Lori Hiris papers
Scope and Contents
The collection includes primarily film, videotapes, and audiotapes pertaining to the making of Lori Hiris' film, With a Vengeance: The Fight for Reproductive Freedom.
Dates of Materials
- 1962-2001
Creator
- Hiris, Lori (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for use without restriction beyond the standard terms and conditions of Smith College Special Collections.
Conditions Governing Use
Lori Hiris retains copyright to her film With a Vengeance: The Fight for Reproductive Freedom. The SSC owns copyright to other unpublished works of Lori Hiris in the collection. Copyright to materials authored by others may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. Permission must be obtained to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
Biographical / Historical
Lori Hiris was born in Albany, New York, the daughter of Irene and Arno Hiris. She graduated from Shenendehowa High School in Clifton Park, New York, and from Saratoga Warren BOCES (Board Of Cooperative Educational Services), in 1982. She earned her B.S. degree at the Syracuse University Newhouse School of Communications in 1986; her M.A. degree in political science from the New School for Social Research in 1994; and completed her MFA degree at Montana State University in 2009. Hiris has made numerous films, including With a Vengeance: The Fight for Reproductive Freedom, and has won many honors and awards for her work.
Extent
8.717 linear feet (46 containers)
Abstract
Filmmaker. The collection includes primarily film, videotapes, and audiotapes pertaining to the making of Lori Hiris' film, With a Vengeance: The Fight for Reproductive Freedom.
Arrangement
This collection has been added to over time in multiple "accessions." An accession is a group of materials received from the same source at approximately the same time.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Lori Hiris, 2008.
Additional Formats
Some audiovisual recordings have been transferred to digital format for research use.
Processing Information
Accessioned by Burd Schlessinger, 2008
Processing Information
Between September 2022 and February 2023, Smith College Special Collections renumbered many boxes to eliminate duplicate numbers within collections in order to improve researcher experience. The following changes were made in this collection: Accession 2008-S-0067, Boxes 1-5 renumbered as Boxes 6-10
Source
- Hiris, Lori (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Lori Hiris papers
- Subtitle
- Finding Aid
- Date
- 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 07/26/2017: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2017-07-26T17:48:22-04:00: This record was migrated from InMagic DB Textworks to ArchivesSpace.
Repository Details
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository
