SALARY: $85,000-$100,000
The Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks qualified candidates for a tenure-track position in Moving-Image Archiving, Restoration, & Preservation. We anticipate hiring at the Assistant Professor level. With significant donations of preservation equipment and the department’s ongoing legacy of analogue and digital media-making, we anticipate establishing a preservation/archiving track and/or a professional master’s degree in film-video preservation in the near future. The new assistant professor of Moving-Image Archiving, Restoration, & Preservation will ideally have an important part in building the curriculum and administratively initiating these endeavors. For more information about Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts, its curriculum, faculty, and facilities, please see
https://www.colorado.edu/cinemastudies. Qualified candidates for this position should demonstrate experience and/or certification in Film-Video Preservation-Archiving and/or archival research. Minimum 2 years experience as a film-video preservation specialist; or minimum 2 years experience as a Preservation or Archiving specialist with a focus on Film or video materials; or minimum 3 years experience in an academic setting as an archival film-video researcher. Alternatively, or in conjunction, they must have proficiency in art practice or scholarship that necessitates technical expertise in the areas of film-video preservation, restoration, and archiving. Proficiency can be measured by international exhibitions, screenings, and public-facing events, as well as a minimum of two years teaching in this field.
Requirements for the position include a terminal degree in the field (MFA or Ph.D. in Film, Filmmaking, Moving Image Arts, Media Arts, Studio arts – film focus, Visual Arts, Photographic Preservation, Archival Methods in film-video Preservation.), a distinguished or promising record of scholarship, and an articulate, well laid out, long-term research agenda in written and/or moving-image scholarship, which could include a creative practice that engages with archives.
Teaching experience of at least 3 years at the college level is preferred. Teaching experience may have been gained during a graduate program.
Position begins August 2025. Review of applications will begin on March 10, 2025. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Candidates must submit a current vita, a letter of application outlining their reasons for interest in this position, a research/creative statement, teaching philosophy statement, and contact information for three professional references.
