Overview

Regina Longo is an audiovisual archivist, historian, researcher,  producer, and film programmer.  She manages the MCM film and video archives and teaches in the department of Modern Culture and Media. She began her archival career at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and has managed preservation efforts for the Albanian National Film Archives through the Albanian Cinema Project, the capacity building nonprofit project she founded. She taught at SUNY Purchase, UCSC, and UCSB, where she received her PhD. She continues to consult and produce content for public history museums and volunteers her time to aid archives at risk globally.

From 2019-2021 she served as a director of the Board of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, an international nonprofit association dedicated to the preservation and use of moving image media. 

From 2013-2018 she served as Associate Editor of Film Quarterly  where she launched the Page Views column that included in- depth reviews of groundbreaking scholarship in the field alongside interviews with the authors.  During this time she also curated and co-curated film programs that screened at venues in Albania, California, Italy, France, New York, Virginia, and Washington, DC.

From 2020- 2023, she served on the Editorial Board of  the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS), the journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. 

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