Meenakshi Gigi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham is an Indian professor of communication studies and writer. Durham was born in Mangalore, India but moved to the United States and then Canada at a young age. She is employed at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.[1] Durham is currently a joint Professor of Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies as well as the Dean for Outreach and Engagement for The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences [2] She was previously a Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development. She was also the Associate Faculty, Director of the Obermann Center of Advanced Studies, and she is a member of the board of directors for the Project of Rhetoric of Inquiry.[3]

Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Academic background
ThesisIs it all in the telling?: A study of the role of text schemas and schematic text structures in the recall and comprehension of printed news stories (1990)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Main interestsMedia and the politics of the body
Websitehttps://clas.uiowa.edu/sjmc/people/meenakshi-gigi-durham
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Durham sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Communication, Feminist Media Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication, Culture & Critique and Sexualization, Media, and Society. From 2007-2016, she was executive editor of the Journal of Communication Inquiry.

Education

Undergraduate degree

  • University of West Florida. Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication Arts, Magna cum laude. 1982 – 1984 [2]
  • Women's Christian College. Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Chemistry, with Math and Physics minors, First Class. 1977 – 1980 [2]

Master's degree

  • Louisiana State University. Master of Journalism, Journalism and Mass Communication. 1984 – 1985 [2]

Doctorate degree

Current university

  • Associate Dean for Outreach & Engagement and Director of Diversity, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Iowa
  • Professor and Collegiate Scholar of Journalism and Mass Communications and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa [3]
  • Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at University of Iowa [3]

References
  1. Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. "Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Joint Professor of Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (profile)". School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
  2. School of Journalism & Mass Communication. (2017, January 11). Retrieved February 16, 2017, from https://clas.uiowa.edu/sjmc/people/meenakshi-gigi-durham
  3. Durham, M. (n.d.). LinkedIn: Meenakshi Durham. Retrieved February 21, 2017, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenakshi-durham-4a9b31ab
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