Paula Chakravartty

Paula Chakravartty is the James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University’s Gallatin School and Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Her work critically examines colonial and racial power structures, migration, labor movements, and political economy. She is completing a monograph on Media and Economic Violence and co-authoring Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire. Her research also explores migrant mobility and debt in Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Her research interests include decolonial computing, global communication governance, and the intersections of race and media theory. She has published in journals like American Quarterly, Antipode, and Media Culture and Society, and authored/co-edited books such as Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime and Global Communications: Towards a Transcultural Political Economy.

Recent articles highlight themes like media and fascism, anticolonial world-making, and the disavowal of race in communication theory. She critiques global labor supply chains and infrastructural colonialism, emphasizing racialized economic systems.

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In service roles, she serves as Vice President of the NYU Chapter of the AAUP, advocating for academic freedom and labor rights. Her collaborations include field-based research on migrant debt and infrastructural critiques of empire.

Chakravartty’s work bridges theory and practice, addressing systemic inequities through media studies, political economy, and decolonial frameworks.