Jacqueline Stewart is a film historian, author and archivist whose scholarship and public engagement work amplifies underrepresented voices in cinema. She is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, and host of “Silent Sunday Nights” on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).  From 2022-24, Stewart served as Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.  She is the author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity, and co-editor of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema and William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission. In 2015, she co-curated the five-disc set Pioneers of African American Cinema for Kino Lorber.  A 2021 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Stewart founded the South Side Home Movie Project, a community-centered archival program housed at the University of Chicago’s Arts + Public Life initiative that will celebrate its 20th year in 2025.