Radhika Gajjala

Radhika Gajjala (PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1998) is Acting Director of the American Culture Studies Program and Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University, USA. She was Fulbright Professor in Digital Culture at University of Bergen, Norway for the year 2015-2016. In 2012, she was Senior Fulbright scholar at Soegijapranata Catholic University. She has researched non-profit organizations and also engaged in community partnerships with biracial communities in the U.S. She has been director of Women’s Studies and of American Culture studies programs at BGSU. Her work that engages themes related to globalization, digital labor, feminism and social justice. Published books include "Cyberculture and the Subaltern" (Lexington Press, 2012) and "Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women" (Altamira, 2004). Co-edited collections include "Cyberfeminism 2.0" (2012), "Global Media Culture and Identity" (2011), "South Asian Technospaces"(2008) and "Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice" (2008). She is currently work on book length projects articles related to Philanthropy 2.0, Games for Change, Archives of Subalternity and Digital Humanities, Carework and Affective Labor, South Asian Digital Diasporas and on DIY craft networks. Her latest book on Philanthropy 2.0 is in in progress as of 2017. She is also working on a book length project tentatively titled “Gendered Digital Labor: Affective Networks through Domestic Space.”