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Sahana Udupa is a Professor of Media Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Germany, and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center. She leads the Center for Digital Dignity, an international network addressing online political expression challenges. Her research focuses on extreme speech, disinformation, and platform governance, with notable work including a UN-commissioned paper on countering online hate and an award-winning 2024 article on AI and extreme speech.
She holds ERC grants, including a consolidator grant for a cross-national study on small social media platforms (2024–2029). She chairs an LMU Center for Advanced Studies research group on encrypted messaging and extreme speech, co-editing a forthcoming book on WhatsApp (NYU Press). Awards include the Francqui Chair and ICA’s Outstanding Article Award.
- Affiliations: Harvard Berkman Klein Center, LMU Munich, ERC-funded projects
- Grants: €2M ERC consolidator grant, multiple international fellowships
Her advisory roles include MediaWell (SSRC) and editorial boards of leading journals. Current projects include a symposium on encrypted messaging and a UN policy report on extreme speech.
