Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University
Radha’s research and teaching focus on the mediated politics of migration, South Asian diaspora and transnational feminism. Her book, Mediating Migration, was published by Polity Press (December, 2015, UK/ January 2016, USA). She has an edited book, Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures (NYU Press, 2011) and a co-edited volume, Handbook of the Indian Diaspora (Routledge, 2018). Her work has appeared in journals such as International Journal of Cultural Studies, Catalyst, Communication Theory, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Feminist Media Studies, Violence against Women, Global Media and Communication. From 2013-2019 she served as the co-editor of the journal Feminist Media Studies and serves on the editorial board of several major journals in the field of media and cultural studies.
Radha’s work is concerned with the intersectional politics of media and diasporic cultures. Her recent publications and current research interests concern the transnational visibility of highly successful South Asian immigrants as models of neoliberal success. Currently she is completing a project on the cultural politics of English in India and its identity as the language of communication and global aspirations.
In 2024, Radha was inducted as Fellow to the International Communication Association. In 2019, she received the Teresa Award for the advancement of feminist scholarship from the Feminist Division of the International Communication Association. She is a 2014 recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Professional Excellence award.
Radha holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the Ohio State University. With a Masters in English from the University of Delhi, India and then a Masters in Journalism from the Ohio State University, Radha wrote for the Indian Express in Chennai, India, before she launched on her doctoral work and academic career.
She is one of the founding members of Manavi, the first feminist South Asian group established in the United States working at the intersection of gender violence and migration.