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      <\/strong>Aswin Punathambekar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founding Director, Global Media Studies Initiative<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Michigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5427 North Quad,105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: aswinp@umich.edu; Ph: 734-615-0949<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sites.lsa.umich.edu\/aswinp-new<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007    Ph.D., Communication Arts (Media and Cultural Studies), University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2003    M.S., Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2001    M.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1999    B.E., Mechanical Engineering, University of Allahabad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research and Professional Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015-present   Founding Director, Global Media Studies Initiative<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015-2018       Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013-present    Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Univ. of Michigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007-2012       Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Univ. of Michigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journal Editorship <\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018-present    Editor, Media, Culture and Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011-2016       Associate Editor, Media, Culture and Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Series Editor <\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015-present    Editor, Critical Cultural Communication <\/em>series, New York University Press (with Jonathan Gray and Adrienne Shaw).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scholarly Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2013). From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry<\/em>. New York: New York University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited Books<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia<\/em> (with Sriram Mohan), forthcoming, University of Michigan Press, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. and Kumar, S. (Eds.) (2013), Television at Large in South Asia<\/em>. London: Routledge. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. and Kavoori, A. (Eds.) (2008), Global Bollywood<\/em>. New York: New York University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special Issue Journal Editor<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar A. and Kavada, A. (2015). Debating Big Data<\/em>. Special issue of Media, Culture and <\/em>Society (Vol 37, Issue 7, October 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. and Scannell, P. (2013). Back to the Future: Media and Communication Studies in the 21st<\/sup> <\/em>Century<\/em>. Special issue of Media, Culture and Society<\/em> (Vol. 35, Issue 1, January 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journal Articles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. and Mohan, S. (2017). A Sound Bridge: Listening for the Political in a Digital Age. International Journal of Communication<\/em>. Available online, vol. 11, pp. 4610-4629. http:\/\/ijoc.org\/index.php\/ijoc\/article\/view\/7060.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. and Sundar, P. (2016). The Time of Television: Broadcasting, Daily Life, and the New Indian Middle Class. Communication, Culture and Critique<\/em>, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 401-421.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2015). Satire, Elections, and Democratic Politics in Digital India. Television and New Media<\/em>, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 394-400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wolock, L. and Punathambekar, A. (2015). Race and Ethnicity in Post-Network American Television: From MTV-Desi<\/em> to Outsourced<\/em>. Television and New Media<\/em>, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 664-679.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. and Scannell, P. (2013). Back to the future: Media and Communication Studies in the 21st<\/sup> Century. Media, Culture and Society<\/em>, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 2-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. and Kumar, S. (2012). Television at large, South Asian History and Culture<\/em>, 2012, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 483-490 (with Shanti Kumar).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2010). From IndiaFM.com to Radio Ceylon: New media and the making of the Bombay film industry. Media, Culture and Society<\/em>, 2010, vol. 32 (5): 841-857.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2010). Reality TV and participatory culture in India. Popular Communication: International Journal of Media and Culture<\/em>, 2010, 8(4): 241-255.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2010). Ameen Sayani and Radio Ceylon: Notes towards a history of broadcasting and Bombay cinema. BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies<\/em>, 2010, 1(2): 189-197.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2005). Bollywood in the Indian-American Diaspora: Mediating a Transitive Logic of Cultural Citizenship. International Journal of Cultural Studies<\/em>, 2005, 8(2): 151-175.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Chapters<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2017). Programming Bollywood: Media and the South Asian-American Diaspora, 1965-2015. In The Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora<\/em> (Eds.) Radha Hegde and Ajaya Sahoo, New York: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/em>Punathambekar, A. (2017). Becoming Bollywood: Industrial Identity in an Era of Reform. In Adrian Athique, Vibodh Parthasarathi, and S. V. Srinivas (Eds.), The Indian Media Economy<\/em>. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar A. (2016) Media and Globalization. In Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray (Eds.), Keywords in Media Studies<\/em>, New York: NYU Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/em>Punathambekar, A. (2013). Authoring hype in Bollywood. In Jonathan Gray and Derek Johnson (Eds.), The Companion to Media Authorship<\/em> (Malden, MA: Blackwell).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2013). Diasporic media in an age of global media capitals. In Karin Wilkins, Joseph Straubhaar, and Shanti Kumar (Eds.), New Agendas in Global Communication<\/em> (New York: Routledge).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2010). \u201cReality TV and the making of mobile publics: The case of Indian Idol.