Visual & Media Arts Faculty
Claire Andrade-WatkinsAssociate Professor (1982) B.A., Simmons College; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., Boston University http://www.spiamedia.com Dr. Claire Andrade-Watkins is a historian, filmmaker and 2nd generation American of Cape Verdean descent. Her scholarship focuses on French and Portuguese language African cinema. She was a 1995-1996 Fulbright Scholar in Cape Verde, and a recipient of an American Philosophical Society grant in l997. She was an Associate Producer on Odyssey, a National PBS anthropology and archaeology documentary series, and Assistant to the Producer on Sankofa, an internationally acclaimed feature film on slavery by filmmaker Haile Gerima. She is the founder and President of SPIA Media Productions, Inc., a production and distribution company specializing in media from the Africana Diaspora. In 2006, SPIA Media released her award-winning feature length documentary,"Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?": A Cape Verdean American Story; - the first in a series of three documentaries about the Cape Verdean community in North America. Dr. Andrade-Watkins is a returning Visiting Scholar for the 2008/2009 Academic Year at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. |
