Allyson Nadia Field is a scholar of film history with a focus on African American cinema, historiography, the archive, and film and social justice. She is the author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film & The Possibility of Black Modernity (Duke University Press, 2015). Field is co-editor with Marsha Gordon of Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke University Press, 2019) and co-editor with Jan-Christopher Horak and Jacqueline Stewart of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (University of California Press, 2015). She was named a 2019 Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a 2020–2021 ACLS/Burkhardt Residential Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Field is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and the College, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and a faculty advisor for the new BA degree program in Inquiry and Research in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.