CURRICULUM VITAE
MICHAEL T. MARTIN
Cinema and Media Studies
Media School, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
812 855-7631
TITLES & AFFILIATIONS (current&former at IU)
Class of 1948 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor
IU Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors
Affiliate Faculty:
African Studies Program
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES)
Editorial
[member] Editorial Advisory Board, Black Camera, An International Film Journal, IU Press
[former] Editor-in-Chief, Black Camera, An International Film Journal, 2006-2017
[former] Editor-in-Chief w/D. Wall (book series) Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora, 2015-26, IU Press
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Postcolonial cinemas
Diasporic and migrant/emigré cinematic formations
Redress social movements
Transnational migration
Documentary practice
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst; 1979; Psychology
Ed.M. Columbia University, New York; 1972; Applied Human Development
M.A. Columbia University, New York; 1971; Applied Human Development
B.A. City College, City University of New York; 1970; Sociology
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
2015—Professor,Cinema and Media Studies, Media School, Indiana University Bloomington
2011-2015—Professor, Department of Communication & Culture and American Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington
2006-2011—Professor, Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies & Adjunct Professor, American Studies Program and Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1997-2006—Professor, Ethnic Studies Department & Affiliate Faculty with rank of Professor, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University, OH
1990-1997—Professor, Africana Studies Department & Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1985-1989—Visiting Professor, Afro American Studies Program, [9/88-6/90 Lecturer with rank of Professor], Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1980-1989—Professor, Department of Pan African Studies, California State University, Secondary TSA, Department of Psychology [Associate Professor: 9/81-8/83; tenured and promoted to professor 9/83], Los Angeles, CA
1979-1980—Assistant Professor - Afro American Studies Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1974-1976—Instructor, Africana Studies and Research Institute, Queens College, CUNY, NY
1975-1976—Lecturer, Department of Afro-American Studies, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
2006-2017 Director, Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2008-2009 Acting Chair, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University, IN
1997-2005 Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University, OH
1995-1997 Co-director, African American Film Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1990-1996 Chair, Africana Studies Department, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1984-1990 Director, Third World Center, Princeton University, NJ
1981-1984 Chair, Department of Pan African Studies, California State University, LA
1979-1981 Director, Afro-American Division, Office of Minority Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1971-1976 Director, Special Services Program, Programs in Education, Hunter College, CUNY, NY
AFFILIATIONS (Other):
Indiana University
Graduate Faculty
IU Cinema—Program Advisory Board (2010-2017)
Advisory Board, Institute for Advanced Studies (2014-2020)
Advisory Board, College Arts & Humanities Institute CAHI (2016-18)
Burkina Faso
IMAGINE Film Training Institute, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
FESPACO—Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou
France
Revue Lisa/LISA e-journal (member of “Scientific Committee”; http://lisa.revues.org), see “Scientific Committee” membership
United Kingdom
June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (JGPACA) London
ADVSORY/EDITORIAL BOARDS & JURIES
2009 President du jury officiel DIASPORA, 2009 Edition of FESPACO, Burkina Faso
2009--2012 Editorial Board, Black Diaspora Review, Indiana University, Bloomington
2009 Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) ”Best Special Issue Award” (juror),Modern Languages Association (MLA)
2007-2009 Film Advisory Team, Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), IN
2007-2009 National Advisory Board, Washington University Film & Media Archive, St. Louis, MO
2007 Jury, 6th Annual Union Board Student Film Festival, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN (April)
2005 Jury, Canadian Embassy-IMAGINE Young African Filmmakers Film
Competition, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (February)
1993-96 Politics and Theory in the Black World Project
1991-95 Wayne State University Press
AWARDS & RESEARCH/TRAVEL GRANTS
2024 Class of 1948 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professorship
2015 Ostrom Grants Program, College of Arts & Sciences, Indiana University, IN
2015 Editor-in-Chief, Black Camera, An International Film Journal, “Project
MUSE Journal of the Month”
2010 Honorable Mention for “Best New Journal of 2010,” Council of Editors
of Learned Journals (CELJ) Modern Languages Association (MLA)
2010&2015 College Arts & Humanities Institute (CAHI-IU) “Conference, Simposios & Workshops” Grants
2009&2015 New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities (Lilly Endowment/IU), Bloomington
2006-13 Faculty Research Development Grants, Indiana University, Bloomington
2003&05 Invité (18ème & 19éme Éditions) Le Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de La Télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Burkina Faso
2001&03 Scholars Assistance Program, Bowling Green State University, OH
1998 Faculty Research Grant, Bowling Green State University, OH
1993&95 Research Development Grant, Wayne State University, MI
1993 President's Bonus Award, Wayne State University, MI
1990 Mellon Foundation Grant, Princeton University (declined when I accepted a post at
Wayne State University, Detroit)
1989 LASA Award of Merit in Film, Latin American Studies Association, XV International Congress
1986-89 Faculty Development Grants, Princeton University, NJ
1982&83 Faculty Development Grants, California State University, LA
PUBLICATIONS
[Book-in-development]
Martin, M.T. Precarity by Design: Conversations on the Labors and Narratives of Visual, Media (2027), 923 pp
[Books published]
Martin, M.T. w/Kaboré, eds. African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization, Indiana University Press, 2023, 1923 pp. [shortlisted for the 2024 Kraszna-Kraus Moving Image Book Award, UK]
Volume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articulations, 608 pp.
