STEERING COMMITTEE

Kate Saccone is a  PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam where her practice-led project engages with silent cinema, archival moving image exhibition practice and theory, and critical-feminist approaches to curatorial labor. Her writing has appeared in The Moving Image and Feminist Media Histories, and she contributed the DVD booklet essay for Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology (Flicker Alley, 2017). As a curator, Kate has organized screenings at the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, the New York Public Library and the Netherlands Silent Film Festival, among other places. She is also  the project manager and an editor of the Women Film Pioneers Project, and has served on the steering committee of Women and Film History International since 2022.

Kristine Harris is an Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the State University of New York, New Paltz.  With a specialization in the history of film and media, gender, literature, and visual culture of twentieth-century China, Harris has also taught at the University of Chicago as Visiting Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in 2007 and 2009.  In June 2024, as Invited Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, she delivered lectures on Chinese film history of the 1930s and on the origins and afterlives of The Red Detachment of Women.  Her research has appeared in The Journal of Chinese Cinemas (2024); The Journal of Chinese Film Studies (2023); Les Sons de l’exotisme au cinéma: Bruits, voix, musiques (2022); Harvard New Literary History of Modern China (2017); The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas (2013); History in Images: Pictures and Public Space in Modern China (2012); The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (2011), and Opera Quarterly (2010), among others. Currently she is working on a book about Love and Duty and the life and work of S. Rosen-Hoa. She has served on the WFHI Steering Committee since 2022