Faculty

Gerald Zahavi, Professor, Documentary Studies Program and Department of History, Program Director.  Prof. Zahavi is currently producing Red Montana, a video documentary based on his award-winning article, “’Who’s Going to Dance With Somebody Who Calls You a Mainstreeter?’”For more information, visit his website.

Email:  gzahavi@albany.edu
Office:  SS 145 (mail); SS 060R
Office hours:  Tue 3:00pm-5:00pm; Wed 2:00pm-4:00pm; also by appt.

Sheila Curran Bernard, Assistant Professor, Documentary Studies Program and Department of History, Program Acting Director (Fall 2012).  Prof. Bernard is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and author. For more information, visit her website.  
Email:  sbernard@albany.edu
Office:  SS 145 (mail); SS 060D
Office hours: Tue, Thu 10:30am-12:00pm; also by appt.

Susan L. McCormick, Lecturer, Documentary Studies and History. Prof. McCormick teaches Introduction to Documentary Studies and oral history. She sits on the editorial board of The Oral History Review and is co-producer of the weekly radio program, Talking History.
Email: smmcormick@albany.edu
Office:  SS 145 (mail); SS 060X
Office hours: Mon 11:00 am-12:30pm (Social Science 60X); Wed immediately after class -5:30pm (SLG 024); also by appt. and by appointamment

Kyra Garrigue, Lecturer, Documentary Studies Program.  Prof. Garrigue is a digital media artist whose video and audio pieces have been widely exhibited, at venues including The New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center; The International Media Art Festival-Art in the Age of New Technologies at The Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia; and CITYZOOMS  at The Uebersee Museum, Bremen, Germany. 
Email:  kgarrigue@albany.edu
Office:  SS 145 (mail); SS 060E
Office hours: Tu/Th 9:00-10:00am and by appointment

Julie Casper Roth, Lecturer, Documentary Studies Program and Department of Art.  Prof. Roth is an award-winning filmmaker and video artist.  She is a 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Video and one of five national recipients of the 2012 College Art Association's Professional Development Fellowship.  For more information, visit her website.
Email:  julie.casper.roth@gmail.com
Office:  SS 145 (mail); SS 060E
Office hours: By appointment

Katherine Van Acker, Lecturer, Documentary Studies Program and Journalism Program.  Prof. Van Acker is an award-winning photojournalist and photo editor and the director of PresStock at The Image Works in Woodstock, New York.  For more information, visit her website.
Email:  kva@katherinevanacker.com
Office:  HU 362
Office Hours: Thu 8:35pm-9:35pm, also by appt., email anytime

Affiliated Faculty

Art Department
Adam Frelin, Assistant Professor of Art
Phyllis Galembo, Professor of Photography, Department of Art
Daniel S. Goodwin, Associate Professor of Digital Media & Photography

Communications Department
Teresa M. Harrison, Professor and Interim Chair
William Husson, Lecturer
Nancy Roberts, Professor of Communication and Director of the University at Albany Journalism Program

Journalism Program
Nancy Roberts, Director

Music Department
Robert Gluck, Associate Professor of Music and Director of the university at Albany Electronic Music Studio

Women’s Studies Department
Vivien Ng, Associate Professor and Chair