Jacqueline Najuma Stewart photo credit to Joe Mazza / Brave Lux
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Cinema and Media Studies

Jacqueline Stewart's research explores the dynamics of race in American cinema, with a focus on histories of African American film representation, spectatorship, exhibition, authorship, and archiving. Stewart is Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College, and Director of Arts + Public Life and the South Side Home Movie Project at the University of Chicago.