\u201d In Marwan Kraidy and Katherine Sender (Eds.), Real Worlds: Global Perspectives on the politics of Reality television<\/em> (New York: Routledge). [Won Best Essay Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2011-12<\/u><\/em>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2010). From Bihar to Manhattan: Bollywood and the Transnational Indian Family. In Michael Curtin and Hemant Shah (Eds.), Re-orienting Global Communications<\/em> (Urbana: University of Illinois Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2008). Introduction: Global Bollywood. In Anandam Kavoori and Aswin Punathambekar (Eds.), Global Bollywood<\/em> (New York: New York University Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2008). \u201cWe\u2019re Online, Not on the Streets: Indian Cinema, New Media, and Participatory Culture.\u201d In Anandam Kavoori and Aswin Punathambekar (Eds.), Global Bollywood<\/em> (New York: New York University Press). <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2007). \u201cBetween Rowdies<\/em> and Rasikas<\/em>: Rethinking Fan Activity in Indian Film Culture.\u201d In Jonathan Gray, et al (Eds.), Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World<\/em> (New York: New York University Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. (2005). \u201cMSSRF\u2019s Information Village Research Project, Pondicherry.\u201d In Balaji Parthasarathy and Kenneth Keniston (Eds.), Information and Communications Technologies for Development: A Comparative Analysis of Impacts and Costs from India<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punathambekar, A. \u201cPCOs in Rural Tamilnadu: Yarns of a Different Kind from Tiruppur.\u201d White paper written for the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telecommunications & Computer Networks Group, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Chennai, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Works in progress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Digital Popular: Media, Culture and Politics in India\u201d (Co-authored Book project in progress). Proposal to be submitted by April 30, 2018 and full manuscript by December 2018. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Localizing YouTube: Language, Cultural Regions, and Digital Platforms<\/em> (accept with revisions, International Journal of Cultural Studies<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Indian Television Industry<\/em> (book co-authored with Shanti Kumar, under contract for the International Screen Industries Series, Palgrave Macmillan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founding Director, Global Media Studies Initiative<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conceptualized and launched a global media initiative involving 5 faculty members and 8 PhD students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obtained grant funding from International Institute for 3-years to support \u201cGlobal Digital Cultures\u201d project ($45,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched Doctoral Institute on Global Media and Communication (biennial) in collaboration with the Social Science Research Council ($25,000). In collaboration with Dr. Katherine Sender, University of Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched Book Workshop for First Time Authors working on manuscripts related to global media and communication (biennial). In collaboration with Dr. Derek Vaillant and Dr. Katherine Sender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervising Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Global Media & Communication (AY 2018-20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working closely with department chair to obtain gift funds to make the initiative sustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, Communication Studies <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Develop and oversee best practices for recruiting, retaining and supporting a diverse PhD student body. Review of the graduate program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Develop programming to support professional development and enhance mentoring of minority graduate students. Coordinate efforts to collaborate with Minority Serving Institutions for PhD recruitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Student Recruitment and Diversity: Successfully managed admissions for 3 years and recruited a diverse group of PhD students. Served as the Faculty Ally for Diversity in Graduate Education<\/u> and represented the interests of the Communication Studies department at the University level (Rackham).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: Steward a graduate program budget of approx. $450,000 composed of general funds, block grants, and gift funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personnel: Lead a committee composed of 2 faculty, 1 staff member, and 2 PhD students to coordinate admissions, degree certification, program review, student awards, conference funds, research funds, and other student services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Committee Member, Center for South Asian Studies (2011-present) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Administer FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) grants and manage the Federal National Resource Center Title VI budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oversee MA program admissions for South Asian Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organize annual conference focused on South Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research grants and awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2016-2019) Enterprise Grant from the International Institute, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ($45,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social Science Research Council Inter-Asia Program grant for Doctoral Institute on Global Media and Communication (Biennial, $5000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2016) Rackham Spring\/Summer Research Award ($6000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (2014-15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2013-16). Marsh Fellowship, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ($30,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2013-14). Social Science Research Council grant for Inter-Asia program in \u2018Media, Activism and the New Political\u2019 ($4500).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2012). Best Essay in an edited collection, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2012 (\u2018Reality TV and the Making of Mobile Publics\u2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2010-11) Research grant from Center for International Business Education, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, $2500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2008-09), Rackham Faculty Grant. University-wide grant competition, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ($15000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Wisconsin Graduate School Prize Fellowship, 2003-04 and 2005-06. