Jaimie Baron
Dr. Jaimie Baron is a writer, editor, curator, teacher, and theorist. She is the author of two books, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (2021).
She is co-founder and co-editor of Docalogue, an online space for scholars and filmmakers to engage in conversations about contemporary documentary, and the Docalogue book series published by Routledge Press.
She also co-edited the collection Media Ventriloquism: How Audiovisual Technologies Transform the Voice-Body Relationship (2021).
In addition, she is the founder, director, and co-curator of the Festival of (In)appropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found footage films and videos.
She holds a B.A. in Art-Semiotics from Brown University, an MA in Film Studies from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA.
She currently lectures in Film and Media Studies at UC Berkeley.
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