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

Deepa Kumar teaches and writes about the limitations of the corporate media system and the ways in which dissenting voices are marginalized from the public sphere. Her areas of research include media, war, and imperialism; media, globalization, and class; media and gender; and Islam, the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, on which she has published several scholarly articles.

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.

She is on the editorial/advisory boards of Critical Studies in Media Communication and the Global Media Journal (Indian Edition), and was awarded the Young Scholar Leader Award for 2007 by the National Communication Association's Critical Cultural Studies Division.

RADIO
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