Jarvis Christian University Educator Selected for Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship by Television Academy

Dr. Trenton McKay Judson, Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities at Jarvis Christian University, has been selected for an Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship by the Television Academy Foundation in Hollywood. He is one of 18 professors selected from colleges and universities nationwide for the 2025 fellowship program.

Since 2021, the Foundation has offered Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowships, established by the Harry & Judy Friedman Family Foundation, in honor of the late television icon and Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, which provide financial support for educators from community colleges and minority-serving institutions to attend its annual Media Educators Conference. The three-day conference, held at the Television Academy’s North Hollywood campus in California Oct. 22-24, connects college classrooms with the television industry by providing media professors with curriculum-enhancing seminars on the latest in the art, science and business of television with prominent leaders in entertainment.

Dr. Judson is an interdisciplinary scholar, filmmaker, and academic leader whose work bridges higher education and creative production. He currently serves as Assistant to the Vice President for International Programs and Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities at Jarvis Christian University where he helped facilitate the Fulbright Teaching Program that recently earned the institution its fourth consecutive Fulbright HBCU Institutional Leader designation by the Secretary of State.

As a filmmaker, Judson’s feature Bad B*tch was released worldwide on major streaming platforms in May 2025, and he is currently in pre-production on The Great Salamanca, a theatrical feature set to film in 2026. His debut novel, "Words Alone Are Certain Good", exploring grief, caretaking and resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans, will be released on November 4.