{"id":1085,"date":"2026-05-06T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/?page_id=1085"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:46:13","slug":"roy-grundmann","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/roy-grundmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Grundmann"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/misi\/files\/2026\/05\/RoyGrundmann.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/files\/2026\/05\/RoyGrundmann.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/files\/2026\/05\/RoyGrundmann-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/files\/2026\/05\/RoyGrundmann-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Ships are mobile, seaborn particles of land-based societies, and as such, they always reflect some basic structures and patterns of land-based societies. It&#8217;s almost as though if a land-based society goes on a ship, its structures become instantly more foregrounded with all its advantages, disadvantages, good sides, and bad sides.<\/p><cite>&#8211; Roy<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/roy-grundmann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roy Grundmann<\/a> is an associate professor of film and media studies at Boston University College of Communication. Motivated by his longtime interest in maritime history, he has investigated the role of ocean liners as material objects, symbols, and mediums for transportation, with a specific interest in linking the question of the social or environmental landscape to the politics of (mis)representation. Roy\u2019s most recent book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sunypress.edu\/Books\/O\/On-Shoreless-Sea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">On Shoreless Sea: The MS St. Louis Refugee Ship in History, Film, and Popular Memory<\/a><\/em>, addresses the complex history behind the Jewish migrant passengers who traveled on the 1939 voyage of the Hamburg-Amerika-Line passenger ship <em>St. Louis. <\/em>He explored the power of the ocean liner as a biopolitical tool, one that harbors a history of expulsion, neo-colonialism, migration, and hope.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With MISI, Roy reinforced the specificity of his study, coordinating with relevant authorities and journalists to investigate how best to start public-facing conversations about the intersectionality of issues connected to ocean travel and how the media has represented them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ships are mobile, seaborn particles of land-based societies, and as such, they always reflect some basic structures and patterns of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26036,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}