Department of Journalism & Media Studies
School of Communication,
Information and Library Sciences
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone 732-932-7500 ext: 8174
Email dkumar[at]scils.rutgers.edu
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Deepa Kumar is a
critical media
studies scholar whose work is driven by an active
engagement with the complex issues that characterize our era of
globalization and war. Her areas of research include media, war, and
imperialism; media, globalization, and class; media and gender; and Islam,
the Middle East and
She is on the editorial boards of Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication, Culture and Critique, and Feminist Media Studies. She was awarded the Young Scholar Leader Award for 2007 by the National Communication Association's Critical Cultural Studies Division.
Her first book, Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike, (now available in paperback) is about how collective struggle can impact the media and society in progressive ways. She is currently working on her second book, on the U.S. media, political Islam and the Middle East. She has lectured widely on Islam, Islamophobia and the media.
You can listen to a WBAI radio roundtable discussion on these issues, featuring Deepa Kumar and other scholars, by clicking here:
Part 1 | Part 2.
She has also lectured on issues such as media and democracy, labor and globalization, the Iraq war, media representations of women, and Hindu fundamentalism in India.
RADIO
"Media Matters" with Robert McChesney January 20, 2009
WBAI interview May 1, 2007
CounterSpin interview June 1, 2007
WBAI interview August 1, 2007
WBAI Roundtable on "Islam and the Structure of Global Power"
Part 1 November 18, 2007
Part 2 November 25 2007
VIDEO
BOOK LAUNCH at SUNY-Stony Brook, May 7, 2007
Long Island Alternative Media
Public Access TV
On Islamophobia