Maher shooting her documentary Veiled Voices.
Brigid Maher
Associate Professor
School of Communication
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Additional Positions at AU
Program Director, Digital Media Skills Graduate Certificate
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Brigid Maher is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. She is a filmmaker and writer who heads the Emerging Media concentration in SOC’s Film and Media Arts Division. Her scholarly writing focuses on the interplay between traditional film and new media theories. Her award-winning narrative and documentary films have shown in festivals in the U.S. and abroad.
Her latest documentary, Veiled Voices, focuses on the phenomenon of Muslim women religious leaders in Islam. Veiled Voices is distributed by Typecast Releasing in the United States and has screened on over 150 public television stations and three national networks. Al Jazeera Network recently acquired the film for broadcast in the Middle East and North Africa. The film has additional international distribution through TVF International and has screened in numerous international festivals in the United States and abroad.
Maher won a Fulbright Senior Award to teach broadcast media in Lebanon in the spring of 2005. She teaches digital media and editing courses for SOC. -
Degrees
BA Philosophy/International Affairs, Minor in Cinema Studies, The Colorado College; MFA Radio/Television/Film Department, Northwestern University - DOWNLOAD FULL BIO (PDF)
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OFFICE
- SOC - School of Communication
- On sabbatical in Fall 2012
CONTACT INFO
- (202) 885-2664 (Office)
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FOR THE MEDIA
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Teaching
Spring 2013
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- COMM-602 Digital Media Literacy Skills
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- COMM-701 Grad Sem Film Theory&Practice
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Fall 2013
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- COMM-555 Techniques/Aesthetics Editing
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- COMM-602 Digital Media Literacy Skills
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Films/Documentaries
VEILED VOICES. Producer and Director. HD. The feature-length documentary investigates the role of Muslim women leaders in contemporary Islam.
AU News and Achievements
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Maher Helps Egyptians Share Stories of Revolution
The SOC professor visited Egypt in June to teach groups of aspiring storytellers how to create short ...
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First Person: Teaching Animation in Morocco
Student Esin Ozdag writes about helping professor Brigid Maher lead an animation workshop in Morocco....
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Professors' 2011 New Year's Resolutions
SOC professors don’t do anything halfway. If their New Year’s resolutions are any indication, these ...
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Professor Explores Changing Face of Midwifery in New Film
Maher's film follows DC-based nurse midwives, their patients, and the doctors they work with over a ...
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Q&A With "Veiled Voices" Director Brigid Maher
Filmmaker, writer and head of the New Media concentration in SOC’s Film and Media Arts Division Brigid ...
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Emmy Win for Environmental Film Students
Ecoviews, a program developed by students in Sandy-Cannon Brown's class, has netted an Emmy....
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Digital Media Native Joins New Program
Beginning in the fall, Richard Harrington will be teaching “Video for Social Media”, a course that he ...
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EcoViews: Reclaiming the Bay airs on MPT
American University graduate students' three short films about restoration efforts to fix the ailing ...
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New Certificate Program Steps Up AU's Online Offerings
A new online certificate program offered by SOC is ideal for communications professionals who want to ...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Code
"I went from knowing nothing about coding to creating a website in a couple months," says Peggy Aulino ...
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Events
(rss)| Coming Soon | Date |
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| Waterworks | 05/26/13 |
| Spring 2013 Exhibitions: Lee Haner, Painting Borges, and Saturation Point | 05/26/13 |
| Spring 2013 Exhibitions: Timothy App | 05/26/13 |
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