About Michael T. Martin

Michael T. Martin is Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor (Class of 1948) Emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington. Dr. Martin taught and continues to research diasporic cinema, documentary practice, and Latin, African, and Caribbean postcolonial cinemas. Dr. Martin has published or co-published several books, including Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality (1995), Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies (2007), The Birth of a Nation: The Cinematic Past in the Present (2019), and From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (2020), in addition to many scholarly journal articles. At Indiana University, Dr. Martin served as director of the BFCA for nine years until 2017. During this time, he expanded the BFCA's newsletter into a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Black Camera, which he continued to edit until 2025.He is the co-editor of Studies of Development and Change in the Modern World and the director and co-producer of the award-winning documentary, In the Absence of Peace.