Volume 2: FESPACO—Formation, Evolution Challenges, 643 pp.
Volume 3: The Documentary Record—Declarations, Resolutions, Manifestos, Speeches, 672 pp.
Martin, M.T. w/Wall, eds. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep. Indiana University, 2020, 277 pp.
Martin, M.T. ed., The Birth of a Nation: The Cinematic Past in the Present. Indiana University Press, 2019, 314 pp.
Martin, M.T. w/Wall, eds. Race & the Revolutionary Impulse in The Spook Who Sat By the Door. Indiana University Press, 2018, 222 pp.
David C. Wall and M.T. Martin, eds. The Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man. Indiana University Press, 2015, 306 pp.
Martin, M.T. & Yaquinto, M. (eds.). Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On
Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies. Duke University Press, 2007. 702 pp.
Martin, M.T. (ed.). New Latin American Cinema. Wayne State University Press, 1997.
Vol. 1 Theory, Practices, and Transcontinental Articulations. 332 pp.
Vol. 2 Studies of National Cinemas. 540 pp.
Martin, M.T. (ed.). Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence and Oppositionality.
Wayne State University Press, 1995, 522 pp.
Martin, M.T. & Kandal, T. (eds.). Studies of Development and Change in the Modern World.
Oxford University Press, 1989, 458 pp.
JOURNAL EDITOR/CO-EDITOR
Martin, M.T. w/ Gaston Kaborè “African Cinema: Manifesto & Practice for Cultural Decolonization,” [Parts 1,2,3], Black Camera, An International Film Journal, vol. 12, nos. 1 +2 (2020-21) and vol. 13, no. 1 (2021): 2,000 pp. https://mediaschool.indiana.edu/news-events/news/item.html?n=black-camera-publishes-3rd-collaborative-issue-with-fespaco-concluding-2-year-initiative
Martin, M.T. w/Wall, Editor-in-Chief [book series]: Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora. Indiana University Press
Martin, M.T. Editor-in-Chief: Black Camera, An International Film Journal. Black Film Center/Archive & Indiana University Press
Martin, M.T. & M. Yaquinto America’s Unpaid Debt: Slavery and Racial Justice, Working Papers Series on Historical Systems, Peoples, and Cultures, Nos. 14-16. Bowling Green State University, 2003, 92 pp.