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2006). Pearce Award for Academic Excellence, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin- Madison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2004-05). Dissertation Research Grant, Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2004). McCarty Pre-Dissertation Research Award, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Academic Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn the Ordinariness of Participatory Culture.\u201d Symposium piece for special issue on Fan Activism, In Henry Jenkins and Sangita Shresthova (Eds.), Transformative Works and Cultures<\/em> (vol. 10, 2012). http:\/\/journal.transformativeworks.org\/index.php\/twc\/article\/view\/378<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cA Conversation\u201d (with Rohit Chopra and Manan Ahmed), in <\/em>Seminar: A Country of Our Own<\/em>, Issue no. 632, April 2012. http:\/\/www.india-seminar.com\/2012\/632\/632_conversation.htm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Indian Idol and Flash Fandom<\/em>. In Media Res, Media Commons, November 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 A Family Drama: Television and the Fight for the National Family<\/em>. In Media Res, Media Commons, April 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What brown cannot do for you: MTV-Desi, diasporic youth culture, and the limits of television<\/em>. FLOW, Vol.10, Issue 2. http:\/\/flowtv.org\/?p=4028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Television, participatory culture, and politics: the case of Indian Idol<\/em>. FLOW, Vol. 10, Issue 5, http:\/\/flowtv.org\/?p=4182<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colombo Calling: Radio Ceylon and Bombay cinema\u2019s \u201cnational audience. <\/em>FLOW, Vol. 10, Issue 8. http:\/\/flowtv.org\/?p=4303<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Works in Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Indian Television Industry<\/em> (book co-authored with Shanti Kumar, under contract for the International Screen Industries Series, Palgrave Macmillan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProgramming Culture: Media and the Indian Diaspora, 1965-2015\u201d (with Lia Wolock, invited contribution to Routledge Handbook on the Indian Diaspora<\/em>, eds. Radha Hegde and Ajay Sahoo, New Delhi: Routledge).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMobile Publics: Media, Popular Culture, and Politics in Digital India\u201d (Book project in progress).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Grants and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Young Scholar Award, 2014, Popular Communication Division, International Communication Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2013-16). Marsh Research Grant, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ($30,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2013-14). Social Science Research Council grant for Inter-Asia program in Media, Activism and the New Political ($4500).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2012). Best Essay in an edited collection, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2012 (\u2018Reality TV and the Making of Mobile Publics\u2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2010-11), Research grant from Center for International Business Education, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, $2500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2008-09), Rackham Faculty Grant. University-wide grant competition, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ($15000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Wisconsin Graduate School Prize Fellowship, 2003-04 and 2005-06.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2006). Pearce Award for Academic Excellence, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin- Madison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2004-05). Dissertation Research Grant, Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2004). McCarty Pre-Dissertation Research Award, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited lectures\/presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listening for the Political: Public Culture, Sound, and Citizenship in Digital India<\/em>. Invited lecture at Arizona State University, October 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Re-Imagining Global Worlds: Media, Culture and Identity in the 21st<\/sup> Century<\/em>. Keynote lecture at the \u201cMedia and Public Diplomacy\u201d conference at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, June 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visual Culture and Democratic Politics: Inter-Asian Perspectives<\/em>. Invited lecture at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, June 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reorienting Digital Studies: Globalization and the Futures of Media Studies<\/em>. Invited lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai, June 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound Clouds: Listening and Citizenship in Indian Public Culture<\/em>. Keynote<\/u> lecture at \u201cSounds of South Asia\u201d conference at Northwestern University, April 14, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mobile Publics: Media Audiences in Digital India<\/em>. Lecture at Asian Studies Lecture Series <\/em>at Bowling Green State University, April 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raging Soundbytes: Listening for the Political in Digital India<\/em>. Lecture at \u201cSounds of South Asia\u201d symposium at Northwestern University, February 12, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politics after YouTube: Satire, everyday life, and political culture in digital India<\/em>. Lecture at the Department of Communication, Boston College, April 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becoming Bollywood: Industrial Identity in an Era of Reform<\/em>. Presented at conference on \u201cIndia at Leisure,\u201d Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, February 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politics after YouTube: Digital Media and the Reshaping of Indian Public Culture<\/em>. Presentation at conference on Media Activism, Social Science Research Council, University of Pennsylvania, September 2014. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On murderous and other kinds of rage: Participatory culture and politics in an age of globalization<\/em>. Global Studies Seminar series, Denison University, April 2012. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diasporic media in an age of media capitals<\/em>. Department of Culture and Communication, Drexel University, September 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Television, Participatory Culture, and Politics: The case of Indian Idol<\/em>. Scholarly lecture series at The International Institute and the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan, November 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Bollywood: Diasporic media in an age of media capitals<\/em>. Symposium on New Agendas in Global Communications Research, Department of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas-Austin, October 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking L.A., Talking Bombay: Bollywood and the new media world<\/em>. