Biography
Please see www.sheilacurranbernard.com.
Upcoming: Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Cambridge University Press, July 2024. Research and writing supported in part with a National Endowment for the Humanities 2021-22 Public Scholars Award.Â
Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, author, and educator. Credits as writer include the feature documentary Slavery by Another Name (PBS), based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Author, Documentary Storytelling, 5th ed. (Routledge 2022), with various editions available in Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, Polish, and Arabic. Co-author with Kenn Rabin, Archival Storytelling, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2020).Â
Tenured associate professor, Department of History, University at Albany, State University of New York, where I also teach in the undergraduate program in Documentary Studies and am director of the Graduate Program in Public History. Â
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Films
Slavery by Another Name, writer (2012)
Role: Other
Funded in part by the NEH and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas A. Blackmon, this 90-minute feature documentary looks at convict leasing, peonage, and other forms of forced, unpaid labor, primarily affecting African Americans in the U.S. South, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of World War II. Directed by Sam Pollard, the film is one of four showcased in an ongoing national public engagement campaign of the NEH. Full film streaming at link above; a 20-minute classroom version is also available.
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