Martin, M.T. & Kandal, T.R. The Sociology of Development in Core and Peripheral Societies, CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGIST, 1985, Vol.8, nos.1-2, 334 pp.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
Adesokan, A. w/ Martin, “The Future of African Filmmaking: A Roundtable Discussion,” Black
Camera, vol. 17, no. 1 (Fall) 2025: 16-43
Martin, M.T., “Situating the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive in the Play of Memory,” PerAnkh, The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, Raven Row, London, 2023: 41- 4
Martin, M.T., “That’s the Difference—I Am Fully Engaged with Art’: Renee Baker on the Practice of Scoring Silent Films and the Matter of ‘Race Movies,”, Black Camera, vol. 12, no. 2 (Fall) 2023: 7-48
Martin, M.T., “The Land Beneath Our Feet: The Enduring Legacy of the Past in the Present,” Africa Today, vol. 67, no. 1 (Fall) 2020: 73-94
Martin, M.T., “On ‘Mediated Solidarity’: Reading Ousmane Sembene in Sembene!” Black Camera, vol. 12, no. 2 (Spring) 2021: 485-522
Martin, M.T., “The Long Take: Gaston Kaborè on the Formation, Evolution & Challenges to FEPACI & FESPACO,” Black Camera, vol. 12, no.1 (Fall) 2020: 209-36
Martin, M.T., “Founding Myths and Storytelling: The African Modern,” Black Camera, vol. 12, no. 1, 2020: 601-04
Martin, M.T., “Boots Riley on Sorry to Bother You and the Matter of the Good Fight,” Black Camera, vol. 11, no. 2 (Fall) 2020: 176-215
Martin, M.T., “The Practice of Curating the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive: A Conversation with the Founding Director,” Black Camera, vol. 11, no. 1 2019: 40-61
Martin, M.T. w/N. Griffis, “Black Women Becoming Whole: Bridgett M. Davis on Naked Acts, Black Camera, vol. 11, no. 2, 2019: 13-39
Martin, M.T., “Close-up: On the Colony’s Postcolony Encounter in Claire Denis’s Chocolat and White Material,” Black Camera, vol. 10, no. 1, 2018: 96-98, 99-122, 144-55
Martin, M.T.w/Y. Kamara, “On the Commerce of Intimacy: Dany Laferriere on How to Make Love to a Negro…and Heading South,” Black Camera, vol. 9, no. 1, 2017: 80-105
Martin, M.T. “Nelson Pereira dos Santos on Who Is Beta? and Such Other Dauntingly Brazilian Maladies,” Black Camera, vol. 7, no. 2, 2016: 11-36
Martin, M.T. “’I Just Wanted My Figures to Move’: The Filmmaking Practice of Mike Henderson,” Black Camera, vol. 7, no. 1, 2015: 60-90
Martin, M.T. “Struggles for the sign in the Black Atlantic: Los Angeles Collective of Black Filmmakers,” L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-
Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, eds. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015: 196-224; winner of the 2016 Kraszna Krausz Book Award
Martin, M.T. and M. Moorman. “The Civilizing Mission of Globalization’: Technology, African Cinematic Practice, and Overcoming Neocolonialism—A Conversation with Filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno,” Third Text, vol. 29, nos. 1-2, 2015: 61-74
Martin, M.T. “Conversations with Ava DuVernay—‘A Call to Action’: Organizing Principles of An Activist Cinematic Practice,” Black Camera, vol. 6, no. 1, 2014: 57-91
Martin, M.T.& D. Wall. “Race, Space, and Gender in Ed Bland’s Cry of Jazz,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 31, no. 2, 2014: 136-147
Martin, M.T. “Madeline Anderson in Conversation: Pioneering an African American Documentary Tradition,” Black Camera, 5, no. 1, 2013: 68-96
Martin, M.T. & D. Wall. “The Politics of Cine-Memory: Signifying Slavery in the History Film,” The Blackwell Companion to Historical Film, Robert Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu, eds. MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013: 445-467
Martin, M.T. “Filmmaking is My Life, Politics My Mistress: donnie l. betts,” Black Camera, 3, no.3, 2012: 58-84
Martin, M.T. “’I Make Documentaries to Give Voice to the Voiceless’: The Film Practice of Yoruba Richen,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 28, no. 3, 2011: 183-194
Martin, M.T. (with D. Wall) “’Where are you From?’: Performing Race in the Art of Jefferson Pinder,” Black Camera, vol. 2, no. 1, 2010: 72-105
Martin, M.T. “Documenting Modern Day Slavery in the Dominican Republic: An Interview with Amy Serrano,” Camera Obscura, 74 vol. 25, no. 2, 2010: 161-172
Martin, M.T. “’I Do Exist’: From ‘Black Insurgent’ to Negotiating the Hollywood Divide—A Conversation with Julie Dash,” Cinema Journal, vol. 49, no. 2, 2010: 1-16
Martin, M.T. & M. Moorman “Imagining Angola in Luanda with Ondjaki,” Black Camera, vol.1, no. 2, 2010: 38-62
Martin, M.T. “’Podium for the Truth’? Reading Slavery and the Neocolonial Project in the Historical Film: Queimada! (Burn!) and Sankofa in Counterpoint,” Third Text, vol. 23, issue 6, 2009: 717-731
Martin, M.T. “Joseph Gai Ramaka: ‘I am not a filmmaker engagé. I am an ordinary citizen engagé,” Research in African Literatures, vol. 40, no. 3, 2009: 206-219.
