About me
Melissa Dollman earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in American Studies in 2021 and has a Master’s in Moving Image Archive Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has worked professionally as an audiovisual archivist, adjunct faculty, fellow, exhibit developer, and researcher for cultural heritage institutions including Women In Film Foundation, UCLA Film and Television Archive, Academy Film Archive, Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, State Archives of North Carolina, North Carolina State University, UNC and its Southern Oral History Program, Tribesourcing Southwest Film, and is co-founder and CFO of Deserted Films, a home movie archive in Palm Springs, CA. Between 2016 and 2020 she was a director of the board for the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). Her publications cover home movies, digital humanities, public access TV, and the intersection of women's and PR history. More at https://melissadollman.com/
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