Lynn Schofield Clark Ph. D.
is Assistant Research Professor on the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado. She is Director of theTeens and the New Media @ Home research project, which focuses on issues of the access, use, and meaning of new media technologies among low-income communities, with special attention to young people.   A former television producer and marketing professional who has spent years as a volunteer with young people, Clark is author of "From Angels to Aliens: Teens, the Media, and Beliefs in the Supernatural" (forthcoming in Fall 2003) and co-editor of "Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Readings on Media, Religion and Culture" (Columbia University Press, forthcoming in 2001).  She was a 1997-98 Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellow and a 1998 nominee to the Harvard Society of Fellows, and currently serves as the Secretary to the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association. She has published numerous articles and book chapters, and her research has been cited in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Hollywood Reporter, and BBC Radio.
USA

Mary Elizabeth Hess Ph. D.
is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Luther Seminary, an ELCA seminary in St. Paul, MN. She is a Roman Catholic layperson whose research focuses on the challenges posed to religious education within media culture contexts. She is a member of the executive committee of the Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education, and on the editorial board of the journal Religious Education. Her recent publications include: “Practicing attention in media culture,” in Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture, edited by Jolyon Mitchell and Sophia Marriage, T&T Clark/Continuum, 2003; “Marriage on TV,” Word&World,
Vol. XXIII, No. 1, Winter 2003; and “Rich treasure in jars of clay,” in The Conviction of Things Not Seen: Worship and Ministry in the 21st Century, edited by Todd E. Johnson, Brazos Press, 2002. She also contributes regularly to various journals, and she maintains a weblog and website at: www.luthersem.edu/mhess.
USA

Stewart Hoover Ph. D.
is Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado, USA. He is Adjoint Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and in the Program in American Studies. He was the Director of the Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture held January 11-14, 1996 which was the second international conference on the topic and the first public one. The conference attracted 220 participants and has been called a major watershed in the development of scholarship in the field. His books include Mass Media Religion: The Social Sources of the Electronic Church, 1988, Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture co-editor with Knut Lundby, 1997, and the forthcoming Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse.

Peter Horsfield Ph.D., Chair of the Fellowship Committee
teaches and is the manager of research projects within the MA program at the School of Applied Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has published widely in the area of Christian uses of media and the social and theological impact of media developments. His earlier work, Religious Television: The American Experience, published in 1984, is recognised as one of the early classics in studies on televangelism. From 1987-1996 he was Dean of the Uniting Church Theological Hall and Lecturer in Practical Theology in the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne. From 1997-1999 he headed the Electronic Culture Research Project at the Commission for Mission of the Uniting Church in Victoria. He was the founding editor of the national journal Australian Ministry for five years and has been chair of the board of the Christian Television Association in Victoria. In 1987 he established and continues to moderate the email discussion list on Media, Culture and Religious Faith.
Australia

Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu Ph.D.
did postgraduate studies in religion at the University of Ghana and holds a PhD in Theology from the University of Birmingham, UK. He is lecturer in the Study of Religion; Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology; and Theology, Media and Culture at the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana. Dr. Asamoah-Gyadu has been elected to serve as Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University (2004). His works include: ' "Blowing the Cover": Religious Functionaries in African Films", Legon Journal of Humanities (2003); and African Charismatics (Leiden: E.J. Brill, forthcoming). He is currrently researching into the appropriation of modern media technologies by Pentecostal/charismatic movements in West Africa focusing on the handbills, posters, and banners, through which they advertise their programs.
Senior Research Fellow (2004), Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divity
School, USA.

Kathleen Mahoney, Ph.D.
Foundation representative
Executive Vice President
The Humanitas Foundation
New York, New York,
USA

Adán M. Medrano, Executive Secretary of the Fellowship Program
is a video and web site producer and President of JM Communications in Houston, Texas, USA. Among his recent productions are a five-part video series, "El Catecismo de La Iglesia Católica" (The Catechism of the Catholic Church), 1996, which uses documentary format to explore traditional religious experiences, and "Soul of the City" 1997, a thirty-minute documentary about the role of public ritual in urban Catholic parishes. For the Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network, he installed a website which includes RealAudio and photography to show the human face of farmworker health, education, and labor issues. He provides consultation to philanthropic and other agencies in the field of religious communication. He has served as President of the Association of Catholic TV and Radio Syndicators in the US and founded the International Latino Film Festival, San Antonio CinéFestival, and the weekly "Nuestra Familia" television series.
USA

Jolyon Mitchell Ph. D.
is Senior Lecturer in Communication, Theology and Ethics and Director of The Media and Theology Project at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to teaching, he worked as a producer and journalist for BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4. Recent productions included Garrison Keillorís Radio Preachers (Radio 4 and BBC World Service) and Images of Faith (BBC Radio 4). His research interest is centred around the evolving relationship amongst media, religion and culture; the theological contribution to Media Ethics and Media Literacy; the craft of homiletics (preaching) in a media-saturated culture; the history of Christian and Religious Communication and the implications for theology of the rapid convergence of communication technologies.
He is a member of the Uppsala Media, Religion and Culture Group, a small group of scholars from Norway, Sweden and the US that seeks to develop further the research into the relationship between Media,Religion and Culture. In 1999 he wrote Visually Speaking: Radio and the Renaissance of Preaching and also in 1999 co-edited Interactions: Theology Meets Film, TV and the Internet.
United Kingdom

David Morgan Ph. D.
Chair of the Study Commission, is Duesenberg Professor in Christianity and the Arts and Professor of Humanities and Art History at Valparaiso University (Indiana). He has held fellowships from the Getty Grant Program, the American Antiquarian Society, the National Endowment for Humanities, and the Pew Program in Religion and American History at Yale University. Morgan edited and contributed to a volume of essays, Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman, (Yale, 1996), and has authored three books--Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images (California, 1998), Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production (Oxford, 1999), and The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice (California, 2005). Professor Morgan co-edits Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, published by Berg (Oxford). He also co-edits a book series at Routledge entitled “Media & Religion,”with Stewart Hoover and Jolyon Mitchell.
USA

Fabio PASQUALETTI
is a professor at the Faculty of Science of Social Communication at the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome. He teaches Radio Production, Music and Communication, and Participatory Communication. He has a Bacellor in Filosophy 1986 and Theology 1989 (Pontifical Salesian University) a Laurea in Pedagogy 1986 (State University of Parma) and a Master in Teleccomunicaiton 1994 (Michigan State University). His master thesis was on Radio drama and Hypermedia, he wrote different articles on rock music and youth, particularly focusing on the pedagogical dimension of music. He is analysing the implications of digital culture and the perception of transcendence.
Italy

Germán Rey Ph. D.
is Professor in the Department of Communications of the Pontifical Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia and also Vice President of the Fundación Social. He is a regular presentor at the Latin American "Creators of Christian Images" seminars. He has been advisor to the Ministry of Communications of Colombia and is a regular media columnist in the daily newspaper, "El Tiempo." He has also been an expert of the Department of Communications of CELAM (Latin American Council of Catholic Bishops). He is co-author of three books " La Imagen Nuestra de Cada Día", "La Realidad Imaginada" and "Imagens da América Latina" (Sao Paulo) dealing with church ministry and video culture in Latin America. His other books include: "Las Industrias Culturales" (México) and "Escenografías Para el Diálogo" (Lima). He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal, "Revista de Estudios Sociales" and is director of the book series, "Conversaciones." 
Colombia

Hans Wennink, Ph.D.
Foundation representative
Stichting Porticus
Amsterdam
The Netherlands