Buzz Alexander is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan as well as founder and member of the ground-breaking Prison Creative Arts Project. He has received the Amoco Good Teaching Award, the University of Michigan Regents' Award for Distinguished Public Service, and the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award. In 2005, he received the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Council for the Advancement and Support of Education Professor of the Year Award. His books include Film on the Left:American Documentary Film from 1931-1942 (Princeton University Press, 1981), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in History and was the winner of the Theatre Library Association Award for best film book of 1981. His book about PCAP, Is William Martinez Not Our Brother?, will be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2010.
