Amy Robinson

Horse Opera was founded in 2001 by documentary filmmaker Vanessa Warheit and historian Amy Elizabeth Robinson.

Amy Robinson holds a PhD from the Department of History at Stanford University. Her research and teaching experience focus on the social and cultural history of imperialism and globalization. She holds a bachelor's degree in social history magna cum laude from Princeton University; a master's degree in history and anthropology, with distinction, from University College in London; and a master's degree in the history of modern Britain and the British Empire from Stanford University. She also studied oral history theory and methodology at the European Union's Erasmus Institute for New Methods in History.

While at Stanford, Ms. Robinson coordinated and facilitated a faculty/graduate student workshop on comparative imperialism for the Stanford Humanities Center. She is the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant, and the Stanford Institute for International Studies' O'Bie Shultz Research/Travel grant.

Amy has contributed writing and research on international peace issues to Global Exchange, an NGO based in San Francisco. She co-founded a peace and justice committee while a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, and is currently a member of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. This is her first documentary film project.