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Walt Jacobs is an associate professor and chairperson of the Department of African American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Indiana University. He is passionate about undergraduate education, in terms of teaching (offering two new CLA courses), research (authoring a book on undergraduate media literacy, and co-editing an anthology on educational environments), and service (such as 2006-2010 membership on the U of M’s Council on Liberal Education, which is implementing new university-wide requirements for undergraduates). His current research explores personal and social possibilities of undergraduate students’ generation of creative digital nonfiction.