David Culbert was John L. Loos Professor of History, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA; formerly, Assistant Professor of History at Yale. He received his B.A and his B.Mus. from Oberlin College. He was a former IAMHIST president, and emeritus editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. He has published many books, including News for Everyman (Greenwood, 1976); Mission to Moscow (U. of Wisconsin, 1980); Film and Propaganda in America (5 vols., Greenwood, 1990-1993); with John Chambers, World War II, Film, and History (Oxford, 1996); with Nicholas Cull and David Welch, Propaganda and Mass Persuasion (ABC-Clio, 2003); and translator (plus foreword) of Leni Riefenstahl’s Behind the Scenes of the National Party Convention Film (IHF, 2010). He was a Fellow at the Wilson Center, Washington, DC; the National Humanities Institute, Yale; a Kellogg National Fellow; and a Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and is listed in Who’s Who in the World. He served as a consultant for many television documentaries, Director of Historical Research for Ken Burns’s Huey Long, and consultant for Ray Mueller’s Leni Riefenstahl film. He received three TAF Outstanding Teaching Awards from LSU’s Honors. David’s obituary can be viewed here: http://iamhist.net/2017/05/missed-david-h-culbert-1943-2017/
David Ellwood was formerly associate professor of contemporary international history 
at the University of Bologna (until November 2012); has served as president of the International Association for Media and History (1996-2002); Ph.D., Italian studies, University of Reading
Publications
The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century (Oxford University Press, 2012) (Italian edition, Carocci Editore, 2012) (second edition 2016); The Movies as History: Visions of the 20th Century, editor (Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000); Hollywood in Europe: experiences of a cultural hegemony (VU University Press, 1994); Rebuilding Europe: The U.S. and the Reconstruction of Western Europe (Pearson Longman Publishing, 1992) (Italian edition, Il Mulino 1996); Hollywood in Europa: industria, politica, pubblico del cinema 1945-1960¸ with G. Brunetta (Casa Usher, 1991); Italy 1943-45: The Politics of Liberation (Leicester University Press, 1985). Frequent contributor of articles and reviews to academic journals, policy forums and news outlets.
Karsten Fledelius is an Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies at The Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen. His research focuses upon Central and East European film culture, Media as part of conflicts in Former Yugoslavia, Eastern and Central European responses to the EU and Europeanisation, Religion and European culture and politics, with particular reference to the Balkans, Turkey, Russia, the Ukraine and the Caucausus region, Islam and Europe with particular reference to the question of secularisation, democracy and culture, Legacies of empire in contemporary Europe (Ottoman Turkey, Austria-Hungary). Karsten was the first IAMHIST Secretary General from 1977 to 1979 and served as IAMHIST President from 1979 to 1985. He served on the council as a past-president.
Christine Whittaker, a former IAMHIST President, graduated from the University of 
Leeds with a degree in Modern Languages and joined the BBC’s World Service. After a year she moved to television where she became a researcher on documentary films, eventually finding people and archive footage for historical documentaries. The archive took over, she began to specialise and was responsible for the archive on many award-winning series, such as All Our Working Lives, Out of the Doll’s House, An Ocean Apart, Nippon, Pandora’s Box. She was the Archive Producer on the 26-part series People’s Century, worked as an Archive Consultant on numerous projects for television and cinema, and has lectured and conducted workshops on the use of archive. She was twice the recipient of the BFI’s Archival Achievement Award and received Focal International’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. She was the first IAMHIST President to come from a television, rather than an academic background and continues to encourage and enjoy debate within the organisation.
