Zoé Samudzi is an art writer whose work has appeared in Art in America, The New Inquiry, The New Republic, Jewish Currents, and other outlets. She has a PhD in Medical Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco and she researches German imperialism, biomedicine, and the Ovaherero and Nama genocide. She is a postdoctoral fellow with the ACTIONS Program at UCSF and a 2021 research fellow with Secrecy, Power, and Ignorance research Network (SPIN).