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Staff Bios Barbara Abrash

Barbara Abrash is a teacher, curator and independent producer. She is the director of public programs at the Center for Media, Culture and History and the Center for Religion and Media at New York University where, since 1986, she has taught a graduate seminar in media and history in the Public History Program. Her films include Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo (PBS, American Experience), which won the Eric Barnouw Award of the Organization of American Historians, and Perestroika from Below (Ch4/UK). Her publications include 9-11 and after: a virtual case book, an interactive website; a special issue of the media journal Wide Angle (2001), on the work of media activist George Stoney; and articles in Cineaste, Radical History Review, Independent Documentary and Visual Anthropology Review.

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Patricia Aufderheide

Director

Ann Williams

Associate Director

Bree Bowman

Projects Manager

Jessica Clark

Director, Future of Public Media Project

Maura Ugarte

Associate Research Director

Alison Hanold

Projects Coordinator

Michael T. Miller

Graduate Associate

Kate Schuler

Research & Media Fellows

Barbara Abrash

Research Fellow

Neil Sieling

Media Fellow

Mridu Chandra

Director, Documentary Ethics Project

Giovanna Chesler

Executive Producer, Tune in STI Network

Advisory Committee

Barbara Abrash  

Director of Public Policy Programs
Center for Media, Culture and History & Center for Religion and Media
New York University

Helen De Michiel

Co-Director
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture

Sally Jo Fifer

President
Independent Television Service

Faye Ginsburg

Professor and Director
Center for Media, Culture and History
New York University

Barbara Kopple

Filmmaker

Cara Mertes

Director
Sundance Documentary Film Program

Chon Noriega

Professor and Associate Director
Chicano Studies Research Center
University of California Los Angeles

Mimi Pickering

Film/Video Producer
Appalshop Films

Gordon Quinn

Filmmaker and Co-founder
Kartemquin Films

Ellen Schneider

Executive Director
Active Voice

George Stoney

Filmmaker and Goddard Professor of Cinema
New York University

Debra Zimmerman

Executive Director
Women Make Movies

Sandra Braman

Professor
Department of Communication
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Andrew Calabrese

School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado

Katy Chevigny

Executive Director
Arts Engine, Inc.

Linda Garcia

Director
Communication, Culture & Technology Program
Georgetown University

David Liroff

Senior Vice President, System Development and Media Strategy
Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Kevin Martin

Vice President, Station Grants and Television Station Initiatives
Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Michael Schudson

Professor
Department of Communication
University of California - San Diego

Ernest J. Wilson III

Dean and Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication
School for Communication
University of Southern California

Don Young

Interim Executive Director
Center for Asian American Media

Working Group

The Center for Social Media Working Group is composed of School of Communication faculty who advise, assist and participate in the Center's activities.
Barbara Diggs-Brown
Jane Hall
Leena Jayaswal
Larry Kirkman
Brigid Maher
Kathryn Montgomery
Christopher Palmer
Rick Rockwell