Paula
Whatley Matabane
Ph.D.,
Mass Communication (Howard University, 1985)
Associate Professor
pmatabane@howard.edu
Teaches
courses in television and film production, broadcast
history and communication research.
Dr. Paula Whatley Matabane is an award-winning media producer, published
scholar, ordained minister and educator in mass media, culture, and
religion. Her new documentary memoir, This Way Leads Home: Hair Like
Wool, Feet Like Brass, The Search for Jesus explores the complex and
extraordinary link between images of Jesus and the African-American
experience through a revealing tale of her own spiritual journey.
Dr. Matabane is an associate professor of television and film in the
Department of Radio, TV and Film and Coordinator of the TV Production
Sequence. She teaches media production and communications research.
Her scholarly research on media, social learning and race, gender, and
culture has been published in prestigious communications journals. She
has won awards and grants for her research and serves on the editorial
board of several communications journals.
Previously, Dr. Matabane wrote and produced the provocative independent
film "Africa in the Holy Land" which won four national awards including
the "Community Choice Award " from the National Black Programming
Consortium and "Best Documentary Award" from the Black Filmmakers Hall
of Fame. Shot on-location in Israel, this ground-breaking documentary
remains the only film ever made on the blacks in the Holy Bible,
offering exciting proof of a black presence in the Holy Bible from
Genesis to Revelation.
Dr. Matabane is also a guest producer at WHUT-TV and producer-writer of
informational and corporate videos. Formerly, she was a producer-host of
public affairs programming at WKAR-TV in Michigan, and producer-writer
of educational programs at Georgia Educational Television.
She holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (B.A.,
anthropology); Stanford University (M.A, documentary film) and two
degrees from Howard University (Ph.D., communications; M.Div.). A
native of Atlanta, GA., Paula Matabane is an ordained itinerant elder
in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and in her spare time runs the
marathon (26.2 miles). Her motto: live according to the possibilities
and not the limitations because I can do all things through Christ which
strengthens me.
Visit Professor Matabane's website http://www.i-onecreations.com
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