Henry Jenkins

Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is one of the principal investigators for The Education Arcade, a consortium of educators and business leaders working to promote the educational use of computer and video games. He is the principal investigator of Project nml (New Media Literacies), funded by the John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation to promote the social skills and cultural competencies required to insure that every young person is able to fully participate in the new media landscape. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Governor's Board of the World Economic Forum and has served on the advisory board of the Free Expression Network. Jenkins has a M.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.