Brigid Maher

Brigid Maher is an associate professor in the School of Communication at American University where she is the Associate Division Director for the Film and Media Arts Division and Program Director for Digital Media Skills Graduate Certificate. She is also a film and new media-maker and her work is shown internationally in conferences and festivals.

Brigid Maher is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. She is a filmmaker and writer who heads the Emerging Media concentration in SOC’s Film and Media Arts Division. Her scholarly writing focuses on the interplay between traditional film and new media theories. Her award-winning narrative and documentary films have shown in festivals in the U.S. and abroad.

Her latest documentary, Veiled Voices, focuses on the phenomenon of Muslim women religious leaders in Islam. Veiled Voices is distributed by Typecast Releasing in the United States and has screened on over 150 public television stations and three national networks. Al Jazeera Network recently acquired the film for broadcast in the Middle East and North Africa. The film has additional international distribution through TVF International and has screened in numerous international festivals in the United States and abroad.

Maher won a Fulbright Senior Award to teach broadcast media in Lebanon in the spring of 2005. She teaches digital media and editing courses for SOC.

Brigid’s degrees include a BA in Philosophy/International Affairs with a minor in Cinema Studies from Colorado College; and a MFA in Radio/Television/Film Department, Northwestern University.