Ethnicity & Race in Communication





The Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division is concerned with conceptual, methodological and empirical approaches that apply, extend or develop media and communications theory and analysis through an examination of race, ethnicity, migration and diaspora within local, national and transnational contexts. The division also works to advocate for the improved status, representation and opportunities for underrepresented scholars in the field of media and communications within and across boundaries.

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	Roopali Mukherjee (Chair) is associate professor of media studies at the City University of New York, Queens College. Mukherjee writes about race within contemporary US public culture. Her book,The Racial Order of Things: Cultural Imaginaries of the Post-Soul Era was published in 2006 by the University of Minnesota Press. Her co-edited anthology, Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times will be published by NYU Press in 2012. She is currently completing two projects — a special issue for the journal, Social Text entitled Undoing Leviathan: The State and the Cultural Turn, and a book on the relations between black subjectivity and material culture in ”post-racial” America.	Miyase Christensen (Vice Chair) is Professor of Media and Communication studies at Karlstad University and research fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and is the author and co-editor of numerous international publications. Her latest books include Online Territories: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space (2011, NY: Peter Lang); Understanding Media and Culture in Turkey: Structures, Spaces, Voices (forthcoming 2011; NY: Routledge); and, Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context (2008, Cambridge: CSP). Her research focuses, from a social theory perspective, on globalization/transnationalization/migration processes in relation to mediation and identity; and, politics of popular communication.