Heather Elliott-Famularo

Department Head

Digital Media and Design | Stamford/Storrs

Professor of Digital Film/Video Production | Storrs
Donna Krenicki Professor of Design and Digital Media
UConn Affiliations: Judaic Studies, Human Rights

Email: heather@uconn.edu

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/famularo/

Education: MFA in Art & Technology (Trustee’s Scholar), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

BFA in Art Media Studies – Computer Graphics, Syracuse University

Languages Spoken: Italiano (Italian)

Areas of Research/Artistic Focus: Documentary filmmaking, digital curriculum development for Holocaust education, video installation art, interactivity, performance art.

Heather Elliott-Famularo is an award-winning filmmaker and artist whose varied research interests include documentary film, fine art installation, photography, and collaborative digital humanities projects. Active across the fields of broadcast television, computer graphics and interactive multimedia, her documentary, Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Palm Beach International Film Festival and was nominated for an Emmy award by the National Association of Television Arts & Sciences – Lower Great Lakes chapter. She has been awarded over $2 million in external research grants as PI/Co-PI from the NSF, NEH, Ohio Humanities Council, the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, and private foundations. She received a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Program grant for Walking Witness: Civic Responsibility in the Shadow of the Holocaust, leading a group of educators across Poland, Hungary, and Greece to understand the still lingering impacts of the Holocaust. She has presented, and her work has been published and exhibited, internationally in Canada, Hungary, Italy and Poland as well as at iDMAa and SIGGRAPH, where she has also acted as curator and juror of numerous exhibitions, including SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging Technologies.

As department head at UConn, Elliott-Famularo is respected for building bridges between the humanities, arts, and sciences. Her most prominent collaborations include the Human Rights Film and Digital Media Initiative with the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, STEAM-related projects around art+science communication, creation of a Digital Public History minor, and sports entertainment with UConn Athletics.

Office Location	Bishop 107
Campus	Storrs