Dr. Lou Buttino
Department of Communication Studies

The University of North Carolina at Wilmington


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Lou Buttino, Vita Summary

Three books, twenty documentary projects, 55 articles and feature stories, 13 teaching and academic scholarship awards, 21 academic grants, 28 university lectures (Harvard, Brown and Syracuse among others), the development of 41 courses across three disciplines: Political Science, Communication Studies and Film Studies.

Twenty-four community speeches and lectures, 49 newspaper, radio and television interviews, 8 reprints in newspapers, magazines, and a college text that also included writers James Baldwin, Annie Dillard and Alice Walker. Fourteen state, national or international writing and documentary awards. Three screenplay writing awards. The inauguration of a Lou Buttino Manuscript & Film Collection housed at William M. Randall Library, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 1999. Award for Faculty Scholarship, 1999.

Recently served as a script consultant and on-air interviewee for the ESPN documentary special: "Fighting the Mob: The Story of Carmen Basilio." At work on, with the Chancellor of UNCW, hour-long documentary for PBS on Smart Growth. Also at work on a novel tentatively titled, When All Is Sad and Done--and a nonfiction work titled, Children of Assassinations.