Roger Stahl (PhD, Penn State University) is Professor of Communication Studies and director of the Luminous Room Documentary Production Program at UGA.  His research broadly engages the areas of rhetoric, media, and culture, but his primary focus has been understanding propaganda as it relates to state violence, conflict, and security.  He is author of two books: Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze (Rutgers UP, 2018) traces the history of the gun-camera and examines the ways that the public has been increasingly invited to picture war through the weapon’s eye; Militainment, Inc. (Routledge, 2010) maps the military-entertainment complex. In a more public capacity, his work has been featured in such venues as NPR’s All Things Considered, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera.  He has produced a number of documentary films, including Theaters of War (2022), Through the Crosshairs (2018), Returning Fire (2011), and Militainment, Inc. (2007), all of which are currently distributed by the Media Education Foundation.