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'''Jacqueline Najuma Stewart'''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-fall-preview-2016-stewart-movies-profile-ae-0904-20160831-column.html|title=Jacqueline Stewart, champion for African-American cinema|first=Michael|last=Phillips|author-link=Michael Phillips (critic)|date=September 2, 2016|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=November 1, 2017|url-status=live|archive-date=November 24, 2019|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20191124134116/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-fall-preview-2016-stewart-movies-profile-ae-0904-20160831-column.html}}</ref> is an American author,cinema universitystudies professor,scholar and television host for [[Turner Classic Movies]]. FromA 2022professor toat 2024the [[University of Chicago]], she also served as inaugural artistic director, and then president for the [[Academy Museum of Motion Pictures]]. from 2021 to 2024,<ref name="AcademyMuseum">{{cite press release |url=https://aframe.oscars.org/news/post/the-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures-jacqueline-stewart-director-president |title=The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Appoints Jacqueline Stewart as New Director and President |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=6 July 2022 |website=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |agency=Academy Museum of Motion Pictures |access-date=11 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712050518/https://aframe.oscars.org/news/post/the-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures-jacqueline-stewart-director-president |archive-date=12 July 2022 |quote=The Board of Trustees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced the appointment of Jacqueline Stewart as the director and president of the institution. Stewart has served as chief artistic and programming officer of the Academy Museum since 2020. |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Feinberg>{{Cite news |last=Feinberg |first=Scott |date=2024-05-29 |title=Jacqueline Stewart Exits and Amy Homma Enters as Academy Museum Chief, Randy Haberkamp Retiring |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jacqueline-stewart-out-academy-museum-chief-1235910700/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240529161636/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jacqueline-stewart-out-academy-museum-chief-1235910700/ |archive-date=2024-05-29 |url-status=live}}</ref> Shebefore returnedreturning to theher [[Universityprofessorship ofat Chicago]]the as a tenured professor of cinema studiesuniversity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cms.uchicago.edu/faculty/stewart|title=Jacqueline Stewart—Department of Cinema and Media Studies|publisher=[[University of Chicago]]|access-date=November 1, 2017|archive-date=April 24, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200424174938/https://cms.uchicago.edu/profiles/jacqueline-stewart|url-status=live}}</ref> andShe has served as director of the nonprofit arts organization, Black Cinema House.,<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.grahamfoundation.org/events_archive/2016|title=Afronauts with Frances Bodomo and Jacqueline Stewart|agency=[[Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts|Graham Foundation]]|access-date=November 1, 2017|archive-date=December 11, 2019|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20191211094101/http://www.grahamfoundation.org/events_archive/2016|url-status=live|quote=Jacqueline Stewart is ... co-curator of the L.A. Rebellion project at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Her film work in Chicago includes founding the South Side Home Movie Project and serving as Curator of Black Cinema House, a neighborhood-based film exhibition venue run by Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation.}}</ref> and as a member of the [[National Film Preservation Board]].
 
Stewart is an elected member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], and a [[MacArthur Fellow]].
 
