Membership
We welcome scholars and practitioners from any discipline who wish to examine and explore the connections between movies and mental processes. Our members include motion picture historians, philosophers, experimental psychologists, social scientists, and filmmakers, from around the world.
Our annual membership fee is $80 for established professionals and $40 for students and Ph.D. candidates. (Our conference registration fees are discounted for students and Ph.D. candidates, as well.)
Benefits of Membership
- Subscription of our award-winning journal, Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind, including online access to all past issues.
- The opportunity to present at our annual conference. (Anyone may attend, but membership is required to present.)
- Recognition as a member of our Society, including the possibility of becoming a Fellow.
Assistance
- Become a member of the Society
- Access Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind online (log in, first)
- Subscribe to the Forum
- Send an email announcement to the Society
- Join SCSMI’s Facebook group and see recent posts
- Renew your membership (log in first)
- Check membership status (log in first)
- Change your profile or mailing address (log in first)
- Recover a lost password
- Membership inquiries
Organization
The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image is a not-for-profit corporation. Anyone is welcome to become a member, by payment of dues. All members are welcome to attend meetings of the Society at our annual conference.
Officers and Board
President
Jeff Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Past Presidents
Stephen Prince,Virginia Tech
Murray Smith, University of Kent
Carl Plantinga, Calvin College
David Bordwell, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, emeritus
Joe Anderson, U. of Central Arkansas, emeritus
Secretary and Treasurer
Joseph Kickasola, Baylor University
Membership Director and Webmaster
Kata Szita, Dublin City University
Editor of Projections
Ted Nannicelli, University of Queensland
Ombudsperson
Alaina Piro Schempp, University of Birmingham
Social Media Coordinator
Cynthia Cabañas, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Board of Directors
Barbara Anderson, Joe Anderson, Katalin Bálint, Maria Belodubrovskaya, Todd Berliner, Margrethe Bruun Vaage, Cynthia Freeland, Andreas Gregersen, Joseph Kickasola, Ted Nannicelli, Karen Pearlman, Carl Plantinga, Johannes Riis, Jeff Smith, Murray Smith, Tim Smith, Kata Szita, Malcolm Turvey
Fellows
Richard Allen, Barbara Anderson, Joe Anderson, Katalin Bálint, Daniel Barratt, Anne Bartsch, John Bateman, Maria Belodubrovskay, Todd Berliner, Robert Blanchet, David Bordwell, Margrethe Bruun Vaage, Catalin Brylla, Noël Carroll, Tony Chemero, Maarten Coëgnarts, Gregory Currie, James Cutting, Jens Eder, Charles Eidsvik, Dirk Eitzen, William Evans, Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Dan Flory, Barbara Flückiger, Cynthia Freeland, Jonathan Frome, Jason Gendler, Andreas Gregersen, Torben Grodal, Lennard Højbjerg Hansen, Bruce Hutchinson, Joseph Kickasola, Miklós Kiss, András Bálint Kovács, Mette Kramer, Birger Langkjær, Dan Levin, Paisley Livingston, Joseph Magliano, Benjamin Meade, Stuart Minnis, Wyatt Moss-Wellington, Wayne Munson, Ted Nannicelli, Karen Pearlman, Héctor Perez Lopez, Carl Plantinga, Gal Raz, Johannes Riis, Sheena Rogers, Brendan Rooney, Rikke Schubart, Ben Singer, Mario Slugan, Jeffrey Smith, Murray Smith, Tim Smith, Monika Suckfüll, Paul Taberham, Ed Tan, László Tarnay, Aaron Taylor, Kristin Thompson, Pia Tikka, Yuri Tsivian, Malcolm Turvey, Casper Tybjerg, Julia Vassilieva, Steven Willemsen, Peter Wuss, Jeffrey Zacks, Dolf Zillmann
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Committee
Catalin Brylla (chair), Bournemouth University
Cynthia Cabañas, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dan Flory, Montana State University
Lingfei Luan, University of Minnesota
Ari Purnama, Utrecht University
Kata Szita, Dublin City University