Michael Van Wagenen

Michael Van Wagenen is a documentary filmmaker. He was a professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville and currently teaches at Georgia Southern University. He created the Public history certificate and concentration at GSU.

Biography Michael Scott Van Wagenen attended Brigham Young University and graduated in 1992 with his bachelor's degree. He later attended the University of Texas at Brownsville and received his master's in 1999. Wagenen attended the University of Utah, and earned his Ph.D. in U.S. History They have also been shown at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He also wrote the book Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War which was published in 2012. He also collaborated on the book Between Pulpit and Pew: The Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore.

Wagnenen was also a professor of history at the University of Texas in Brownsville, Texas.

He has received grants from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. He also received a grant from 2010 to 2012 from the National Park Service. Selected filmography

Telling Our Story Arte y Color Vatos Locos The History of the 38th Street Gang Folk Healing Practices in the Latino Immigrant Community Beauty Before Me North Africa 1944 (1990) Der Vetter (1991) The Candy Bomber (1992) The Attack on Fort Stevens (1993) Utah on the Home Front (1993) Navajo Weavers (1994) Fedora (1994) The Magic Bracelet (1994) Big Foot: The Search For Sasquatch (1994) Mundo Milagroso (1995) Piana (1996) Spirit Doctors (1996) The History of Yellowstone Park (1997) Yellowstone: America's Eden (1997) A Day With Sheriff Joe (1997) Low and Slow (1997) Grandma Vera's Tortillas (1999)