Historian Steven Alan Channing (1940- ), a 1977 to 1978 U.S. Fulbright-Hays Scholar to Italy, earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the 1980s, he began work in documentary film and educational television. He taught at Stanford, Duke, and the University of Kentucky and in Genoa, Italy. He also worked as a research fellow at Johns Hopkins. He founded Video Dialog Inc. He has produced award-winning films such as America’s 400th Anniversary, narrated by Andy Griffith, Loyalty on Trial, a film about Constitutional history, Alamance, February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four, Durham: A Self-Portrait, and Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina. The Fulbright Experience, a commemorative 30-minute film, celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the Fulbright Program in 1986. It was co-produced by the University of Arkansas and Channing/Wise Productions. The executive producer was Hoyt Purvis, the director of the Fulbright Institute of International Relations.