Caroline Frick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Executive Director, Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Dr. Caroline Frick is founder and executive director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. She received her MA in Film Archiving and Film History from the University of East Anglia, UK and obtained her Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film from The University of Texas at Austin.
For nearly 20 years, Dr. Frick has worked in film preservation in a variety of organizations such as Warner Bros., the Library of Congress, and the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Dr. Frick also programmed films for the American Movie Classics cable channel in New York. Last year, she acted as Curator of Motion Pictures at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. Dr. Frick teaches film history and preservation at The University of Texas at Austin and her book, Saving Cinema, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011.
She is currently serving a two-year term as Director of the Board for the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress.