Bernie Cook (C’90, MA’91, Parent’23)
Associate Dean in Georgetown College and Founding Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at Georgetown University
Bernie Cook, Ph.D., (C’90, MA’91, Parent’23) is associate dean in Georgetown College and founding director of the Film and Media Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is the author of Flood of Images: Media, Memory and Hurricane Katrina (University of Texas Press, 2015) and editor of Thelma & Louise Live! The Cultural Afterlife of an American Film (University of Texas Press, 2007). He is currently in production on a documentary series entitled Since Last We Met, which shares stories of the living descendants of the 272 enslaved people sold by the Jesuits of Maryland in 1838 and explores the possibilities for reconciliation and justice. He is a member of the core faculties of the Film and Media Studies Program and the American Studies Program, and he has created and taught a range of courses at Georgetown focused on documentary media, film studies, social justice, and the American past.