Diasporic/Migration Studies Critical Race theory Popular Culture Cultural Studies Feminism/Feminist theory
Relevant Experience:
• 2014-2018 Editorial Board, Feminist Media Studies • 2007-2009 Chair, Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division, International Communication Association • 2007-2009 Chair, Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division, International Communication Association • 2007-2013 Co-editor for Commentary and Criticism, Feminist Media Studies • 2007-2009 Chair, Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division, International Communication Association • 2004-2009 Co-founder, Vice Chair (2004-2006), Chair (2006-2009), Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division, International Communication Association
Distinctions:
• 2015-2016 Carolina Women’s Center, Faculty Scholar • 2014-2015 Junior Faculty Development award • 2014-2014 Spring 2014 Cramer Fellow, Institute of the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina • 2012-2013 UNC University Research Council Grant
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• COMM 089 Romance Culture • COMM 089 Global Feminisms • COMM 224 Introduction to Gender and Communication • COMM 422 Family Communication: Kinship, Community, and Globalization • COMM 524 Feminisms, Communication, and Culture • COMM 824 Transnational Feminisms • COMM 849 Identity Culture: The political and the Popular
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Silva, Kumarini (2016). Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press (single authored book)
• 2015 Silva, Kumarini and Kaitlynn Mendes (2015). Feminist Erasures: Challenging Backlash Culture. London, UK: Palgrave Press (edited collection)
• 2015 Silva, Kumarini (2015) Got Milk?: Motherhood, Breastfeeding, and
(Re)domesticating Feminism in 'Feminist Erasures: Challenging Backlash
Culture'. Kumarini Silva and Kaitlynn Mendes (Ed.), London, UK: PalgravePress, pp. 167-182
• 2015 Silva, Kumarini and Kaitlyn Mendes (2015) Invisible and Irrelevant: Setting a Context in 'Feminist Erasures: Challenging Backlash Culture'. Kumarini Silva and Kaitlynn Mendes (Ed.), London, UK: Palgrave Press, pp. 1-18
• 2013 Silva, Kumarini and Danielle Rousseau (2013). Defining Deviance: The Rearticulation
of Aileen Wuronos in Monster in Murders and Acquisitions: Representations of the Serial Killer in Film and Television. Alzena D’Costa (Ed.). Bloomsbury Academic Press, pp. 67-83.
• 2013 Silva, Kumarini (2013) Browning our way to Post-Race: Identity, Identification, and Securitization of Brown in American Identity in the Age
Obama. Amilcar Antonio Barreto and Richard L. O’Bryant (Ed.), Routledge Press, pp. 133-151
• 2012 Saucier, Paul and Kumarini Silva (2012) Keeping it Real in the Global South: Hip-hop comes to Sri Lanka Paul Saucier) in Critical Sociology November 12, pp. 1-6.
• 2010 Silva, Kumarini (2010) Brown: From Identity to Identification, post 9/11. Cultural Studies. Volume 24. Issue 2, 2010, pp. 167-182.
• 2010 Silva, Kumarini (2010) Global nationalisms, pastoral identities: Association for India’s Development negotiates transnational activism. South Asian Popular Culture. Volume 8, Issue 1, April, pp. 47-55
• 2009 Oh, Give Me a Home: Diasporic Longings of Home and Belonging, Social Identities, Vol. 15, Iss. 5, pp. 693-706
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