Documentary Film and History Program Directors
- Richard Breyer is a documentary filmmaker whose work includes Freedom's Call (2006), concerning the U.S. civil rights movement; North of 49 (2004), concerning the arson of a Sikh Temple in the aftermath of the 911 attacks; and Esta Esperanza (1996), shot in post-civil war El Salvador. Breyer has twice been a Fulbright Fellow in India, where he taught at Jamia Ismania and Hydrabad universities, and helped establish a national cable company.
- John Scott Strickland, program co-director, is a historian who specializes in American religious history and history of the American South. A sampling of his work includes the following article titles: "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."