“Heroes, Victims, and Veils: Women’s Liberation and the Rhetoric of Empire Post 9/11,” Forum on Public Policy (journal of the Oxford Roundtable), 2008.

“Jihad Jane: Constructing the New Muslim Enemy,” Fifth Estate Online, International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism, April, 2010

Kumar, D., “Race, Ideology, and Empire,” Dialectical Anthropology, Vol 39, Issue 1, 2015. This issue of DA was dedicated to essays critically appraising Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, and my invited essay responds to the solicited essays.

“War Propaganda and the (Ab)uses of Women: Media Constructions of the Jessica Lynch Story,” Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, November, 2004.

Lead article: “‘What’s Good for UPS is Good for America’: Nation and Class in Network Television News Coverage of the UPS Strike,” Television and New Media, Vol. 6, No. 2, May, 2005.

“Unveiling Imperialism: Media, Gender, and the War on Afghanistan,” with Carol Stabile, Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 27, no. 5, September, 2005

“Framing Islam: The Resurgence of Orientalism during the Bush II Era,” Journal of Communication Inquiry, No. 34, vol. 3, 2010.

Lead article: “Mediating Racism: The New McCarthyites and the Matrix of Islamophobia,” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication vol. 7, 2014, 9-26.

“Imagining National Security: The CIA, Hollywood, and the War on Terror,” with Arun Kundnani,  Democratic Communiqué, vol. 26, issue 2, 2014.

Kumar, Deepa. Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike (University of Illinois Press, 2007, paperback 2008)