Roger Aden Benjamin Bates Christina Beck Laura Black Jennifer Bute Devika Chawla Tom Daniels David Descutner Elizabeth Graham Claudia Hale Lynn Harter Anita James Andrew Ledbetter Judith Lee Raymie McKerrow Jerry Miller Dan Modaff Nagesh Rao William Rawlins Greg Shepherd J.W. Smith Jeffrey St. John Scott Titsworth Daniel West Staff Julie Venrick Vicki Rhodes

Devika Chawla

Assistant Professor

Lasher 031

740 593 4820 

chawla@ohiou.edu

Dr. Chawla's curriculum vitae is available for download in PDF format here.

Education

• Ph.D. (Communication) Purdue University, 2004
• M.A. (Communication) Central Michigan University, 2000
• Master’s Diploma (Journalism) Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi, India , 1995
• B. A. (Honors) (English Literature), Delhi University, New Delhi, India, 1994
  

Academic Appointments

• Assistant Professor, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University (2004-present)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Communication, Purdue University (2000-2004)
• Research Assistant, Minority Student Services and Native American Programs Central Michigan University (1999-2000)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Speech Communication and Dramatic Arts, Central Michigan University (1998-1999)

Recent Awards and Honors

• Top Paper, Ethnography Division, National Communication Association, 2007
• OSCLG Kramarae Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2005.
• Top Paper Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2005
  

Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journals such as Qualitative Inquiry; Women & Language; Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies; Storytelling Self, Society; Teaching in Higher Education, Radical Pedagogy, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and contributed invited chapters in edited volumes (see vita for more details)

Editorial Activities

Editorial Board Member (The Qualitative Report); Ad Hoc Reviewer (Qualitative Inquiry; Health Communication; Journal of Family Communication); Nominated Member, Kevelson Award Committee, Semiotic Society of America; Reviewer for NCA’s—Ethnography Division, Gender and Women’s Studies Division, Asia Pacific Division.

Research Interests

Interpretive Research Practices; Performance Ethnography; Narrative and Performative Approaches to Identity; Family History; Women’s Life Histories; Postcolonial Theory; Writing Practices

Teaching Interests

Culture and Communication; Ethnography and Performance Studies; Interpersonal Communication; Family Communication; Anthropological Methods in Communication; Gender and Communication; Communication Theory