Documentary Film and History:
Program Co-Directors
Richard Breyer produces documentary films for Public Television. His credits include Freedom's Call, North of 49, Kasthuri Faces in a Famine and Esta Esperanza. In addition professor Breyer was a Fulbright Scholar to India twice and consultant to Columbia TriStar in India where he helped set up a national cable company.
John Scott Strickland works in American religious History and the History of the South. He has numerous articles including "Religion and Rebellion Among South Carolina Slaves," "Traditional Culture and Moral Economy in the South Carolina Low Country, 1861-1900," "'No More Mud Work': Resistance and Labor in the South Carolina Low Country, 1863-1876," and "The Great Revival and Insurrectionary Fears, 1802."
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
Richard Dubin has written, produced and directed primetime programs for ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX. His studio affiliations include Disney, Warner Bros., Viacom, TriStar, HBO Productions, Fox TV, MTM..
Tula Goenka's primary focus is film editing and she has worked on feature films with Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X), James Ivory (Surviving Picasso), Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala), and Ernest Dickerson (Surviving The Game), among others.
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.
Peter Moller is a playwright, director, and stage actor, when not at work teaching and writing, His plays "Sangrado," "The Experiment of St. Alexis" and "Coupons" have been produced by regional theaters in the United States and Canada.
Karin Rosemblatt is a specialist in Chilean History and transnational history in Latin America. Her book, Gendered Compromises: Political ultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950, won the Berkshire Prize for the best first book written by a woman historian in any field.
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.
Robert Thompson is Director of The Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and author and noted authority on this subject.
Donald Torrance is a science and health journalist who writes for Science Times, The New York Times Science Television, National Public Radio, Science Magazine and the Nature Conservancy Magazine.