==BiographyEarly years==
===Early years===
Stewart was born and raised in [[Hyde Park, Chicago|Hyde Park]], within [[South Side, Chicago]].<ref name="EmmyMagazine">{{cite magazine |last=Grifiths |first=John |url=https://www.emmys.com/news/features/class-acts |title=Class Acts |website=Emmy Magazine |issue=3 |date=2020 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240424055542/https://www.emmys.com/news/features/class-acts |archive-date=April 24, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> During her childhood, she remembered her aunt Constance introducing her to classic films on television. She stated, "...I always stayed up really late with her watching black and white films. She would talk to me during the commercial breaks about all the stars and the theaters that she used to go to. I was fascinated by the alternative world that I saw, the way that people talked and the way they dressed."<ref>{{cite interview |last=Maine |first=Brooke |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/jacqueline-stewart-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures-interview-2022 |title=Jacqueline Stewart Wants to Show You Another Side of Hollywood |website=[[W (magazine)|W]] |date=October 17, 2022 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017132222/https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/jacqueline-stewart-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures-interview-2022 |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
She graduated from [[Kenwood Academy|Kenwood Academy High School]]. Afterwards, she enrolled into [[Stanford University]], intent on becoming a journalist. There, she watched [[Spike Lee]]'s ''[[She's Gotta Have It]]'' (1986). Impressed, she studied Lee's career and [[feminist film theory]], on which she based her [[Bachelor of Arts]] thesis.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Alexander |first=Sonya |date=2021-06-10 |title=From Hyde Park to Hollywood |language=en-US |work=South Side Weekly |url=https://southsideweekly.com/from-hyde-park-to-hollywood/ |access-date=2021-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610202432/https://southsideweekly.com/from-hyde-park-to-hollywood/ |archive-date=2021-06-10 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1991, she graduated with a Bachelors in [[English literature|English]]. After this, Stewart enrolled as a graduate student at the [[University of Chicago]] (UC). Stewart reflected, "Film studies was just being formalized there and they hired a scholar named [[Miriam Hansen]] who wound up being my dissertation advisor and my mentor. And she specialized in silent cinema."<ref name="AWFJ_January2022">{{cite web |last=Ferdinand |first=Marilyn |url=https://awfj.org/blog/2022/01/01/spotlight-january-2022-jacqueline-stewart-film-scholar-archivist-and-curator/ |title=SPOTLIGHT January 2022: Jacqueline Stewart, Film Scholar, Archivist, and Curator |website=[[Alliance of Women Film Journalists]] |date=January 1, 2022 |access-date=May 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104222047/https://awfj.org/blog/2022/01/01/spotlight-january-2022-jacqueline-stewart-film-scholar-archivist-and-curator/ |archive-date=January 4, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1993, she graduated with a [[Master's degree]], and in 1998 with a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]], both in English from the University of Chicago.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/profile/jacqueline-stewart |title=Jacqueline Stewart |website=University of Chicago |date=n.d. |access-date=June 15, 2020 |archive-date=May 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502180658/https://news.uchicago.edu/profile/jacqueline-stewart |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Fluker |first=Dominque |url=https://www.essence.com/culture/jacqueline-stewart-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures/ |title=Jacqueline Stewart, Director And President Of The Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures, Leads With Purpose |website=[[Essence (magazine)|Essence]] |date=March 17, 2024 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319225252/https://www.essence.com/culture/jacqueline-stewart-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures/ |archive-date=March 19, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
===Career===
SheStewart taught at the University of Chicago from 1999 to 2006, serving in the Department of English and on the Committee on Cinema & Media Studies.<ref name="MigratingtotheMovies" /> In 2006, she joined the Department of Radio/Television/Film, and the Department of African American Studies, at [[Northwestern University]] as an associate professor. She returned to the University of Chicago in 2013 as a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.<ref name="MacArthurFoundation">{{Cite web |title=Jacqueline Stewart |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/jacqueline-stewart |access-date=2021-09-29 |website=MacArthur Foundation |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928163817/https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/jacqueline-stewart |archive-date=2021-09-28 |url-status=live}}</ref> During the fall of 2020, she began an extended leave from the University of Chicago after she was selected as the first artistic director for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.<ref name="StewartHeadstoLA">{{cite news |last=Phillips |first=Michael |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2020/10/19/chicagos-jacqueline-stewart-to-head-las-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures/ |title=Chicago's Jacqueline Stewart to head LA's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures |work=Chicago Tribune |date=October 19, 2020 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515024314/https://www.chicagotribune.com/2020/10/19/chicagos-jacqueline-stewart-to-head-las-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures/ |archive-date=May 15, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> She returned to the university in 2024 after also serving as the museum's president.<ref name=Feinberg/>
 
In 2018, she was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], <ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacqueline Stewart |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/jacqueline-stewart |access-date=2021-07-07 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191130221017/https://www.amacad.org/person/jacqueline-stewart |archive-date=2019-11-30 |url-status=live}}</ref> and in 2021, she was awarded a [[MacArthur Fellowship]].<ref name="MacArthurFoundation" /> ▼
 
====Author====▼
▲In 2018, she was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], <ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacqueline Stewart |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/jacqueline-stewart |access-date=2021-07-07 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191130221017/https://www.amacad.org/person/jacqueline-stewart |archive-date=2019-11-30 |url-status=live}}</ref> and in 2021, she was awarded a [[MacArthur Fellowship]].<ref name="MacArthurFoundation" />
 
▲====Author====
In 2005, Stewart published her first book titled ''Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity''. The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' reported she had spent a decade researching the topic, which focused on the role [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood cinema]] played in both influencing and reflecting the [[social mobility]] of Black Americans, particularly during the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] when they began relocating to the [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]] after living in the [[Southern United States|South]].<ref name="MigratingtotheMovies" />
 
Ten years later, in 2015, she co-authored the book ''L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema'', chronicling the [[L.A. Rebellion|film movement]], with then-[[UCLA Film and Television Archive]] director Jan-Christopher Horak and then-[[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] cinema studies professor Allyson Nadia Field.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520284685/la-rebellion |title='L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema |website=[[University of California Press]] |dateyear=2015 |isbn=978-0-520-28468-5 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402222811/https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520284685/la-rebellion |archive-date=April 2, 2024 |url-status=live |last1=Field |first1=Allyson |last2=Horak |first2=Jan-Christopher |last3=Stewart |first3=Jacqueline Najuma |publisher=UnivUniversity of California Press }}</ref> In 2021, she published her third book ''William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission'', a biography of the [[William Greaves|the documentary filmmaker]], with Scott MacDonald, a professor at [[Hamilton College]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/william-greaves/9780231199599 |title=William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission |websitepublisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |dateyear=2020 |publisher=Columbia University Press2021 |isbn=978-0-231-55319-3 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601213447/https://cup.columbia.edu/book/william-greaves/9780231199599 |archive-date=June 1, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> For several years, Stewart has been researching for a biography on actor–director [[Spencer Williams Jr.|Spencer Williams]].<ref name="AWFJ_January2022" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://blackfilm.uchicago.edu/research_projects/spencer_williams.shtml |title=University of Chicago Research Projects — Spencer Williams |date=2004 |access-date=May 16, 2024 |website=University of Chicago |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129220411/https://blackfilm.uchicago.edu/research_projects/spencer_williams.shtml |archive-date=November 29, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
====Museum curator====
In 2005, sheStewart founded the South Side Home Movie Project, which collects, preserves, as a cultural and historical resource, the [[16 mm film|16 mm]], [[8 mm film|8 mm]], and [[Super 8 film|Super 8]] homemade films of residents of [[South Side, Chicago]], together with [[Oral history|oral histories]] of the creators. The archive is headquartered in [[Evanston, Illinois]], but after Stewart left for Northwestern University, she continued to collaborate with the university's Film Studies Center, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, and several Chicago graduate students to continue the project.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About South Side Home Movie Project |url=https://sshmp.uchicago.edu/our-story |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=South Side Home Movie Project |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517180715/https://sshmp.uchicago.edu/our-story |archive-date=2022-05-17 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gibson |first=Lydialyle |url=https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0734/features/stewart.shtml |title=Cinéma vérité |magazine=University of Chicago Magazine |date=March–April 2007 |volume=99 |issue=4 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316211048/https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0734/features/stewart.shtml |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
By 2020, she was a three-term appointee to the [[National Film Preservation Board]] (NFPB), which advises the [[Librarian of Congress]] on policy. She also chaired the NFPB Diversity Task Force, ensuring the selected films chosen for the [[National Film Registry]] reflect diversity and inclusion.<ref name=Daniels/><ref>{{cite news |last=King |first=Loren |url=https://www.motionpictures.org/2020/03/silent-sunday-nights-host-jacqueline-stewarts-easy-going-film-expertise/ |title=''Silent Sunday Nights'' Host Jacqueline Stewart's Easy Going Film Expertise |website=[[Motion Picture Association]] |date=March 24, 2020 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424025133/https://www.motionpictures.org/2020/03/silent-sunday-nights-host-jacqueline-stewarts-easy-going-film-expertise/ |archive-date=April 24, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Taking a sabbatical from the University of Chicago, in 2021, Stewart was appointed the inaugural artistic director at the [[Academy Museum of Motion Pictures]].<ref name="StewartHeadstoLA" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Thompson |first=Anne |date=2020-10-20 |title=The Academy Museum Lucks Out with Chief Artistic Programmer Jacqueline Stewart |language=en |work=IndieWire |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/10/academy-museum-chief-artistic-programmer-jacqueline-stewart-1234593721/ |access-date=2021-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023111542/https://www.indiewire.com/2020/10/academy-museum-chief-artistic-programmer-jacqueline-stewart-1234593721/ |archive-date=2020-10-23 |url-status=live}}</ref> On July 6, 2022, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced Stewart's appointment as director and president of the institution.<ref name="AcademyMuseum" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Julia |date=2022-07-06 |title=The Academy Museum Names Jacqueline Stewart as New Leader |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/arts/academy-museum-jacqueline-stewart.html |access-date=2022-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706195010/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/arts/academy-museum-jacqueline-stewart.html |archive-date=2022-07-06 |issn=0362-4331 |url-status=live}}</ref> At the museum, she oversaw the opening of numerous exhibits, including its first permanent exhibit, and led the development of its first strategic plan. She stepped down in 2024 to return to the University of Chicago.<ref name=Feinberg/>
 
====Television career====
In 2016, Stewart collaborated with [[Charles Musser]] on curating the DVD set ''[[Pioneers of African-American Cinema]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/top-chicago-critics-circle-awards-go-to-moonlight-la-la-land/|title=Top Chicago Critics Circle awards go to 'Moonlight,' 'La La Land'|first=Darel|last=Jevens |date=January 8, 2017|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|access-date=November 1, 2017|archive-date=June 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615163521/https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/1/8/18409622/top-chicago-critics-circle-awards-go-to-moonlight-la-la-land|url-status=live}}</ref> During the summer of 2017, Stewart was invited on [[Turner Classic Movies]] to present a selection of films from the set, with future colleague [[Ben Mankiewicz]].<ref>{{cite interview |last=Coley |first=Jacqueline |url=https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/jacqueline-stewarts-five-favorite-films/ |title=Jacqueline Stewart's Five Favorite Films |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |date=October 21, 2019 |access-date=May 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024073633/https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/jacqueline-stewarts-five-favorite-films/ |archive-date=October 24, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Soon after, she was invited to the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival as a panelist to discuss the history of black images; in 2019, she was a guest speaker at a screening of ''[[The Defiant Ones]]'' (1958) and was a panelist for a discussion titled "The Complicated Legacy of ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]''".<ref>{{cite news |last=Bitran |first=Tara |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jacqueline-stewart-is-turner-classic-movies-first-african-american-host-1237214/ |title=Jacqueline Stewart Becomes First African American Host at Turner Classic Movies |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=September 9, 2019 |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240428041005/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jacqueline-stewart-is-turner-classic-movies-first-african-american-host-1237214/ |archive-date=April 28, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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