Thursday, March 20, 2025
4:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Stephen Robert '62 Hall, Leung Conference Room (Room 110)
Q&A and Reception with Arvind Rajagopal to Follow
Arvind Rajagopal is Professor of Media Studies at NYU and is an affiliated faculty in the Departments of Sociology and Social and Cultural Analysis. His interests are in comparative media, global genealogies of media theory, and the relationship between mediatic form and the postcolonial state. His work includes Media and the Global Cold War (with Rossen Djagalov, under review), Media and Utopia (with Anupama Rao, Routledge, 2017), The Indian Public Sphere (Oxford, 2009), and Politics After Television (Cambridge, 2001), which won the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize from the Association of Asian Studies and the Daniel Griffiths Prize at NYU. He has won awards from the MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations and has been a Member in the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC.