H. James Gilmore

H. James Gilmore is a Clinical Professor of Communication at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and co-founder of their Journalism and Screen Studies discipline. As a documentary filmmaker, Prof. Gilmore has an established track record of focusing on issues of history and social change, including the transition from white-ruled Rhodesia to black-ruled Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe: A Racial Revolution, 1988), the changing American family (Alone Together, 1991), a biography of one the most powerful women in 19th Century America (Soul of a Woman: The Life and Times of Mary Baker Eddy, 1994), the transformation of suburban America (Chronicle of an American Suburb, 2002) and the historic evolution of Detroit during a time of economic crisis (Men at Work: Voices from Detroit's Underground Economy 2012). Gilmore has worked for a number of media organizations, including The Christian Science Monitor in Boston and New Hampshire Public Television. Throughout his career, he also remained active in the independent film community. Gilmore holds a MA in Broadcasting and Film from the University of Iowa and a BA in theatre and political science from Kalamazoo College. In addition to his teaching, he serves as executive producer of Acadia Pictures, an independent non-fiction production company he founded in 1995, and as associate director of The Acadia Institute of Oceanography, a summer camp in marine science based in Seal Harbor, Maine.