dawn Cardace, PhD, URI
Paula Bontempi , PhD, Dean, URI/GSO
Evan Wilson, PhD, Naval War College)
Kersey Sturdivant, PhD, Inspire Environmental Group
Nyla Husain, PhD, URI/GSO
Alycia Mosley-Austin, PhD, Brown
Steve Lubar, PhD, Brown
Philadelphia
Crew:
FivefiveCollective
Interviewees:
Deborah Thomas, PhD, UPENN
Paul Wolff Mitchell, UPENN
Gabriela Alvarado, UPENN
Michelle Strongfields, IAMM Science Education Group
Philadelphia Shoot
Photo Credit: Amelia Moore
Pictured: Stacy Drake, Phd, Field Museum. Jenny Shi, Camera. Chicago. Photo Credit: Kate Golembiewski
Pictured: Stephanie Fogel, Kai Tillman, Eli
Photo Credit: Molly Alloy
Picture: Kai Tillman, Eli
Photo Credit: Molly Alloy
Pictured: Gigi Moore, CNM, NP
Photo Credit: Kendall Moore, PhD
Baltimore
Crew:
Kendall Moore
Interviewees
Gigi Moore, CNM, NP
Lauren Arrington, PhD, CNM
Los Angeles, California
Crew:
Luis Robledo
Interviewees:
Aradhna Tripati, PhD, UCLA
Justin Dunnavant , PhD, UCLA
Chicago, Illinois
Crew:
Jenny Shi
Interviewees:
Meranda Roberts, PhD, The Field Museum
Alaka Wali, PhD, The Field Museum
Debra Yepa-Pappan, The Field Museum
Helen Robbins, PhD The Field Museum
Stacy Drake, PhD, Field Museum
Eli Suzukovich, PhD, Field Museum
Portland, Oregon
Crew:
Kai Tillman
Ambar Espinoza
Interviewees:
Stephanie Fogel,
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
Molly Alloy, Five Oaks Museum
Nathanael Andreini , Five Oaks Museum
David G. Lewis, PhD, Oregon State Univ.
Austin, Texas
Crew:
Illyana Bocanegra
Interviewees:
Tristan Ahtone, The Grist
Alaska
Crew:
Michael Ryan Clark
Michael Chilton
Phillip Gladcov
Interviewees:
Lisa White, PhD Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology
Wendy Todd, PhD, Haida Nation/UMD
Kiiljuus, Haida Nation
Sarah Peele, Haida Nation
New Haven, Connecticut
Crew
Kendall Moore
Amelia Moore
Interviewee:
Carolyn Roberts, PhD, Yale University
Pictured: Carolyn Roberts, PhD, Yale University
Photo Credit: Amelia Moore, PhD
Amelia Moore, PhD
Associate Producer
Pictured: Kendall Moore, PhD
Director