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The Drs. John S. & Betty J. Schuchman Deaf Documentary Center educates students in the documentary arts and shines a light on significant historical issues and endangered cultural knowledge specific to deaf people.

Overview

At the Drs. John S. & Betty J. Schuchman Deaf Documentary Center, our mission is to educate people about significant historical issues and endangered cultural knowledge specific to deaf people, using the documentary arts.

We do this by discovering deaf-specific topics through fieldwork and historic research, documenting them through film, photography, and narrative writing, and sharing them through film screenings, lectures, discussions, exhibitions, articles, multimedia website presentations, and online bilingual (American Sign Language/English) publications.

We also provide educational opportunities in the documentary process for students and collaborate with them in our work. Our goal is to shed light on deaf people’s experiences and to increase understanding and appreciation for their culture and history.

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Support the Schuchman Deaf Documentary Center
Your support for the Drs. John S. & Betty J. Schuchman Deaf Documentary Center will help create learning opportunities for Gallaudet students and advance the creation of films and exhibitions about deaf life. Gifts of any amount are sincerely appreciated.

Programs

Deaf NYC
Deaf New York City is a thrilling project that takes you on a journey through time, exploring the evolution of Deaf spaces in one of the most exciting cities in the world. Through meticulous research spanning years, the project presents a historical account of the...
Deaf Difference + Space Survival
In the early 1960s a joint research project hosted by the U.S. Department of the Navy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sought out deaf men from Gallaudet University to participate in experiments on balance, motion sickness, and weightlessness. Eleven men aged 25...
Eugenics and the American Experience
The leading proponent of sterilization in the United States was Harry Hamilton Laughlin, superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, N.Y. Those states that adopted sterilization laws usually modeled them after Laughlin's conceptual framework. Laughlin's list...

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Meet the Team

Brian Greenwald

Director

Brenna Smith

Graduate Research Assistant

Zilvinas Paludnevicius

Lead Producer

Jannelle Legg

Director

Brianna DiGiovanni

Project Coordinator

Contact Us

Schuchman Deaf Documentary Center

SLCC 1301

(202) 250-2905

(202) 651-5635

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