Martin, M.T. with E. Julien. “Charles Burnett—Consummate Cineaste,” Black Camera, vol. 1, no.1, 2009: 143-170
Martin, M.T. & M. Yaquinto. “Diasporic Cinemas,” Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film (Vol. 2: Criticism-Ideology). Barry Keith Grant, editor-in-chief. Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson Gale, 2006: 57-60
Martin, M.T. & M. Yaquinto. “Reparations for ‘America’s Holocaust’: Activism for Global Justice,” Race & Class [Institute of Race Relations], vol. 45, no. 4, 2004: 1-25
Martin, M.T. & B. Paddington. “Mexican Cinema and the ‘Generation of the 1990s’ Filmmakers: A Conversation with Francisco Athié,” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, vol. 45, no. 1, 2004: 115-28
Martin, M.T. & B. Paddington. “On the Cusp of Postmodernity: Lolo and Fibra Optica in Contemporary Mexican Cinema,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, 2003: 191-214
Martin, M.T. “’I am a Storyteller, Drawing Water from the Well of My Culture’ Gaston Kaboré, Griot of African Cinema,” Research in African Literatures, vol. 33, no. 4, 2002: 161-79.
Martin, M.T. & B. Paddington. “The Baroque as Cinematic Style and Metaphor: Humberto Solas on El siglo de las Luces,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 18, no. 2, 2001: 157-67
Martin, M.T. & B. Paddington. “Restoration or Innovation?: Humberto Solas on the Problems of Post-revolutionary Cuban Cinema,” Film Quarterly, vol. 54, no.3, 2001: 2-13.
Martin, M.T. “Fortress Europe and Third World Immigration in the Post-Cold War Global Context,” Third World Quarterly, vol. 20, no.4, 1999: 821-37
Martin, M.T. “Filmmaking, the State, and Social Relations in Brazil: An Interview with Suzana Amaral,” The New Latin American Cinema (vol.2) edited by Michael T. Martin. Wayne State University, 1997: 323-34
Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., Martin, M. and Stallworth, L.M., “Consensual Racism and Career Track: Some Implications of Social Dominance Theory,” Political Psychology, 1991, vol.12, no.4: 691-721
Martin, M.T. “On Culture, Politics, and the State in Nicaragua: An Interview with Padre Ernesto Cardenal, Minister of Culture,” Latin American Perspectives, 1989, vol. 16 (issue 61), no. 2: 124-33
Martin, M.T. “The South African Credit Crisis of 1985,” TransAfrica Forum, vol.4, no. 11986:17-30
Martin, M.T. “Free Market Approaches to Dependent Capitalist Development: The Caribbean Basin Initiative -- A Case Study,” Transition, 1986, no.14: 37-55; a different version of this article, under the title “Laissez Faire Approaches to Third World Development: The Caribbean Basin Initiative: A Case Study,” appears as a chapter in Perspectives in International Development, edited by Mekki Mtewa. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1986: 139-50
Martin, M.T. “The Current Economic Crisis and the Caribbean Periphery: U.S. International Economic Policy during the Republican Administration of 1981-84,” California Sociologist, 1985, vol.8, nos. 1-2: 73-109. Revised and published as a chapter under the same title in Studies of Development & Change in the Modern World, Michael T. Martin and Terry Kandal, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989: 111-49
Martin, M.T. “The Afro American Image in Film and Television: The Legitimization of the Racial Divisions in the American Social Order,” Presence Africaine, 1982 (4th quarter), no.124: 144-67
Martin, M.T. & L.Yeakey. “Pan-African Asian Solidarity: A Central Theme in W.E.B. DuBois’s Conception of Racial Stratification and Struggle on a World Scale,” Phylon, vol.42, no. 3 1982: 202-17 (also published in conference proceedings, see below)
Martin, M.T. & H. Cohen. “Late Capitalism, Race and Neocolonial Domination: Discontinuities in Marxist Theory,” Presence Africaine, 1980 (3rd quarter), no.115: 29-60
Bates, J. & Martin, M.T. “The Thematic Content of Graffiti as a Non-Reactive Indicator of Male and Female Attitudes,” Journal of Sex Research, vol.16, no. 4 1980: 300-15
Martin, M.T. & H.Cohen. “Race and Class Consciousness: A Critique of the Marxist Concept of Race Relations,” The Western Journal of Black Studies, vol.4, no.2 1980: 84-91
Martin, M.T. “Education and the Legitimation Crisis in Capitalist Society,” Umoja, A Scholarly Journal of Black Studies, vol.1, no.1 1977: 33-46
RADIO INTERVIEW
M.T. Martin, “Who Gets to Tell Our Stories? Charles Burnett and the Responsibility of the Artist. Interchange, WFHB community radio, March 13, 2018. http://wfhb.org/news/interchange-who-gets-to-tell-our-stories-charles-burnett-and-the-responsibility-of-the-artist/
PROCEEDINGS
