Phone:
(205)
348-8624
Office:
192
Phifer
Email:
dcammeron [at] cpt.ua.edu
Personal web page: N/A
Research/Teaching/Creative Work:
Planning, supervising,
and evaluating program production by the Center for Public Television
& Radio for Alabama Public Television (APT); developing ideas
and strategies for statewide and regional program distribution; directing
staff in writing grants and underwriting proposals for program production
funds; coordinating facility's post production schedule; and serving
as a liaison between CPT&R and APT's programming and development
departments.
Classes recently taught:
TCF 441/541 Documentary Form
Select Publications and Creative
Work:
Moments of Dignity, 04/22/02
Booker T. Washington established the photography department
at Tuskegee Institute in the early 1900s, Cornelius Marion Battey
was its first instructor, and P.H. Polk was Battey’s protégé.
Discover Polk’s vivid, evocative photographs and see the unique
perspective of Alabama life created by African American photographers
at Tuskegee.
Promised Land: The Communities of Mon Louis and Colony,
5/11/00.
People in a Creole bayside community and an African American
town in Cullman County struggle to keep the land they have held for
generations.
Still Holding On: The Music of Dorothy Love Coates and
the Original Harmonettes, 5/20/99.
Birmingham's Dorothy Love Coates is a vibrant performer,
a prolific composer, and played a major role in shaping contemporary
African American sacred music and worship services. During her 50
year career she wrote and published over 300songs, recorded 20 albums,
and her music has been recorded by musicians, including Mahalia Jackson,
Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, The Blackwood Brothers, Rev. James Cleveland,
Buddy Rich, and the Statesmen Quartet
A Season with the Forgotten Farmers, 4/3/97.
An eight-month diary of two devoted African American farmers
in Alabama’s Black Belt. Rev. John Ward of Perry County and
John Henry Travis of Hale County are two of what many call the last
generation of African American farmers. Their family’s farming
legacy will end when they retire. They represent thousands who labor
each season, chasing their dream of a bountiful harvest.
