Dr. Steven A. Channing
Steven Channing brings a wide range of experiences to his work, as an historian, author and Emmy Award winning filmmaker. He was born and educated in New York and began his professional life as an academic historian, with a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He taught at the Universities of Kentucky, Stanford, and at Duke, was a research fellow at Johns Hopkins and, as a Fulbright Exchange Scholar, taught at the University of Genoa, Italy. His published books include the Allen Nevins Prize winning study Crisis of Fear - Secession in South Carolina (1970), and Kentucky: A History (1976), and The Confederate Ordeal (1983) for Time-Life's Civil War series.
Dr. Channing founded Video Dialog Inc. (VDI) in 1987 to further his interest in producing documentary films for broadcast, to produce informational videos for diverse clients, and to create a series of educational videos for schools. A listing of his works for television (to the best of his recollection!) follow.
He is also, proudly, Co-Founder with Cynthia Hill, of the Southern Documentary Fund (www.southerndocumentaryfund.org) , a non-profit fiscal sponsor of independent media projects. Channing also served as an early member of the Board of the Museum of Durham History.