Janet Walker is Professor of Film and Media Studies and an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Feminist Studies. She received a UC Santa Barbara Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001. Walker is the recipient of grants from the California Council for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and of a Distinguished Teaching Award from UCSB in 2001. With research specializations including documentary film and media, trauma and memory studies, and media and environment, Walker is author or editor of five books and numerous published essays.