James Cullingham

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About James Cullingham

James Cullingham is an educator, award winning documentary filmmaker, a widely published writer and seasoned national broadcaster. He was a journalism professor at Seneca College in Toronto 2002 - 2018 and has served as an executive producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). His documentaries concerning social justice, politics, history and popular culture have been screened around the world. Cullingham has been published by Canada’s leading newspapers and magazines. Cullingham was born in Toronto in 1954. He grew up there, in Florida and Switzerland. He is fluent in French and has a working knowledge of Spanish. He is an accomplished wilderness canoeist and avid hiker. He received his doctorate in history from Toronto’s York University in 2014. His dissertation in comparative intellectual history is entitled Scars of Empire: A Juxtaposition of Duncan Campbell Scott and Jacques Soustelle. His most recent film In Search of Blind Joe Death – The Saga of John Fahey about the American guitarist, composer, author and provocateur has been screened in 15 countries and broadcast by BBC and TV networks in Canada and the United States.