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Andy Uhrich is a media historian, archivist, and curator. He received his PhD from Indiana University and a master’s from New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. His scholarship explores the politics of media preservation with a focus on community and non-institutional approaches to archiving.

Professor Uhrich’s professional experience as an archivist includes stints at the WashU Film & Media Archive and the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive. As an archivist and curator, he has worked on the mass digitization of a large 16mm film collection; helped restore films by Sidney Peterson, Gordon Parks, Sr., Marjorie Keller and others; preserved the documentary film and TV collections ofÌýcompanies like Henry Hampton’s Blackside, Inc. and Kartemquin Films; and programmed screenings of nontheatrical and amateur filmmakers.Ìý

He has taught film history and media preservation classes at IU and an introduction to film archiving class for cinema studies students at WashU. Outside of the university setting, Professor Uhrich has led and co-taught workshops and training sessions on film identification and inspection, designing a digitization program, film projection, and caring for personal and family media collections.

Professor Uhrich has previously served on the board for the Center for Home Movies, which supports the annual international Home Movie Day. He also volunteers for the Association of Moving Image Archivists in a variety of capacities, including as the former co-chair of the Continuing Education Advisory Taskforce.Ìý

He is currently revising his dissertation on private collectors’ archival impact on the development of film history into a book. Professor Uhrich has previously published on the challenges of preserving early computer art, illustrated lecturers in the early twentieth century, and how mid-century film collecting circles replicated racial stereotypes through illicit forms of copying film prints.