(Margaret) Allison Graham
Professor

Degrees Held

B.A., Florida State University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Florida

Academic Summary

Allison Graham’s research and teaching focus upon American culture, media, and politics (in particular, the evolving history and representation of the American South). Her works span the fields of documentary film production, journalism, and scholarly publication. Along with national awards for her film production work with colleagues David Appleby and Steve Ross (an Emmy nomination, among others), she has received international and national grants, including a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship from the U.K. that led to a Visiting Professorship at the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham (where she enjoys an honorary appointment as Special Professor of American Film).

Dr. Graham has delivered film and lecture presentations in forums as diverse as the Barbican Centre in London; C-SPAN Network; and cinemas and universities throughout the U.S., England, Northern Ireland, Sweden, and South Africa.  In addition to her research, she has developed civil rights tours of the Mississippi Delta for academic organizations and visiting scholars, has involved students in on-site research in post-Katrina New Orleans, and has organized annual study abroad tours for the University Honors Program (Ireland and Northern Ireland, Peru). 

Teaching Areas

Film history and criticism
American film genres
Rhetoric, media and politics

Selected Publications and Productions

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Media.  Co-Editor, with Sharon Monteith. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, forthcoming 2009

Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race During the Civil Rights Struggle.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2001.  (Paperback, 2003)

At the River I Stand (producer/director/writer with David Appleby and Steve Ross), 1993.

Lindsay Anderson.  Boston: Twayne Filmmakers Series, 1981.