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Joan Bieder

Sr. Lecturer
Phone: 510-642-4798
Email: Joan Bieder

TEACHING Joan Bieder teaches core courses in television reporting and producing. Before coming to Berkeley, she taught print and broadcast journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York and spent a decade as a producer at ABC-TV Network News. In her Introductory and Advanced Television sequence at Berkeley, students learn the basic skills of reporting, producing, shooting, editing and writing for non-fiction television. She also teaches the two-semester Long Form Television course where second year students produce their Masters project required for graduation as well as a freshman seminar on Aspects of Television News. Over the past few years graduate students in these classes have traveled widely: to Afghanistan, Mexico, France, New Zealand, China, India, Ramallah, Ecuador, Cuba, Bolivia, Guatemala, Burma, Sierre Leone, Italy and Ghana; as well as throughout the United States to report and shoot their stories.

RESEARCH Joan Bieder spent several summers working as a consultant to television news companies in Singapore where she trained reporters and producers. In Singapore she began an historical study of a minority community that resulted in a book, The Jews of Singapore, published by Suntree Media in November 2007. The Jews of Singapore traces the roots of Singapore Jewry from is biblical Baghdadi Sephardic origins to its Singapore beginnings around 1830 to the present. Her research was supported by grants from UC Berkeley and the Jacob Ballas Estate. She has produced a video on Singapore Jewry and presented numerous papers on the topic at academic conferences and Jewish Book Fairs in the United States, Canada, Israel and Singapore. She will present papers entitled: "A Century of Changing Identities: Jewish Women of Singapore" at the Western Jewish Studies Conference in Denver in April 2009 and at the 15th Annual Jewish Studies Congress in Jerusalem in August 2009.

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