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Regina Marchi Author

Lynn Schofield Clark is Professor and Chair of the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies and Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver. She is author of The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age (2013) and From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media and the Supernatural (2005) and is co-author of Media, Home and Family (2004). She has received numerous awards for her writing and her community engaged research, and has held affiliations with the University of Copenhagen and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Her research has been cited in the New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and in other national and international media venues. She has worked with young people as a teacher, mentor, and researcher for more than twenty years. Regina Marchi is Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Before entering academia, she worked as a journalist, community organizer and teacher. Her first book, Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon (2009), won the 2010 national James W. Carey Award for Media Research and an International Latino Book Award in the category of 'Best history/political book'. She has been recognized with numerous research and teaching awards and has worked with youth in various capacities for more than twenty years.