Chris Dickon

Chris Dickon is a writer and veteran television and radio producer/​reporter/​writer with most of his previous work in public broadcasting, and current effort in book and article writing and research. His documentaries, features, reporting and interviewing have been broadcast nationally on PBS stations and on National Public Radio, and internationally on the Voice of America. Awards for his broadcast work have come from Columbia University, Ohio State University, the University of Missouri, the Virginia Association of Broadcasters, and included an Emmy from the Capital Region Chapter of NATAS.

His recent work as a media producer focuses on those traditionally at the margins of society. The documentary project “All of Us,” about community inclusion of the developmentally disabled was winner of the 2004 Media Award from the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (formerly AAMR), and media work for the Virginia Department of Corrections has included videos in support of Therapeutic Communities within the prison system, and Motivational Interviewing programs designed to prepare offenders for re-entry into society.

In 2006 – 2008 he published three photo history books with Arcadia Publishing, followed by publication with The History Press of The Enduring Journey of the USS Chesapeake. The book has won finalist standing in the USA Best Books, Indie Excellence and Hoffer Awards, and a Hoffer Da Vinci Eye award for cover design. It is distributed in the US/​UK/​Canada. His newest book, The Foreign Burial of American War Dead, traces the history and names of American war dead still buried abroad since the Revolutionary War, and the evolution of American attitudes and practices about its war dead.