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Arvind Singhal
Education: Ph.D. (communication) and M.A., Annenberg School, U of S. California; M.A. (radio-TV-film), Bowling Green St. U; B.S. (mech. engg.), U of Delhi, India.
Professional Experience: Professor and Presidential Research Scholar, Ohio University. Taught previously at the University of Southern California, University of California - LA, California State University – LA, Bowling Green St. U, Institut Teknologi MARA (Malaysia), and Bangkok U (Thailand); and lectured in over 50 countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Australia, Europe, and North America, including INSEAD Business School (France); U of Copenhagen (Denmark); U of Talinn (Estonia); Telenor Corporate University (Norway); Stockholm School's Executive Program (Russia); U of Macau (China); Universidad del Norte (Colombia); University of the Philippines - Los Banõs; Chulalongkorn University and Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand); Indraprastha College, Lady Irwin College, and Sophia College (India); and U of Western Cape, South Africa.
Publications: Author or editor of eight books -- Communication of Innovations: A Journey with Everett M. Rogers (Sage, 2006); Organizing for Social Change (Sage, 2006); Entertainment-Education Worldwide: History, Research, and Practice (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004); Combating AIDS: Communication Strategies in Action (Sage, 2003); The Children of Africa Confront AIDS: From Vulnerability to Possibility (Ohio U Press, 2003); India’s Communication Revolution: From Bullock Carts to Cyber Marts (Sage, 2001); Entertainment-Education: A Communication Strategy for Social Change ( Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999); and India's Information Revolution (Sage, 1989). Author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles and essays in edited volumes and journals such as Journal of Comm., Comm. Theory, Comm. Monographs, Comm. Y’book, Journal of Broadcasting & E Media, Comm. Quarterly, Int’l Comm. Gazette; European Jour. of Comm., Asian Jour. of Comm., & Journal of Development Comm.
Honors: The first Everett M. Rogers Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contributions to Entertainment-Education, USC Annenberg & Norman Lear Center. NCA's Applied Communication Division's Distinguished Book Award for Combating AIDS: Communication Strategies in Action (in 2004) and Entertainment-Education: A Communication Strategy for Social Change (in 2000); CHOICE 2002 Outstanding Academic Title Award for India’s Communication Revolution: From Bullock Carts to Cyber Marts; Top Three Paper Awards from the International Comm. Association (six times), the National Comm. Association (thrice), and regional Comm. Associations (twice); Distinguished International Scholar, U of Macau; Senior Summer Scholar, North Dakota St. U.; Ohio U Baker Research Award (twice); Provost's Undergraduate Teaching Recognition (1993); and appointed University-Wide Presidential Research Scholar in the Behavioral Sciences (2001 to 2006). Research grants from the CDC; NSF; Ford, Rockefeller, and the Packard Foundation; Helen Lang Charitable Trust, Population Communication Intl., Voice for Humanity, Plexus Institute, Population Media Center, Telenor Corporation, and others.
Appointments: Advisor to World Bank, UN-FAO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNFPA, U.S. State Department (Public Affairs, Estonia, India, and Swaziland), U.S. A.I.D, Family Health International, PATH, BBC WST, International Rice Research Institute, Population Communication International, Population Media Center, and Voice for Humanity. Consultation with Procter & Gamble (U.S.A & Thailand); Norsk Tipping, Telenor AS, SpareBank, Alpha & Omega (Norway); Plexus Institute, Advance, Inc., and Veteran’s Administration (U.S.A). Board Member and Advisor, Minga Peru (Peru); Plexus Institute and Population Media Center (U.S.A), the Asian Mass Communication Information Center (Singapore), and Mudra Institute of Communication and Center for Media Studies (India).
Research Interests: the entertainment-education communication strategy, health communication; development organizing; and complexity science approaches to understanding organizational and social change.
Teaching Specialization: health communication, diffusion of innovations, persuasion and social influence, and intercultural communication.
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