Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor, Gallatin; and the Department of Media, Culture & Communication, Steinhardt
Technologies of Freedom? Racial Capitalism and the Infrastructures of Empire
Paula Chakravartty is an associate professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt. Her research and teaching interests span comparative political economy, migration, labor and social movements , and decolonial and critical race theory. Her current research focuses on racial capitalism and global media infrastructures, and migrant labor mobility and justice. Her books include Race, Empire and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), Media Policy and Globalization (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), and Global Communications: Towards a Transcultural Political Economy (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008). Recent publications include “#CommunicationSoWhite” in the Journal of Communication (2018), and two special issues on “Mediatized Populisms: Inter-Asian Lineages” for the International Journal of Communication (December 2017), and “Infrastructures of Empire: Towards a Critical Geopolitics of Media and Information Studies” for Media, Culture and Society (2016). Chakravartty serves on the executive board of the NYU Association for University Professors (AAUP), and is affiliated faculty at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, South Asia @ NYU, and the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.