Patricia Aufderheide

Patricia A. Aufderheide
Aufderheide at the Berkman Center 2006 Beyond Broadcast gathering
Education	Ph.D. in history, University of Minnesota[1]
Occupation(s)	University professor and legal scholar
Employer(s)	American University, Washington, D.C.
Website	https://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/paufder.cfm

Patricia Ann Aufderheide^[1] is a scholar and public intellectual on media and social change, and an expert on fair use in media creation and scholarship. She is a University Professor at American University in Washington, D.C.,^[2] where she has worked since 1989 and directed the Center for Social Media, later the Center for Media & Social Impact, beginning in 2000. She has received multiple awards and honors for her journalism and scholarship, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1994, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 1995, and a Distinguished Career Award in 2008 from the International Digital Media and Arts Association.^[3]