Stephen Charbonneau

Stephen Charbonneau is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Florida Atlantic University, where he is also a Fellow for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters' Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Initiative. He is the author of Projecting Race: Postwar America, Civil Rights, and Documentary Film (Wallflower Press). In 2012-2013, he received a Fulbright Fellowship and served as a Visiting Research Chair in Social Science, Humanities, and Fine Arts at the University of Alberta. Since 2013 he has also organized a number of conference events for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, including "Mediated Rights: The Transformative Power of Images, from Selma to Ferguson" in 2016 (Atlanta, GA); "15 Years Later, Global Activism in the Wake of the Battle for Seattle: Remixing History" in 2014 (Seattle, WA); and "Public Media 2.0: A Conversation on the Future of Urban Documentary and Social Change with Allan Siegel, Steve James, and Gordon Quinn" in 2013 (Chicago, IL). His work on media pedagogy, youth media, and documentary film has been published in Jump Cut, Journal of Popular Film & Television, Framework, Spectator, Journal of Popular Culture, as well as the anthologies The Grierson Effect (BFI) and Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press). He is currently editing an anthology on media activism with Chris Robé.