PittComm Alumna Deepa Kumar Wins Award
Dr. Deepa Kumar (PhD Pittsburgh 2001), Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers, received on 16 November 2007 the annual Young Leader Scholar Award for the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association. She has also just published a book, from the University of Illinois Press, which is entitled, Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike (2007). She has published numerous important articles in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2006), Marxism and Communication Studies: The Point is to Change It, ed. Artz, Macek and Cloud (2006), Media, Culture and Society (2005), Television and New Media (2005), Feminist Media Studies (2004), Class and News, ed. Heider (2004), and Critical Studies in Media Communication (2001).
For more information link to http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~dkumar/