REBECCA GOUREVITCH
EDUCATION
MA in Photographic Preservation & Collections Management
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2020
Master’s Thesis: “Encountering the Records of the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography”
MA in Social Documentation
University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 2016
Master’s Film: Holding Out
BA in Sociology (with Honors)
UC Santa Cruz, San Cruz, CA, 2008
ARCHIVE & LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Special Projects Archivist — University of California-Merced Library, 8/23 - present
Project Archivist — California Agricultural Resources Archive, University of California-Merced Library, 7/20 – 7/23
Archive Associate — Bausch + Lomb, Rochester, NY 10/19 – 03/20
Junior Fellow, Manuscript Processing Division — Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 2019
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Coordinator – San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition, San Francisco, CA 12/16 – 5/18
Tenant Organizer – San Francisco Tenants Union, San Francisco, CA, 11/11 – 7/14
Events Coordinator & Volunteer Program Manager - JobTrain, Menlo Park, CA, 4/09 – 6/11
Political Staffer – Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, Santa Cruz, CA, 9/08 – 11/08
Election Clerk - Santa Cruz County Elections Department, Santa Cruz, CA, 4/06 – 12/08
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
Board Member – San Francisco Tenants Union, San Francisco, CA, 12/14 – 7/16
FELLOWSHIPS / GRANTS
2018 Create Grant – Arts Council of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA
2016 Florence French Scholarship, University of California-Santa Cruz
2015 Florence French Scholarship, University of California-Santa Cruz
2015 Human Rights Fellow – Human Rights Center, University of California-Berkeley
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
History Detectives, Co-leader, UC Merced Library and Merced County 4-H, Summer 2022
4-H Storymapping Project, Co-leader, UC Merced Library and Merced County 4-H, virtual, 1/21 – 5/21
New Voices 4 Youth, Co-Director, San Mateo County, 9/17 – 12/17
Introduction to Photography (UCSC), Teaching Assistant, 9/17 – 12/17
The Film Experience (UCSC), Teaching Assistant, 10/14 – 12/14
Introduction to Photography (UCSC), Teaching Assistant, 1/15 – 3/15
American Film 1930-1960 (UCSC), Teaching Assistant, 9/15 – 12/15
International Cinema 1960 – Present (UCSC), Teaching Assistant, 1/16 – 3/16
Introduction to Television Studies (UCSC), Teaching Assistant, 3/16 – 6/16
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
2022 “California Agricultural Resources Archive (CARA) Preserves History of Cooperative Extension.” Society of California Archivists Newsletter, Society of California Archivists.
2022 “Cooperative Extension Firsts in Modoc County.” Farm News, Merced County Farm Bureau.
2022 “Exploring the imagery of UC Cooperative Extension in Mariposa County.” Farm News, Merced County Farm Bureau.
2022 “Problem Solving in San Joaquin County: early twentieth century UC Cooperative Extension projects.” Farm News,
Merced County Farm Bureau.
2021 “From the Mariposa County, UC Cooperative Extension Collection: The 1988 Beef Checkoff.” Farm News, Merced County Farm Bureau.
2021 “Processing of Modoc County’s UC Cooperative Extension Archival Collection Underway.” Farm News, Merced County Farm Bureau.
2021 “History of UC Cooperative Extension in Modoc County Now Online.” Farm News, Merced County Farm Bureau.
2021 “Radio Spots by UCANR Broadcast Services Added to UC Cooperative Extension Archive.” Farm News, Merced County Farm Bureau.
2021 “Historic Records of UC Cooperative Extension, Fresno County Now Online,” Farm News, Merced County Farm Bureau.
2021 “UC Merced Library and Merced County 4-H Wrap-up Inaugural StoryMapping Project.” Farm News, Merced County Farm Bureau.
2021 “CARA Highlights Agricultural History from Across California.” Farm News, Merced County Farm Bureau.
2021 “Preserving the Film Reels of the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.” Farm News, Merced County Farm Bureau.
2021 “Storymapping Project Underway with Merced County 4-H and UC Merced Library.” Farm News, Merced County Farm Bureau.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS / LECTURES / WORKSHOPS
2022 “Preserving the History of Cooperative Extension in California,” Society of California Archivists Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA.
2022 “A Century of Impact: Documenting the Work of the Cooperative Extension in California,” United States Agricultural Information Network Biennial Meeting, University of Arkansas, virtual.
2021 “Head, Heart, Hands, Health: Partnering with 4-H Youth to Map Community Histories,” Poster presented at the meeting of Society of American Archivists, virtual.
2018 “Holding Out” Guest Lecture, Sociology Capstone Class UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA
2017 “SOTA Collaboration” Filmmaking Workshop, Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts & the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, San Francisco, CA
2015 “Stories of Displacement: San Francisco 2.0,” Human Rights Fellowship Conference, UCB Human Rights Center, Berkeley, CA.
2015 “Gentrification,” Poetics & Politics Conference, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA.
2015 “Narratives of Displacement: The Oral History Project of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project,” Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, The Crucible, Oakland, CA.
2014 “Gentrification: The New Urban Threat,” Practical Activism Conference, UCSC, Santa
Cruz, CA.
PHOTOGRAPHY & CURATION
Curator
2022 A Century of Impact in California's Counties: Highlights from the University of California Cooperative Archive, UC Merced Library, Merced, CA
Co-Curator
2023 Building a New Future: Art and Activism in the Central Valley, photographs by George Ballis, University of California, Merced Library, Merced, CA
2020 A History of Photography: Women’s Rights and Feminist Movements, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Artist
2018 Solo Exhibition, Plans, Firefly Coffee House, Santa Cruz, CA
2018 Group Exhibition, See, Be Seen: Community Portraits, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA
2016 Group Exhibition, Social Documentation 2016 Photography Exhibit, Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CA
2015 Group Exhibition, The Hatchery: Fortress, the HATCHERY art spaces, Badger, CA
2012 Group Exhibition, Black & White Photography Exhibit, Harvey Milk Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 Group Exhibition, Tent University, Stevenson Café, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA
FILMMAKING & MEDIA WORK
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound Designer – Holding Out
Cinematographer - Tenants Rise Up! Fighting for Housing Justice in the Bay Area, Regional
Tenants Organizing Network, 2018
Editor - No Place Like Home, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2017-2018
Cinematographer, Editor, Researcher - Fiji Time, San Francisco, CA, 2016-2018
SELECTED FILM SCREENINGS / AWARDS
Holding Out 2016
2021 Discussion with Filmmaker Series, UC Merced Library, Merced, CA
2018 Housing is a Human Need Film Series, SubRosa, Santa Cruz, CA
2017 (Not) In My Backyard Film Screening, Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA
2017 Incite/Insight Film Series, San Francisco, CA
2017 Workers Unite! Film Festival (Winner, Best Documentary Short)
2017 Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival
2016 Group Exhibition for, Social Documentation: Thesis Documentary Screening, Del Mar Theater, Santa Cruz, CA
2016 Group Exhibition for, On Housing, Artists Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA