Jonathan Sterne

Jonathan Sterne

Fellow: Awarded 2024
Field of Study: Film, Video, New Media

Competition: US & Canada

Jonathan Sterne is the James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology and Professor of Communication Studies at McGill University. He is author of three award-winning monographs: The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (2003); MP3: The Meaning of a Format (2012); and Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment (2021), as well as dozens of journal articles and book chapters on sound, media, culture, technology, and disability. His work has been translated into at least eight languages and he is one of the animating figures for the interdisciplinary field of sound studies. In addition to his Guggenheim Fellowship, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the International Communication Association. He has held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, The Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science at Stanford, Microsoft Research New England, and the University of Southern California. He has also won teaching awards at each university where he’s taught for more than a term. Sterne earned a PhD in Communications and Criticism and Interpretive Theory from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA summa cum laude in humanities from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

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