# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-jenkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:31:17.448Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-jenkins"
name: "Henry Jenkins"
slug: "henry-jenkins"
description: "Henry Guy Jenkins III is an American media scholar and Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, a joint professorship at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He also has a joint faculty appointment with the USC Rossier School of Education. Previously, Jenkins was the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities as well as co-founder and co-director of the Comparative Media Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has also served on the technical advisory board at ZeniMax Media, parent company of video game publisher Bethesda Softworks. In 2013, he was appointed to the board that selects the prestigious Peabody Award winners."
tagline: "American media scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Henry_Jenkins_(14390001911).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-06-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.719844
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2302071"
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    url:       "http://www.henryjenkins.org"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump