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Manisha Pathak-Shelat
Manisha Pathak-Shelat is a professor in communication and digital platforms and strategies at MICA. She has taught and worked as media consultant/trainer and researcher in India, Thailand and the United States. She has a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States and in education from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. Professor Pathak-Shelat’s special interests are new media, civic engagement, transcultural citizenship, young people’s media cultures, intersection of civic and consumer cultures, media literacy and gender. Recent projects include an Academy of Finland sponsored multi-country youth media participation project, a study on online civic engagement and transcultural citizenship and a study on digital youth cultures in India. She leads the MICA and University of Tampere partnership project on digitization of learning. She continues her association with UW-Madison as a collaborator on a digital archive of grassroots feminist political media from South Asia. She has received The Soviet Land Nehru Award, Shastri Indo-Canadian Faculty Research Award, The Salzburg Seminar Fellowship and TATA Fellowship for the Study of Contemporary India. Currently, she serves as vice-chair for the Media Education Research section of International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).