Gregg Mitman

Trained in ecology, environmental history, and the history of science and medicine, Gregg Mitman is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and teacher, whose work explores the changing relationships between people and environments over time. Mitman holds a distinguished research chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among others, and has spent the past decade investigating the history of American biomedical research in Liberia. Mitman is founder and director of Madison’s popular environmental film festival, Tales from Planet Earth, and has taught environmental film production with award-winning filmmakers including Judith Helfand, Alex Rivera, and Sarita Siegel. Mitman was Executive Producer on Fire Burn Babylon, which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary, Freestyle Life Film Festival 2012; Bronze Palm Award, Mexico International Film Festival 2010; and Honorable Mention at the COMMFFEST MADA Awards, Toronto 2011. The trailer for Mitman’s new film A Film Never Made won the 2014 International FOCAL Award for the best use of archival in a short production.