Documentary Film and History Faculty
- 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."
- Subho Basu specializes in South Asian history and frequently writes on political history. He is the author of Does Class Matter? Colonial Capital and Workers' Resistance in Bengal, 1890-1937 (2004) and co-editor of several critical anthologies, including Rethinking Indian Political Institutions (2005) and Electoral Politics in South Asia (2000).
- Richard Dubin has written and produced for network television series, including Frank's Place, for which he received an NAACP Image Award and an Emmy Award nomination. A former jazz trumpet player and stage actor, his areas of expertise include writing, directing, performing, and developing properties for film and television.
- Tula Goenka is a film editor and producer. Here documentary films include El Charango (2006), a selection of the American Film Institute/Discovery SilverDocs Film Festival; Dancing on Mother Earth (2002), chronicling the life of Oneida Indian singer and songwriter Joanne Shenandoah: and Keep the River on the Right: A Cannibal?s Tale (2000), which won the Jury Prize at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.
- Norman Kutcher focuses on the cultural, social, and intellectual history of China. His 1999 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 examination of a rich archive of their memoirs and autobiographies.
- Patricia Longstaff is an expert in business and public policy issues who practiced communications and corporate law for 18 years. She is a research associate at Harvard University's Center for Information Policy Research, and a member of the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Communications Policy and of the Board of Directors of the International Telecommunications Society.
- Karin Rosemblatt is a specialist in Latin American history. She has particular interests in Chilean history and the transnational history of Latin America. Her books include Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950 (2000), which won the Berkshire Prize for the best first book written by a woman historian in any field, and Race and Nation in Modern Latin America (2003), a critical anthology she co-edited.
- James Roger Sharp is an American historian whose work chiefly concerns the early national period. His many publications include such influential books as The Jacksonians Versus the Banks: Politics in the United States after the Panic of 1837 (1970) and American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (1993). His 2006 essay, "Pass It On," compares ideas on conservation expressed by Thomas Jefferson to those expressed by Al Gore in his documentary film and book, An Inconvenient Truth.
- Margaret S. Thompson specializes in U.S. political and religious history, and the history of women. Her publications include The Spider's Web: Congress and Lobby in the Age of Grant (1985). She has been a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow and received research grants from the Ford Foundation and the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.
- Donald Torrance is a documentary filmmaker and journalist who works with scientific subjects. His work has appeared on Science Times (a television news magazine produced by The New York Times), National Public Radio, and in Nature Conservancy Magazine. His independent productions include Keeper of the Keys (1994), concerning conservation of the Florida Keys, which aired nationally on PBS, and Year 150 (1994), a history of American science whose premiere was attended by President Bill Clinton.