M.F.A. in Radio-Television-Film Temple University,1991) M.A. in Anthropology University of Arizona, 1987) B.A. in English and French University of Wyoming, 1981, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) Beverly Seckinger is Professor in the School of Theatre, Film Television and former Interim Director 2008-2010) and Associate Director 2004-2008) of the School of Media Arts. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Human Rights Practice graduate program, is a founding member of the UA Institute for LGBT Studies, and since 1993 has directed the annual Lesbian Looks Film Series. Her film Hippie Family Values, a feature-length documentary about three generations at a back-to-the-land community in rural New Mexico, won the Grand Festival Award for Documentary at the Berkeley Film Festival, the Outstanding Project Award for 2019 from the Communal Studies Association, and the Outstanding Documentary Award from the University Film Video Association. The film continues to screen in community and campus venues across the country, and is distributed to educational institutions by New Day Films. Seckinger’s previous films have been screened on PBS, at international festivals in the US, Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America, and non-theatrically throughout the U.S. Her 2004 diary/documentary Laramie Inside Out, about the aftermath of Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder in her hometown community, had its U.S. broadcast premiere on PBS in June 2007, and is distributed by New Day Films, Filmoption/Canada, and American Public Television. It has been screened at dozens of universities, conferences and community events across the country, and purchased for the permanent collections of over 400 colleges and universities.