Brian Jacobson

comparative media studies, MIT

Brian R. Jacobson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and a member of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate program. He is a graduate of the Master's program in Comparative Media Studies (CMS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Appalachian State University. Brian is a 2008-2009 Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Scholar. In 2007 he was a member of the Visual Culture research field of the Social Science Research Council's inaugural Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship.