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Juli Hinds

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., mass communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • M.S., life sciences communcation, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • B.A., communcation arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Credentials

Academic

  • Professor of liberal arts, Fall 2022–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Program director, 2020–22
    Assistant professor, 2016–22, Medaille College, Buffalo, NY
    Created courses covering film, criticism, culture/sports, digital media, writing, and storytelling. Advised and led project for the creation of WMCB and WCTV studios, student-run learning labs for podcasts and content creation in audio and visual production. Initiated and advised Townsquare Media Buffalo/Internship program.
  • Senior adjunct professor, 2011–13, Edgewood College, Madison, WI
    Implemented "Projecting Girlhood" mentoring joint film project with Edgewood College and Hamilton Middle school, Madison, WI.
  • Lecturer, 2010–16, Madison Area Technical College (MATC), Madison, WI
  • Teaching assistant, 2006–10, Life Sciences Communication UW-Madison, Madison, WI

Professional

  • On-air talent for WMSX, WMGN FM, WJMK FM, WOKY AM, WMLV FM, Q106 FM
  • Reporter/host for WISC-TV; WMTV; "Extra News," Warner Brothers Studios, Los Angeles
  • On-air host for "The Juli Hinds Show," WISC-TV; "Nashville Now," TNN-TV; "Marquee Theatre," Wisconsin Public Television-TV; "In Wisconsin," Wisconsin Public Television; and The VoiceBox

Advisor/consultant/coach

  • Consultant, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
  • Advisor, Medaille Sabbatical Committee
  • Consultant, Townsquare Media
  • Advisor, Medaille Social Media Task Force
  • Educator, Educational Technology Committee
  • Advisor/coach, WBBZ Buffalo Internships

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Professor of the Year Award, Medaille College, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021
  • Travel grant, CPSI (Creative Problem-Solving Institute) Buffalo, NY, 2019
  • Teacher of the Year, Madison Area Technical College, 2013 and 2014
  • Teacher of the Year, Edgewood College, 2011 and 2012
  • Culture History and Environmental (CHE) Research Grant, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
  • International Communication Teaching Award (ICA), New York, NY, 2007
  • Jean Fewster Communications Scholarship Travel Grant, UW-Madison, 2005

Professional radio awards

  • Buffalo Broadcasters Award
  • Athena Award
  • Best of Madison, Madison Magazine
  • Best of Madison, Isthmus News
  • Women in Communication Award
  • Radio Broadcasting Excellence Award, Midwest

Organizations

  • Society for Film and Media Studies, Culture, History, and the Environment (CHE)
  • Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
  • International Communication Association (ICA)
  • Midwest American Broadcasters
  • Nelson Institute
  • Society Women in Communications

Publications and presentations

Selected conference presentations

  • "Engaged Pedagogy" and "Crafting Learning Spaces that Foster Diversity and Innovative Learning for the Educator and the Student.," presented Summer 2021.
  • "Transgressive Engaged Pedagogy through Orange is the New Black" and "Sound Studies, Hearing Women's Voices?" Presented at OW-Madison World Summit, Women, Gender and Well Being, April 14–16, 2016.
  • "Such a Calamity, Troubling Gender in the Hollywood Western," presented at Symposium, Edgewood College, 2015.
  • "Return to the Garden, Eco-Criticism and the Film Western during the Early Post-World War II Era," presented at Scholars Symposium Edgewood College, 2014.
  • "Media Literacy, Persuasion and the Engaged Classroom," presented at Edgewood College Symposium on Universal Learning, 2014.
  • "Scriptwriting, Sound Studies and Environmental Thought," presented at Culture, History and Environmentalism (CHE) Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Feb. 2014.
  • "Hearing Nature; Eco-Criticism in the film Witness," presented at School of Journalism, University Wisconsin-Madison, March 2014.
  • "Projecting Nature: The Hollywood Western in Post-World War II America, an Eco-critical Review," presented at Culture, History and Environmentalism Symposium, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2012.
  • "Through an Environmental Lens: The Hollywood Western, Not Just a Landscape," presented at CHE Symposium, Edgewood College, 2011.
  • "Such a Calamity, Gender in the Hollywood Western," presented at School of Journalism, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 2010.
  • "Eco-heroines, from Erin Brockovich to North Country, Landscape and the Hick," presented at Culture, History and Environmentalism Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009.
  • "Third-person Effect and Political Attribution," presented at Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research Conference, Chicago, 2007.
  • "Do Media Promote Learned Helplessness in the Obese?" Presented at Midwest Association for Public
  • Opinion Research Conference, Chicago, 2005.