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, April 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From IndiaFM.com to Radio Ceylon: new media and the making of Bollywood<\/em>. Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, September 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference presentations<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YouTube Regions: Producing South India Through Online Video<\/em>. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, May 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When was India digital? Towards a history of networked publics<\/em>. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, May 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Peninsular Imagination: Online Video and the Narration of South Indian Identity<\/em>. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, March 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Listen for the Political in Digital India<\/em>. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Berlin, Germany, 2016. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entertaining the Political: Online Video and Political Culture in New India<\/em>. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Time of TV: Broadcasting, Dailiness, and the New Indian Middle Class<\/em>. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satire and democratic politics in digital India<\/em>. Paper presented at conference on New Media and Democracy: Global Perspectives held at the University of Oregon, April 2015. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Symbolic Dimensions of Media Activism<\/em>. Workshop presentation at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, May 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radio Ceylon in the Indian Ocean Arena: Towards a More Expansive Cultural Geography of Media<\/em>. Presentation at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, May 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Murderous and Other Kinds of Rage: Mapping Cultural Politics in Digital India<\/em>. Paper presented at the Media in Transition Conference, MIT, May 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Television comedy, laughter, and the making of an Indian middle class.<\/em> Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, May 2012, Phoenix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participation first, politics next<\/em>. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, May 2012, Phoenix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making room for television comedy: Television, the modern, and the everyday in 1980s India<\/em>. Paper presented at annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2012, Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bollywood in the Indian Ocean Arena: An emergent geography of media power<\/em>. Paper presented at \u2018Beyond Normative Approaches: Media and everyday life in Africa\u2019 conference at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, February 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving beyond the \u2018national\u2019 in global media studies<\/em>. Presentation at a pedagogy workshop (on teaching global media studies) at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, May 2011, Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breaking Waves: Media mobility beyond global flows<\/em>. Panel organizer and chair (with Jonathan Gray) at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, May 2011, Boston. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Television and the struggle for the ordinary<\/em>. Paper presented at Global Fusion Conference, October 2010, Texas A & M University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bollywood in the world: Diasporic entrepreneurs and the promise of digital media<\/em>. Paper presented at annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2010, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Provincializing Media Studies<\/em>, organizer and panel chair, International Communication Association conference, May 2009, Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe world isn\u2019t flat, it\u2019s Iggy:\u201d Diasporic television in the post-network era<\/em>, paper presented at annual conference of the International Communication Association, May 2009, Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rethinking media circulation<\/em>, plenary session co-organizer, Media-in-Transition conference, April 2009, MIT (with Jonathan Gray).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indian Idol: Reality TV and the making of mobile publics<\/em>. Paper presented at \u201cReal Worlds: Global perspectives on politics of reality TV,\u201d symposium at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, November 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brokering Bollywood: Film journalism, new media and the production of locality<\/em>, paper presented at Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008. Organizer and panel chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagining the NRI Audience: Bollywood, Overseas Markets, and Dot-com Companies<\/em>. Invited paper presented at annual conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal, May 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unboxing Ethnic Television<\/em>. Workshop Panelist at annual conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal, May 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location Matters: Spatial Logics of Bollywood-Dotcom Convergence<\/em>. Chaired panel and presented paper at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Philadelphia, March 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Film history as a history of media convergence<\/em>. Invited paper presented at South Asian Cinema conference, University of Pennsylvania, February 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Brown Can(not) Do For You: MTV-Desi and the Limits of Diaspora<\/em>. Invited paper presented at Unboxing Television conference, MIT, Boston, November 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monetizing Citizenship: Bollywood, Dotcoms, and the NRI Market<\/em>. Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Chicago, March 2007. Panel chair and organizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/em>Filmi Addas: Indian cinema, new media, and participatory culture. <\/em>Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Vancouver, March 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rahman Online: Notes on Film Music and Fan Collectives<\/em>. Paper presented at the Media-in-Transition conference, <\/em>MIT, May 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rituals of Translation: Bollywood cinema and Indian-American Youth Culture<\/em>. Paper presented at the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University and Department Service <\/strong> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Chair-Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Communication Studies, 2015-2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founding Director, Global Media Studies Initiative<\/em>, 2015-current.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knight Wallace Journalism Fellow Advisor, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2015-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMM Strategic Budget Review Committee, 2015-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMM Third-Year Review Committee, 2015-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advisory Board Member, Asian and Pacific Islander Studies, Department of American Culture, 2015-present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NCID Post-Doc Fellowship Reviewer, 2014-15, 2015-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OVPR Faculty Grants Reviewer, 2015-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop, Invited Faculty Mentor, University of Pennsylvania, April 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GSI Training (Inclusive Teaching Workshop), CRLT, University of Michigan, April 21, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited Faculty Mentor, Dissertation Workshop, Association of Asian Studies, March 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tenure and Promotion Reviewer \u2013 The New School, 2014-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tenure and Promotion Reviewer \u2013 Michigan State University, 2014-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tenure and Promotion Reviewer \u2013 The University of Oregon, 2014-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tenure and Promotion Reviewer \u2013 Kettering University, 2014-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMM Foote Dissertation Award Judge, 2013-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tenure and Promotion Reviewer \u2013 Bentley University, 2013-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMM Junior Faculty Mentor (Dr. Julia Sonnevend), 2013-current.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMM Ad-Hoc PhD Curriculum Committee, 2013-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member of Strategy\/Planning Committee for LSA Winter 2014 India Theme Semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member of Executive Committee, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan (2010-current).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty Search Committee (Global Media & Modernity), Department of Communication Studies, 2012-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty Search Committee (Global Media & Modernity), Department of Communication Studies, 2011-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fulbright Campus Review Committee, 2008, University of Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Admissions Committee, 2009-10, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty Search Committee (Digital Environments), Department of Communication Studies, 2009-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty Search Committee (Race, Ethnicity & Media), Department of Communication Studies, 2008-09.                        <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial Boards\/Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial Board, Critical Studies in Media Communication<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial Board, Television and New Media<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial Board, Communication, Culture and Critique<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial Advisory Board, South Asian History and Culture<\/em>, 2008-current.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial Advisory Board, The Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and Television<\/em>, 2007-current.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial Advisory Board, Transformative Works and Culture<\/em>, 2008-current.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviewer \u2013 International Journal of Communication<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviewer \u2013New Media and Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching \u2013 Graduate Student Advisees<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/strong>Dissertation Advisor\/Chair<\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seyram Avle (2014, currently TT-Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts-Amherst)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Candice Haddad (2013, independent scholar, Chicago)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lia Wolock (2017, TT-Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annemarie Iddins (2017, TT-Assistant Prof. at Fairfield University, co-chair with Dr. Shazia Iftkhar)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caitlin Lawson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas Brunton-Wade<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sriram Mohan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuval Katz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pratiksha Menon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dissertation Committee Member<\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bradley Jones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen Ho<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jimmy Draper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andre Cavalcante<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrea McDonnell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Youmans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sridevi Nair (Women\u2019s Studies and English)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kitior Ngu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathryn Frank<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin Pearson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Padma Chirumamilla (School of Information)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicole Hentrich<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courtney Ritter (Screen Arts and Cultures)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dimitrios Pavlounis (Screen Arts and Cultures)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuki Nakayama (Screen Arts and Cultures)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Contact<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Aswin Punathambekar
Department of Communication Studies
#5427, North Quad
105 N. State St,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Ph: 734-615-0949
Email: aswinp@umich.edu
Twitter: @aswinp<\/p>\n\n\n