Antony Cherian

Email: cherian@ischool.utexas.edu
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Home Phone: 512- 762-1575

Committee
Dr. Loriene Roy, Chair

Degrees
MSIS, 2002, University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests
Currently working on a grant with the staff at Varner-Hogg Plantation state historic site to create a series of public programs, a documentary film and an interactive DVD and Web site titled: Project in Interpreting the Texas Past

Bio
Co-authored and produced a feature documentary video, "Truth I Ever Told," through an IE fellowship from the Project in Interpreting the Texas Past. "Truth I Ever Told" won the American Folklore Society's 2003 Zora Neale Hurston Prize in African American Studies for its oral history of an African American farming community in rural Washington County, Texas, and an excerpt from the documentary is featured in the Texas State History Museum's exhibit "Play Ball!: Texas Baseball."
Worked on public history and digital media projects for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, Diverse Arts' Austin Blues Family Tree, the Lummi Nation's Northwest Indian College and The University of Texas at Austin's College of Natural Sciences.