Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Jen Heuson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Her research interests include sound and sensory ethnography, heritage studies, American West tourism, critical phenomenology, and experimental filmmaking. Her award-winning films have screened internationally, and she has published works in Sensate, Contemporary Music Review, and Experimental Film and Anthropology (Berg 2014). Jen’s dissertation examines the production of frontier aurality at heritage sites and events in South Dakota’s Black Hills. Her dissertation research has been funded by The Wenner-Gren Foundation, NYU’s Council for Media and Culture, and a LeBoff Research Grant. She holds an MA in Film and Television Studies and an MA in Philosophy and Cultural Analysis, both from the University of Amsterdam, and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Northern Colorado.