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Documentary Film & History
As a student in our program, you will benefit from the experience and research of accomplished filmmakers and history scholars. Our faculty members offer decades of knowledge of the film and television industries. They are writers, producers, directors and editors. They are authors and specialists in U.S. and international history. Each contributes his or her expertise to the rich spectrum of this specially designed master's program.
Richard Breyer

Co-director, Documentary Film and History
Professor
rlbreyer@syr.edu

Richard Dubin

Professor of Practice
rdubin@syr.edu

Robert Thompson

Director, Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture
Professor
rthompso@syr.edu

Donald Torrance

Associate Professor
dctorran@syr.edu

Maxwell School Faculty

Subho Basu who specializes in South Asian History published Does Class Matter? Colonial Capital and Workers' Resistance in Bengal 1890-1937 in addition to other work on political history

Norman Kutcher works on the cultural, social and intellectual history of China. His book, Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State was published by Cambridge University Press. He is currently studying the cultural and political role of eunuchs in China through a rich archive of their memoirs and autobiographies.

James Roger Sharp specializes in Early National US History. His books, The Jacksonians Versus the Banks: Politics in the United States after the Panic of 1837 and American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis are important contributions to their fields.

Margaret S. Thompson is a specialist in US political history, the history of American religion, and the History of Women. She has published a study of lobbying in Congress during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, The Spider's Web.

Richard Breyer
Co-director
Office: 451 Newhouse 3
(315) 443-9249
rlbreyer@syr.edu