Rate My Professor Daniel Bernardi

A critical race studies scholar and documentary filmmaker, Bernardi specializes in the representation and narration of whiteness in film, television, and popular culture, blending semiotics and cultural studies. His publications include authored and edited books such as Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future (Rutgers University Press, 1998), The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 1996), Off the Page: Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence (University of California Press, 2017, co-authored), and Narrative Landmines: Islamist Extremism and the Uses of Rumor in the Struggle for Strategic Influence (Rutgers University Press, 2012). He has produced documentaries including The American War (2018, Best Documentary, Anchorage International Film Festival), The War to End All Wars… and its American Veterans (2019), and The Forgotten War: Korea 1950-1953 (2020), distributed on platforms like Kanopy, Amazon, and Alexander Street. Bernardi's honors include the University Teaching Award from the University of Arizona Honors College (2002), Fulbright Lecturing Fellowship (2009), Ford Dissertation Fellowship (1994-1995), and UC President’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1995-1997).