Joanne Hershfield
Joanne Hershfield is an author, filmmaker, and professor. Her expertise includes gender, feminism, and film in the United States and Mexico. Biography. Hershfield was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1950. She received her MA in documentary film production at Stanford University and her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in 1993, in radio, television, and film. Hershfield is currently professor emerita within the Women's and Gender Studies department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; she has previously worked as an assistant professor in the department of Communication Studies. She has been  employed at the university since 1994. Hershfield also participated as a U.S. Scholar with the Telling Our Stories of Home conference in 2016. A portion of her upcoming film on Benevolence Farm, a transitional housing project for formerly incarcerated women, was screened at the conference. Filmography. Hershfield is a producer, director, and editor of documentaries with New Day Films. Her past works include: