Person:Howard Besser
Howard Besser is Professor of Cinema Studies and Founding Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation masters degree program (MIAP) as well as Senior Scientist for Digital Library Initiatives for NYU's Library. In addition to teaching one to three MIAP courses per year, he teaches a regular Cinema Studies course in Free Culture and Open Access, and has taught New Media, Installation Art, and the Future of Cinema. And he plans to teach a new course on Digital Video and The State. In 2020 he is finishing up a $450,000 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to train librarians as Privacy Advocates teaching endangered communities about digital privacy issues, and in 2021 he will be starting a new $250,000 IMLS grant to further extend the reach of the highly diverse 100 Privacy Advocates already trained.