Background
Paula Chakravartty is Associate Professor of Communication and Faculty Associate at the Center for Public Policy and Administration and Affiliated Faculty at the Labor Center and Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her teaching and research cover news media as well as telecommunication and information and communication technologies, science and technology studies, postcolonial and feminist political theory and political economy, with a focus on India, Brazil and the US. She is currently working on a book about the political culture of exclusion, access and citizenship in India’s fractured information society. She is also working on a second project on the changing political economy of development communication in Brazil and India.
Her articles have been published in the International Journal of Communication, Media Culture & Society, Emergences, Television & New Media, Asian American Policy Index, Economic and Political Weekly, and Social Semiotics. She has published several book chapters in edited volumes covering, among other areas, new approaches to international communications, communications and public interest, labor and globalization, and political culture in South Asia. She is the co-author of Media Policy and Globalization (Edinburgh University Press 2006 and Palgrave 2007 – with Katharine Sarikakis) and co-editor of Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 – with Yuezhi Zhao). Her research has been funded by a variety of competitive grants, from the American Association for Indian Studies, the MacArthur Foundation, the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the University of California Institute of Labor and Employment, and both Hellman and Healy Fellowships. She was a Lilly Teaching Fellow at UMass Amherst 2006-2007. She was also Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego from 1999-2003.