Judith Keilbach is Professor of Media and Culture at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Her research focuses on media infrastructures, which she approaches, on one hand, from a historical and, on the other, from an environmental perspective. Her interest in media and sustainability resulted in a project on sustainable film production, commissioned by the Netherlands Film Fund. Further research topics include the relation of media technology and historiography; media archives; and television history and theory.
Judith is the author of Geschichtsbilder und Zeitzeugen (historical images and witnesses, 2008), co-author of Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History (2021) and Key Terms of Public History (2025), and co-editor of Grundlagentexte zur Fernsehwissenschaft (2002), Die Gegenwart der Vergangeheit (2003), Fasten Your Seatbelt! (2009), Völkermord zur Prime Time (2019) and Eichmann im Kalten Krieg (2021).
She received her Ph.D. in Film Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin. Before joining the VU, she worked at Utrecht University, where she initiated the special interest group Greening the Digital Society. She is co-leader of the Sustainable Media workgroup of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (necs), a member of the Global Green Media Network and a board members of the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam.
For her research project on “Televising the Eichmann trial” she was awarded a Leibniz Summer Fellowship from the Center of Contemporary History Potsdam (2013), a NIAS Fellowship from the Netherlands Institute For Advanced Study (2014) and a Senior Fellowship from the The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (2016).
She served on the steering committee of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (necs) from 2015 to 2021.
