About me
Juana Suárez combines careers as a scholar, film critic, and media archivist/preservation activist. Her research interests include Media Preservation, Film Archives, Media Archeology, Administration of Memory Institutions, Film Studies, Latin American/Latino-a Cinema, Cultural Studies and Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, and Immigration Studies. She is an Associate Professor at the NYU Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, and director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program (MIAP). Working with NYU MIAP professors, alumni, and students, she has organized and participated in the NYU - MIAP Audiovisual Preservation Exchange Program (APEX) since 2013. APEX has taken place in Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Spain, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Greece, Ecuador, and México (Chiapas and Guadalajara); this program has forged partnerships with almost 50 archival institutions in those countries, becoming a major catalyst for collaboration and strengthening of global audiovisual preservation projects.
She serves as Trustee for the Flaherty Seminar Board, the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N) Board of Directors, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). In all of them, her advocacy is oriented to the awareness of income, gender, and opportunity gaps at the international level so that we share archival and educational resources while also acknowledging and including knowledge from global geographies.
