james cullingham ph.d (born march 5, 194) is an award winning documentary filmmaker, historian and journalist. he is currently an instructor at the chanie wenjack school for indigenous studies at trent university. in nogojiwanong - peterborough ontario, canada. he will be visiting fellow at trent’s peter gzowski college in winter term 2020. he was a professor of journalism and english and liberal studies at seneca college (seneca@york) in toronto from 2002 - 2018. cullingham was coordinator of the journalism programme at seneca 2004 - 2011.