Martin, M.T. “Third World Migrants, Immigrants and Refugees in Europe’s Metropoles: Incorporation or Peripheralization after 1992?” 17th Annual Third World Conference, edited by Daphne Williams Ntiri. Chicago: Third World Conference Foundation, 1992: 72-81
Martin, M.T. and L. Yeakey, “Pan African-Asian Solidarity: A Central Theme in W.E.B. DuBois' Conception of Racial Stratification on a World Scale.” National Council for Black Studies annual conference. RACE/CLASS edited by G.A. McWhorter. Urbana, Illinois: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, 1982: 1-23
NON-REFERRED PUBLICATIONS
Martin, M.T., (Foreword) to Barry Jenkins and the Legacies of Slavery by Delphine Letort. Lexington Books, 2023, ix-xiii pp
Martin, M.T. “The Cinematographic Archive of Claire Denis: Poster Art as Cultural Labor,” Claire Denis: Confronting the Other. Posters From the Black Film Center/Archive, Nov. 5- Dec. 14, 2012: 1-4
Martin, M.T. & Yeakey, L.H. “W.E.B. DuBois and China,” New China, vol.2, no. 3 1976: 40-43
Martin, M.T. “The Functions of Colonial Education,” Black World, vol. 24, no.10 1975: 4-16 Lukowsky, J. & M.T. Martin. “Vietnamese Speak on Reconstruction and National Reunification,” Liberation News Service, no. 702 1975: 2-4
BOOK/FILM ENTRIES & REVIEWS
Martin, M.T. & David C. Wall. “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” National Film Registry, Library of Congress, 2015
Martin, M.T. & David C. Wall. “Sidney Poitier,” Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture [vol. 3], Greenwood, Santa Barbara, CA: 2011: 1108-1110
Martin, M.T. Review of Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism by Kenneth Harrow, American Historical Review (February 2009)
Martin, M.T. “The Rupture of the Master/Slave Dialectic in Burn! (Queimada!) by Gillo
Pontecorvo” in 1000 Key Moments in Cinema, Chris Fujiwara, editor. Cassell Illustrated, London, 2007: 440
Martin, M.T. Third World Cinemas in “Latin American History and Critical Media Studies:
Curricular Explorations” By Scott L. Baugh, Film & History, vol. 43, no. 2, 2004: 77-78
Martin, M.T. & Yaquinto, M. “Reparations for America’s Holocaust: activism for global
Justice,” International Political Science Abstracts, [reference 64.7581] vol. 54, no. 6, 2004
Martin, M.T. Review of Perspectives on Development: Cross-Disciplinary Themes in
Development, edited by P.F. Leeson and M.M. Minogue. Manchester University Press, 1988 in Contemporary Sociology, 1990, vol. 19, no. 4: 538-39
Martin, M.T. Review of Cinema and Social Change in West Africa, by Onookome Okome and Jonathan Haynes. Jos: Nigerian Film Corporation, 1995 in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 1998, vol.18, no. 4: 641-43
Martin, M.T. “The Social Psychology of African Americans” and “The Portrayal of the Colonized in Film.” In Source Book on the Teaching of Black Psychology and Education, Reginald L. Jones, ed. Washington, D.C.: Association of Black Psychologists, 1980: 236-41
Turner, C.B., Harrell, T. & Martin, M.T. “Psychology of Cross-Cultural Relations.” In Source Book on the Teaching of Black Psychology and Education, Reginald L. Jones, ed. Washington, D.C.: Association of Black Psychologists, 1980: 259-66
READER & CONSULTANCIES
2016 “Scientific Committee” (member), revue Lisa/LISA e-journal (http://lisa.revues.org) [noted above]
2009 Panelist/Evaluator: Faculty Research Awards Program, Division of Research, National Endowment for the Humanities (August)
2006 Film script consultant: “Gaston J.M. Kabore: L’Enfant Prodige du Cinema Africain.” Sahels Films Productions. In Co-production with HJMC Productions, April
1992-94 Task Force on “Diasporan Issues,” National African American Museum Project, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1985-87 National Selection Committee. The International Student Identity Card Scholarship Fund, Council on International Educational Exchange
1984 (spring) Academic Review Panel. Business and International Education Program, Office of Post-Secondary Education. U.S. Department of Ed
MANUSCRIPT READER
Routledge
Oxford University Press
Edinburgh University Press
University of Texas Press
Greenwood Publishing Group
Wayne State University Press
Cinema Journal
Contemporary Sociology
Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
Research in African Literatures
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers
Indiana University Press
Journal of African Cinemas
American Historical Review
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS & INVITED KEYNOTE
2013 [keynote] “Locating Class in the African American Cinematographic Archive”.
