Professorship in Film Studies

FAIN: CH-50716-10

Eckerd College (St. Petersburg, FL 33711-4744)
Lloyd W. Chapin (Project Director: May 2009 to June 2010)
Nathan T. Andersen (Project Director: July 2010 to August 2013)

Endowment for a faculty position in Film Studies and in the use of film across humanities disciplines.

Eckerd College requests a Challenge Grant of $300,000 to support the addition of an endowed professorship in Film Studies. The addition of this professorship is the next step in strengthening the humanities at Eckerd. It will make possible the development of a coherent set of courses that will draw more students to an appreciation of the humanities through film and serve as the foundation of an innovative major drawing on humanities disciplines. The College will raise $1,000,000 through its current capital campaign to match the Challenge Grant in order to create an endowment to fund the position.

Associated Products

Christian Nielsen Endowed Professorship in Film Studies (Staff/Faculty/Fellow Position)
Name: Christian Nielsen Endowed Professorship in Film Studies
Abstract: Eckerd College is pleased to announce that we have hired Dr. Christina Petersen to be the Christian Nielsen Endowed Professor in Film Studies. Dr. Petersen has a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation was entitled “Paradise for the Young: Youth Spectatorship in the American Silent Film Era, 1904-1933” and she has taught at both the University of Chicago and at Washington University in St. Louis.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.theonlinecurrent.com/film-program-poised-for-expansion-possible-major-1.2840775#.UBLBzTFku6A
Primary URL Description: Announcement in Eckerd College's award-winning newspaper, The Current, of the hire of Christina Petersen and of the imminent expansion of our film studies program.

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