Faculty

Arvind Rajagopal

Associate Professor of Culture and Communication

Arvind Rajagopal

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Arvind Rajagopal is an associate professor of Media Studies at NYU, and is an affiliated faculty in the Departments of Sociology, and Social and Cultural Analysis. His books include Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India (Cambridge, 2001), which won the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize from the Association of Asian Studies and the Daniel Griffiths Prize at NYU, both in 2003, and The Indian Public Sphere: Structure and Transformation (Oxford, in press).
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. In addition to his scholarly writing, Arvind has also published in forums such the SSRC’s Immanent Frame and opendemocracy.net, and in newspapers and periodicals.


Video Interview


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Awards

  • 1999 : New York University Challenge Grant
  • 2000 : American Institute of Indian Studies. Short term Senior Fellowship
  • 1998 : Honorary Fellow, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • 1998 : Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • 1996 : Sawyer Fellowship, International Institute, University of Michigan
  • 1996 : Macarthur Foundation Fellowship for Research and Writing on Peace and International Cooperation
  • 2004 : American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship, Jan-Oct 2004
  • 2003 : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Prize. Best Book Award. South Asia Council, Association of Asian Studies
  • 2003 : Daniel Griffiths Award, Best Book, NYU, School of Education
  • 2004 : UPE Professor at University of Hyderabad, India.
  • 2006 : Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C..
  • 2008 : Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India.
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

Publications

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Research Interests


  • Political economy of culture
  • Contemporary South Asia
  • Social theory
  • Globalization