About me
Peter B. Kaufman is Senior Development Officer at MIT Open Learning. Educated at Cornell and Columbia, he is the author of The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge (Seven Stories Press, 2021) and The Moving Image: A User’s Manual (The
MIT Press, 2025). An educator, publisher, and documentary film
producer, he has served as Associate Director of Columbia University’s
Center for Teaching and Learning; co-chair of the JISC Film & Sound
Think Tank; co-chair of the Copyright Committee of the Association of
Moving Image Archivists; a member of the Scholar Advisory Committee of
WGBH’s American Archive of Public Broadcasting; a member of the American
Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure in the
Humanities and Social Sciences; and a long-time consultant to the
Library of Congress’s Packard Campus for Audiovisual Conservation.
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