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In 1974 she began working for CBS News as a producer/director of documentaries for the network. Her documentaries 1968, American Dream, American Nightmare,[1]The Cowboy, the Craftsman, and the Ballerina, and Juilliard and Beyond: A Life in Music, Once in Lifetime won five Emmys, a DuPont Citation, a George Foster Peabody Award,[2] a Writers Guild Award, medals from New York and Chicago film festivals, and a special invitation to the Edinburgh Film Festival.
From 1985 to 1987 she was first program manager for CUNY TV, the cable television station for the City University of New York and subsequently she was a member of the Media Faculty of the Borough of Manhattan Community College. In 1989, she founded and directed the Campus Programming Service designed to bring foreign programming to university television stations for which she received a Rockefeller Grant.
In 1999, she was the co-author with her husband, Karl E. Meyer, of Tournament of Shadows: the Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia.[3] It was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times[4] and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize[5] for "the world's best non-fiction book in English that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global issues." It was republished with a new introduction in 2006 by Basic Books.
Kingmakers: the Invention of the Modern Middle East appeared in 2008. Written together with her husband, it was chosen as one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post.[7] Excerpts appeared in Harper's Magazine and the World Policy Journal. Her expanded chapter on Gertrude Bell was selected to appear in Ultimate Adventures with Britannia.[8]
Meyer and Brysac's book entitled Pax Ethnica: Where and Why Diversity Succeeds received support from the Gould, Carnegie, and Pulitzer Foundations.[9] I It was a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize.
The China Collectors: America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures (2014) named one of the Washington Post's Books of the Year.
Pablo Picasso: Once in a Lifetime with the Museum of Modern Art, CBS, 1981.
The Cowboy, the Craftsman and the Ballerina, CBS, 1981.
Juilliard: a Life in Music, CBS, 1982
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1999: Meyer, Karl E. and Shareen Blair Brysac. Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint
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This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article s lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article January 2014 This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Shareen Blair Brysac news newspapers books scholar JSTOR February 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message Shareen Blair Brysac is an author of non fiction books and a former dancer television producer director writer Shareen Blair BrysacNotable awardsFive Emmys a DuPont Citation a George Foster Peabody Award a Writers Guild Award medals from New York and Chicago film festivals SpouseKarl E Meyer Contents 1 Biography 2 Writing 3 Television and lecture appearances 4 Filmography 5 Bibliography 6 References 7 External linksBiography EditBrysac was born in Denver Colorado and graduated from Barnard College Columbia University While at Barnard she attended the Juilliard School and danced as a member of the Jose Limon and Merce Cunningham Companies After her graduation she also appeared with the Paul Taylor Dance Company in Europe and with the New York City Opera ballet In 1974 she began working for CBS News as a producer director of documentaries for the network Her documentaries 1968 American Dream American Nightmare 1 The Cowboy the Craftsman and the Ballerina and Juilliard and Beyond A Life in Music Once in Lifetime won five Emmys a DuPont Citation a George Foster Peabody Award 2 a Writers Guild Award medals from New York and Chicago film festivals and a special invitation to the Edinburgh Film Festival From 1985 to 1987 she was first program manager for CUNY TV the cable television station for the City University of New York and subsequently she was a member of the Media Faculty of the Borough of Manhattan Community College In 1989 she founded and directed the Campus Programming Service designed to bring foreign programming to university television stations for which she received a Rockefeller Grant Brysac is a past member of the American Guild of Musical Artists the Directors Guild the Writers Guild the Teacher s Union and Women in Film She is currently a member of the Authors Guild Writing EditIn 1999 she was the co author with her husband Karl E Meyer of Tournament of Shadows the Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia 3 It was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times 4 and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize 5 for the world s best non fiction book in English that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global issues It was republished with a new introduction in 2006 by Basic Books Her biography Resisting Hitler Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Biography Book of the Year 6 and the German edition of the book published by Scherz Verlag was selected as one of the best books of the year by German reviewers Kingmakers the Invention of the Modern Middle East appeared in 2008 Written together with her husband it was chosen as one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post 7 Excerpts appeared in Harper s Magazine and the World Policy Journal Her expanded chapter on Gertrude Bell was selected to appear in Ultimate Adventures with Britannia 8 Meyer and Brysac s book entitled Pax Ethnica Where and Why Diversity Succeeds received support from the Gould Carnegie and Pulitzer Foundations 9 I It was a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize The China Collectors America s Century Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures 2014 named one of the Washington Post s Books of the Year Brysac has also been a contributing editor to Archaeology magazine and a frequent contributor to Military History Quarterly Her articles have also appeared in The New York Times The Herald Tribune The Washington Post The World Policy Journal and The Nation During the fall term Michaelmas 2012 she was in residence as a senior associate member of St Antony s College Oxford Television and lecture appearances EditBrysac s television appearances include Dance in America PBS WISC WNYC CNN and three hours on C SPAN s Book Talk 10 11 12 13 She has lectured at universities and local libraries including the National Archives the Library of Congress the British Museum the Newark Museum the Explorer s Club the Royal Asiatic Society London Gedenkstatte Deutscher Widerstand Berlin Maschinenbau Essen the National Arts Club English Speaker s Union Prologue Clubs Florida German Information Center New York Asia Society Houston Boston s Museum of Fine Arts and the German Cultural Foundation Philadelphia Filmography EditA Conversation with Eric Sevareid CBS 1977 1968 CBS 1978 American Dream American Nightmare CBS 1979 Pablo Picasso Once in a Lifetime with the Museum of Modern Art CBS 1981 The Cowboy the Craftsman and the Ballerina CBS 1981 Juilliard a Life in Music CBS 1982Bibliography Edit1999 Meyer Karl E and Shareen Blair Brysac Tournament of Shadows The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia Washington D C Counterpoint 2000 Brysac Shareen Blair Resisting Hitler Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra New York Oxford University Press 2007 Meyer Karl E and Shareen Blair Brysac Kingmakers the Invention of the Modern Middle East New York Norton 2012 Meyer Karl E and Shareen Blair Brysac Pax Ethnica Where and How Diversity Succeeds New York PublicAffairs 2014 Meyer Karl E and Shareen Blair Brysac The China Collectors America s Century Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures New York Palgrave MacmillanReferences Edit CBS News Special American Dream American Nightmare the Seventies Part 1 CBS 1979 Juilliard and Beyond A life in Music Archived from the original on 2012 03 30 Retrieved 2011 08 21 Peabody awards 1982 Karl E Meyer Shareen Blair Brysac Counterpoint 1999 Notable Books The New York Times Dec 3 2000 Nominees Archived 2012 03 25 at the Wayback Machine Lionel Gelber Prize 2000 Finalists Selected in Nine Categories for The Times Book Prizes Los Angeles Times Mar 9 2001 Best books of 2008 The Washington Post Dec 7 2008 Wm Roger Louis editor Ultimate Adventures with Britannia Gertrude Bell and the Creation of Iraq pp 283 298 Tauris 2009 India The Kerala Model blog for the Pulitzer Center Dec 8 2009 Kingmakers The Invention of the Modern Middle East Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs C SPAN Oc 29 2008 Kingmakers The Invention of the Modern Middle East Archived 2011 10 02 at the Wayback Machine Forum Network Oct 28 2008 Resisting Hitler National Archives and Records Administration C SPAN Jan 9 2001 Tournament of Shadows Library of Congress Center for the Book C SPAN Nov 2 1999 External links EditAuthor s website Shareen Blair Brysac at IMDb Biographies The Irish Times Feb 10 2000 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Shareen Blair Brysac amp oldid 1158416354, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
