About me
Kimberly Tarr is a visiting assistant professor in the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies. She is the Associate Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program, a graduate program in which she’s served as an adjunct professor since 2012. Her research interests include archival pedagogy, amateur film, travel film, and the ethics of preservation and restoration. For over a decade, she developed strategies for the long-term care of film, video, and audio collections in NYU Libraries She previously held posts at the Smithsonian Museum of American History and the New York Public Library. Tarr has been instrumental in preserving and restoring feature films, including The Grim Game (1919), and Fresh Kill (1994). She earned her undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA from NYU MIAP.