Scholarship and Biography

A cultural historian with a special interest in Hollywood cinema, Thomas Doherty is a professor of American Studies at Brandeis University. He is an associate editor for the film magazine Cineaste and film review editor for the Journal of American History. His most recent book is Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century, from Columbia University Press 2020.

Honors

Fulbright Research Lectureship (South Korea)
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 1981 - 1982
Fulbright Fellowship (Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Studies, The Netherlands)
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 1990 - 1991
Fellow
Directors Guild of America, 1992 - 1993
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board travel grant
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 1996 - 1997
Theatre Library Association Award for "excellence in writing about film and broadcasting" ()
Theatre Library Association (United States, New York) - TLA, 2000 - 2001
Academy Film Scholar
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (United States, Beverly Hills) - AMPAS, 2003
Academy Film Scholar
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (United States, Beverly Hills) - AMPAS, 2003
Fulbright Senior Specialists Grant
University of Waikato (New Zealand, Hamilton), 2003
Fulbright Senior Specialist (Albania)
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 2006
Special Commendation for Hollywood's Censor
Boston Society of Film Critics, 2008
Edwin Smith Family Distinguished Speaker Award
Westfield Athenaeum, 2010
Fulbright Distinguished Professorship, Roosvelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg, the Netherlands
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 2018

Organizational Affiliations

Professor of American Studies, Interdepartmental Program in American Studies, Brandeis University

Education

University of Iowa
Ph.D.
University of Iowa
M.A.
Gonzaga University
B.A.