Representing Social Classes in Films in English-Speaking Countries, Univesity of Rennes 2, France, October 10-11.
2011 “Constituents of a Cinematic Formation and Enduring Tradition: The Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers”. L.A. Rebellion: Creating A New Black Cinema Symposium, UCLA Film & Television Archive, November 12.
2011 “Historical Trauma: Reading Slavery in the Cinematographic Archive”. Articulations of Memory in Cinema, University of Ottawa, Canada, September 2-3.
2011 [keynote] “Founding Myths and Storytelling,” Institut IMAGINE, Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso, March 28
2005 “Slavery in the Colonial/Neo-colonial Matrix”. In, Around & Beyond Haile Gerima’s Sankofa, The Atlantic Studies Initiative, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 18-19 2004 “Mapping the Underclass and Beur Experience in French and Belgium Cinemas”. Second
International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. Monash University Centre, 20-23 July, Prato, Italy
2001 “Antinomies of Maastricht and Globalization: The Émigré Experience in Recent French
Cinema”. Augural International Media Conference. British Film Institute, July 24-27, London, UK 1995 “Europe’s Doorstep: War, Rapid Population Growth & Migration from the Southern
Peripheries” What are the Alternatives? Black Politics and Theory in Crisis: An International Symposium. Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University, September 8-10
DOCUMENTARY VIDEO PRODUCTION
10/88 IN THE ABSENCE OF PEACE [Martin/Shepard Productions; written and directed by
Michael T. Martin; award winning video documentary in Spanish and English, 54:00, color]. Distributed by THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL
Festival/Exhibition Competitions/Screenings
10th Annual International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Television & Video, Havana, Cuba, October 18, 1988
22nd Annual Humboldt Film & Video Festival, Department of Theatre Arts, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA., April 3-9, 1989
Finalist [Feature Documentary] Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens Center for Film & Video, Athens, OH, April 28-May 6, 1989
· “Eyes Across the Water,” Department of Visual Anthropology, Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 21-24, 1989
· “Encuentro de Cine y Video Alternativo,” Taller De Cine La Red, Puerto Rico, November 16-18, 1989
LASA 1989 Award of Merit in Film [juried award for excellence in the visual
presentation of educational and artistic materials on Latin America] 1989 LASA Film
Festival, Latin American Studies Association XV International Congress, Miami, December 2-4, 1989
San Antonio Cinefestival 1990, San Antonio, Texas, January 31-February 3, 1990
Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), New York, February 28, 1990
Leicester International Film & Video Festival, Leicester, England, May 19-June 2, 1990
2nd CineSanJuan Film Festival, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 12-19, 1990
6th Black International Cinema Berlin 1991, Berlin, West Germany, April 18-21, 1991
Costa Atlantica: die andere halfte nicaraguas, Galerie Olga Benario, Berlin, August 6, 1991
Television Broadcasts
WLIW-TV Channel 21 [PBS] -- (June 90)
KRCB-TV Channel 22 [PBS] -- (August 90)
WHYY-TV Channel 12 [PBS] -- (October 90; April 91)
[Select] WORKSHOPS/PANELS/LECTURES
9/19 Moderator, “Vieyra, Post-Colonial Intellectual,” Workshop Paulin Vieyra, Sept. 5-6, 2019
4/06 “Documenting Sandinista Revolution Under Seize” [talk and screening]. “Documentary
and Film Series,” Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 10
3/06 Reparations Across the Americas [chair/discussant: panel on “Attitudes, Politics, and the Logistics of Reparations,” 8th International Scholars Conference, Institute of African American Research (IAAR), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 30 March—1 April
4/91 The Filmmaker and Society (panelist). 6th Black International Cinema Berlin 1991, Berlin, Germany, 18-21
3/91 Reflections and Revisions: Twenty Years of Afro-American and African Studies (panelist).
Center for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 16
RESEARCH GROUP
1982/83 Black Economic Roundtable (member). Race Relations Institute, Fisk University. Nashville, Tennessee.
SECOND LANGUAGE
Italian
TRAVEL
West Africa, East Asia, Caribbean, Central and South America, Western and Northern Europe