Paula Chakravartty

Associate Professor, Media, Culture & Communication
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Paula Chakravartty is James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. Her research and teaching interests span comparative political economy, migration, labor and social movements , and the study of colonial and racial power. She is currently completing a monograph on Media and Economic Violence. She is also working on two on-going collaborative projects: a co-authored book on Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire; and a field-based partnership research project on migrant mobility and debt in Uttar Pradesh, India. She has published widely in numerous journals across disciplines including American Quarterly, Antipode, Economic and Political Weekly, The Journal of Communication, Media Culture and Society, International Journal of Communication, Political Communication, among others. Her books include Race, Empire and the Crisis of the Subprime (Co-edited with Denise Ferreira da Silva with Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), Media Policy and Globalization (Co-Authored by Katharine Sarikakis with Edinburgh University Press, 2006), and Global Communications: Towards a Transcultural Political Economy (Co-Edited with Yuezhi Zhao with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008). She serves as the Vice President of the NYU Chapter of the AAUP (American Association of University Professors).
Selected Publication
Dec 2024 • Communication, Culture and Critique, tcae052
Paula Chakravartty, Charli Muller
Jul 2024 • Handbook of Media and Communication Governance 15, 189-199 • Edward Elgar Publishing
Paula Chakravartty, Srirupa Roy
Nov 2023 • Political Communication Report
Michelle Buckley, Paula Chakravartty, Sahiba Gill
Sep 2022 • Antipode 55(1), 90-112
Mara Mills, Paula Chakravartty
Jan 2022 • More Posthuman Glossary, 99-101 • Bloomsbury Publishing
Paula Chakravartty and Sarah J. Jackson
Edited by Thomas K. Nakayama
June 2020 • Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 17(2):210-219
Jun 2020 • Communication, Culture & Critique 13(2), 270-274 • Oxford University Press
May 2019 • Media and Society, 242-62 • Bloomsbury Publishing
Dec 2018 • Media Theory 2(2), 127-137
Paula Chakravartty, Rachel Kuo, Victoria Grubbs, Charlton McIlwain
Apr 2018 • Journal of Communication 68(2), 254-266 • Oxford University Press
Towards a Critical Geopolitics of Media and Information Studies
Miriyam Aouragh and Paula Chakravartty
Apr 2016 • Media, Culture, and Society 38(4): 559-575
Mediated Populism and the 2014 Indian Elections
Paula Chakravartty and Srirupa Roy
Mar 2015 • Television & New Media 16(4):311-322
Media Appearance
Paula Chakravartty, Armond Towns
Feb 2024 • Communication and Race