Media Jurors
Denise K. Cummings, Ph.D.
Department of Critical Media and Cultural Studies
Rollins College (Florida)
Dr. Cummings's teaching and research interests are situated at the intersection of critical cinema studies, cultural studies, and critical theory. In her work in the fields of visual/popular culture and American Indian Studies, she addresses the social, economic, cultural, historical, and political dimensions of American material culture, increasingly locating American culture and events within an international dynamic. Her recent publications include Seeing Red, Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film (Michigan State University Press, 2013); “Florida: The Mediated State,” a special issue of Florida Historical Quarterly (2012); and Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art (Michigan State University Press 2011).
Joana Owens, Ph.D.
Department of Humanities
Jacksonville University, (Florida)
Dr. Owens teaches courses that cover a range of topics relating to American and Western European humanities from the seventeenth century to the present. Her research and teaching interests include film and the humanities, multiculturalism, and service learning in the humanities. She has served on the board of the Humanities Education and Research Association and has made a number of presentations at HERA’s annual conferences. Her recent publications include “Service-Learning in the Humanities,” a special issue of the journal Interdisciplinary Humanities (2012) and a review of Humanities Across the Arts by Stephen Husarik in Interdisciplinary Humanities (2014).
Andrew R. Schrock, MA, ABD.
Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
University of Southern California
Mr. Schrock is doctoral student at the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. His primary research interests are mobile platforms, mobile communication, and collectives/communities. He serves as research assistant to Danah Boyd and Assistant Director of the Annenberg Program on Online Communities. He is currently a member of the USC Innovation lab and Henry Jenkins' Civic Paths project. His dissertation, chaired by François Bar, applies micro-sociological theory to practices on locative and mobile social networks (LMSNs).
Jim Tuten, Ph.D.
Department of History
Juniata College (Pennsylvania)
Dr. Tuten specializes in the history of the southern United States. His teaching interests include the Civil War and Reconstruction, the New South, and the history of food. His research on Atlantic Coast rice culture from the Civil War until the industry collapsed in the 1920s culminated in the book Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the Rice Kingdom (USC Press) in 2010. In addition, he has published on southern planters’ affinity for Madeira wine, and on poor relief in Alabama prior to the New Deal.
Department of Critical Media and Cultural Studies
Rollins College (Florida)
Dr. Cummings's teaching and research interests are situated at the intersection of critical cinema studies, cultural studies, and critical theory. In her work in the fields of visual/popular culture and American Indian Studies, she addresses the social, economic, cultural, historical, and political dimensions of American material culture, increasingly locating American culture and events within an international dynamic. Her recent publications include Seeing Red, Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film (Michigan State University Press, 2013); “Florida: The Mediated State,” a special issue of Florida Historical Quarterly (2012); and Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art (Michigan State University Press 2011).
Joana Owens, Ph.D.
Department of Humanities
Jacksonville University, (Florida)
Dr. Owens teaches courses that cover a range of topics relating to American and Western European humanities from the seventeenth century to the present. Her research and teaching interests include film and the humanities, multiculturalism, and service learning in the humanities. She has served on the board of the Humanities Education and Research Association and has made a number of presentations at HERA’s annual conferences. Her recent publications include “Service-Learning in the Humanities,” a special issue of the journal Interdisciplinary Humanities (2012) and a review of Humanities Across the Arts by Stephen Husarik in Interdisciplinary Humanities (2014).
Andrew R. Schrock, MA, ABD.
Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
University of Southern California
Mr. Schrock is doctoral student at the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. His primary research interests are mobile platforms, mobile communication, and collectives/communities. He serves as research assistant to Danah Boyd and Assistant Director of the Annenberg Program on Online Communities. He is currently a member of the USC Innovation lab and Henry Jenkins' Civic Paths project. His dissertation, chaired by François Bar, applies micro-sociological theory to practices on locative and mobile social networks (LMSNs).
Jim Tuten, Ph.D.
Department of History
Juniata College (Pennsylvania)
Dr. Tuten specializes in the history of the southern United States. His teaching interests include the Civil War and Reconstruction, the New South, and the history of food. His research on Atlantic Coast rice culture from the Civil War until the industry collapsed in the 1920s culminated in the book Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the Rice Kingdom (USC Press) in 2010. In addition, he has published on southern planters’ affinity for Madeira wine, and on poor relief in Alabama prior to the New Deal.