Paul Stekler
Paul Stekler's documentary work about American politics and society, films that have
won multiple Emmys, duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards, and George Foster Peabody
Awards, include: Last Man Standing (broadcast on PBS's P.O.V. series). George
Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (winner of an Emmy and the Special Jury Prize at the
Sundance Film Festival); Vote for Me: Politics in America, a four-hour documentary
series about grassroots electoral politics (winner of an Emmy, a George Foster Peabody
Award and a duPont-Columbia Journalism Award); and two segments of the Eyes on the
Prize II series on the history of civil rights. Dr. Stekler has a doctorate in Government
from Harvard University, has written about Southern politics, and was a political
consultant in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has taught at the University of Texas'
nationally recognized RTF film program since 1997
(http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/stekler). He hosts a weekly statewide Texas PBS series,
SPECIAL SESSION, on state politics and the legislature. Stekler is also the Director of
Research of the LBJ School of Public Affairs' Center for Politics and Governance.