REGINA M. LONGO
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Film and Media Studies
University of California Santa Barbara
regmlongo@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
PhD Candidate in Film and Media Studies; Committee Chair: Prof. Charles Wolfe
Dissertation: “Marshall Plan films in Italy, 1948-1955: A project of postwar consensus building”
University of California Santa Barbara
MA in Film and Media Studies, 2007
University of California Santa Barbara
Certificate Program, Post Baccalaureate Diploma, 1999
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and Archival Studies, Rochester, NY
BA in Anthropology and Film Studies, 1996
Honors Thesis: “The Politics of Production in Post Colonial French West African Cinema”
University of California Berkeley
PUBLICATIONS
“Southernism: The answer to the Southern Question?” Screening the Past, Issue 28, Sept. 2010:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/28/italy-in-early-american-cinema.html
“Northeast Historic Film: ‘The Whole World is Watching!’” The Moving Image, Vol. 10, No. 1,
Spring 2010: 164-169.
Translation of “The Embarrassment of Libya. History, Memory, and Politics in Contemporary
Italy,” by Nicola Labanca, California Italian Studies: Vol.1, No. 1, March 2010.
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z63v86n
“Fifth Orphan Film Symposium: Science, Industry, and Education,” The Moving Image, Vol. 7,
No.1, Spring 2007: 92-94.
“H. Lee Waters and his series Movies of Local People,” 2005:
http://www.colorlab.com/archives/HLeeWaters.htm.
SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
University of California President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2010-2011
The Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation European Studies Fellowship for Dissertation
Research, 2010-2011
US State Department Marshall Plan Scholar selected to represent Italian Information Program at
commemoration of European headquarters for the Marshall Plan in Paris, France, May 2010
Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of Santa Barbara Graduate Student Award, 2010
UCSB Film and Media Studies Small Department Graduate Fellowship 2008-2009
UC Washington, DC Center Graduate Fellowship for Research and Teaching 2008 and 2009
UCSB Graduate Division Central Fellowship 2006-2007
Association of Moving Image Archivists, The Rick Chace Scholarship, 2006
PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
Paper: “ Diachronic Interstices: Transnational Migrations of Italian Marshall Plan Films,”
The 9th MAGIS-Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School: “The Archive: Memory,
Cinema, Video, and the Image of the Present,” Gorizia, Italy, April 2011
Paper: “ Archival Interstices: Fragmentary Migrations and Sites of Reconstruction”
CICIS: California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies Conference, “Resisting
Memories: Perspectives on Italian National Trauma.” USC, Los Angeles, CA, February 2011
Panelist: “Home Movies and Ethnic History”: Association of Moving Image
Archivists/International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Annual Conference,
Philadelphia, PA, November 2010
Invited speaker: “Italian Studies in California Moving towards the Future”
CICIS: California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies Conference, Berkeley, CA
March 2010
Conference Organizer
MEDIAFIELDS 2: Infrastructures, UC Santa Barbara, April 2009
Invited speaker: “The INS and OUTS of Film Preservation: Preserving SHOAH”
CFCC International Film Series, Ocala, FL, November 2008
Invited speaker for special panel presentation: “Genocide Past and Present”
CFCC International Week, Ocala, FL, November 2008
Presented “The Shoah outtakes: An Archivist’s Recontextualization of the Testimony of Jan
Karski” on panel “Moving Testimonies: Site Specific Perspectives on Documenting the
Holocaust,” Architectures Of The Moving Image: Society For Cinema And Media Studies
Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2008
Panel Co-chair and moderator for “Recording Retribution: Issues in the Curation of, and Access
to, Actuality Footage of War and Atrocity,” Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual
Conference, Rochester, NY, September 2007
Conference organizer; Panel moderator for “Fieldwork: Theory and Practice”
MEDIAFIELDS, University of California Santa Barbara, April 2007
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Invited speaker: “The Search for Siege” as part of the panel: “Restoring the Legacy of Julien
Bryan,” The Orphan Film Symposium: Science Industry And Education
University of South Carolina, March 2006
Panel moderator and organizer for “The Ethics of Authenticating and Interpreting Actualities,”
Association Of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, November 2004
Presented “USHMM Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archives’ Julien Bryan Collection,” for
the traveling education program “Silent Witnesses,” San Diego, CA, September 2004
Invited speaker: Screened and discussed the research and documentation of the home movies of
Adolf Hitler’s major domo, Arthur Kannenberg, Washington, DC, Home Movie Day 2004
Invited speaker: Screened and discussed the research and documentation of a recent acquisition to
the USHMM Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive: “The Minovich Family Collection,”
Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium: The Moving Image As Biography, Bucksport, ME
July 2004
Producer and moderator: “Newly Restored Treasures From The Julien Bryan Collection,”
US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, April 2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Record: Theories and Practices of Film and Media Archiving, 189AR
Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer 2010
Teaching Assistant, Department of Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
September 2005- June 2010
External Examiner for Business English and Communication Students
Gateway College, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2009-Present
Graduate Fellow and Instructor
University Of California Washington DC Center, Winter 2008; Summer 2009
Instructor of Record: Contemporary Film and Cultural Theory, 192B
Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, Summer 2008
Instructor for FS 199: lead independent study students in a hands-on, workshop-style course in the
basics of film archiving and film preservation.
Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, Spring 2008
Guest Lecturer for Archives Seminar, FS187AR
Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, May 2006
ARCHIVAL/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Summer Research Fellow: Human Studies Film Archives, National Anthropological Archives
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Summer 2009
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Graduate Research Assistant
University of California Italian Studies Multicampus Research Group, 2007-2010
Graduate Research Assistant: Conducted research for Prof. Mireille Miller Young on the history of
African American women in pornography for her forthcoming book Brown Sugar
Department of Womens Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, 2008-2009
Graduate Research Assistant: Researched Japanese cell phone novels and participated in web-based
discussion forums on new reading interfaces.
University of California Transliteracies Multicampus Research Group, Winter 2008
Lead Archivist: Steven Spielberg Film And Video Archive
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, DC, 1999-2005
Film Researcher: Conducted archival film research for the feature film Va, Vis, et Deviens written
and directed by Radu Mihaileanu, (Elzevir Films, 2005).
Film Researcher: Conducted archival film research for Hitler’s Pawn HBO “Sports of the 20th
Century” Series, (Clear Channel Entertainment Television, 2003).
Research Intern: Pacific Film Archive, University of California Berkeley, 1994-1995
Cataloging Intern: Cataloged acquisitions to the pottery and textile collections and items for the
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum Of Anthropology, University Of California Berkeley, 1994
EDITORIAL/ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Managing Editor: California Italian Studies (CIS), URL: http://repositories.cdlib.org/ismrg/cisj/
University of California Office of the President and the California Digital Library, 2008- 2010
Copy Editor: Feminist Studies, University of Maryland College Park, 2002-2003
Editorial Assistant, Language Consultant: DEM Foundation (Diabetes, Endocrinology And
Metabolism), University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, 1997-1998
English Language Consultant: Sefigen Gestioni, SRL, Rome, Italy, 1997-1998
Project Publicity Coordinator: Organized publicity for a three-day conference and public hearing
held in San Francisco, Women, Health and the Environment, 1995
Inochi Women’s Network, Berkeley, CA
Project Publicity Coordinator: Organized speaking tour for Sipho Gabachi, deputy representative
of the African National Congress Labor Union, 1993
Global Exchange, Inc., San Francisco, CA
CREATIVE/PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
Producer: UMOJA, a documentary film on women in politics in Samburu, Kenya.
Vera Donna Films, Santa Barbara, CA and New York, NY, 2006-Present
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Photo Exhibit Curator: Don’t Knock The Rock Film & Music Festival,
Red Cat Theater, Los Angeles, CA, June –July 2006
Sound Technician: The Lobster Boy Revue, Washington, DC, 2003-2005
Producer: Sea Bikini See, an independent film by Angela Reginato, Oakland, CA, 2004
Scenographer: Modern Tendencies in Anglo-American Theatre,
The English Theatre of Rome: Off Night Repertory Theatre, Rome, Italy, 1996-1997
Art Director for the independent film Flea Collar,
Bacchus Films Production/Lenin Tireworks Production, San Francisco, CA, 1995
Co-Producer/Director: Gynopunk, an ethnographic video. Debuted at the Berkeley Ethnographic
Film and Video Festival, June 1994
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)
2004 Survey Chair, Nitrate Film Interest Group
2005- 2008: Conference Committee member
2008- 2009: Conference Committee; Steering Committee Co-Chair
2008- 2010: Scholarship Committee member
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Women in Film and Video (WIFV)
Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS): Film Series Programmer
VOLUNTEER AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Graduate Student Representative
Department of Film and Media Studies, UCSB, 2005-2006; 2008
Tutor and mentor for at-risk high school students.
Community Club Tutoring Program, Washington, DC, 2000-2005
Volunteer: Jewish Film Festival, Washington, DC, 2004
Volunteer: Save the Avalon Theater Committee, Washington, DC, 2003
Volunteer: Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto, (silent film festival) Pordenone, Italy, 1996
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Italian: fluent; French, Spanish: basic speaking, reading and writing; Classical Latin: reading
knowledge; Swahili: basic spoken. English: mother tongue.
COMPUTER SKILLS
PC and MAC proficient: MSOffice, Dreamweaver, FinalCut Pro, Avid Xpress, Photoshop, File
Maker Pro, FoxPro, and several proprietary media asset management systems.
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OTHER TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operation of various analog and digital video cameras, as well as off-line video editing systems,
Super 8mm camera, 16mm camera (Bolex, Arriflex), 8mm, 16mm and 35mm manual editing (hot
and cold splicing, ultrasonic splicing, flatbed/Steenbeck), 4 and 8 track audio mixers, 35mm still
camera, black and white still photo processing.
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