Karen F. Gracy

Karen F. Gracy is assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree in library and information science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an M.A. in film and television studies from UCLA. Her dissertation, "The Imperative to Preserve: Competing Definitions of Value in the World of Film Preservation," examines the sociocultural contexts of decision making within the moving image archives community.