Millard Schisler

At Johns Hopkins, Millard Schisler serves as a lecturer in the MA in Cultural Heritage Management program and the MA in Museum Studies program, teaching required courses in the Digital Curation certificate program, where he is able to draw on his experience as a photograph and media conservator.

Since 2020, he has been the Head of Collections and leader of the conservation, cataloging, and digital teams of the Instituto Moreira Salles in Brazil. At the IMS, he is also responsible for the advancement of institutional data through a new collection management system and the development and implementation of a digital preservation strategy. He has worked as a lecturer and consultant across projects in the field of organization, preservation, and digitization of photographic collections and moving images, and has become largely concerned and active with the preservation of born-digital materials, particularly digital photographs.

A professor at the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences and School of Print Media at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1996 to 2006, Schisler was actively involved in teaching during the transition of traditional to digital photography. He returned to Brazil and served as the Director of Preservation of the Cinemateca Brasileira (Brazilian Film Institute) from 2007 to 2012, where he was heavily involved in the preservation of all types of media in analog and digital formats.

Schisler holds an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York and completed the two-year certificate program in Photographic Preservation held at the George Eastman House where he subsequently taught historical photographic processes.