Pallavi Guha

Dr. Pallavi Guha is an Associate professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University and the author of Hear #Metoo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism, published by Rutgers University Press. Her book has been positively reviewed in Ms. Magazine, Baltimore Sun, International Journal of Communication, Cultural Sociology, and other publications and is available in 860 libraries worldwide. Her research includes anti-rape and sexual harassment activism on mass media and social media platforms, gender roles in the electoral campaign, and social media. In 2022, Dr. Guha contributed as a research stakeholder of the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse, an initiative of President Biden, in the National Plan on Violence Against Women.

Dr. Guha’s career spans two decades as a journalist, journalism researcher, and educator. Her educational background lies at the intersection of politics and media. She has a Ph.D. in journalism and a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland. Before coming to academia, Dr. Guha was a journalist, working for leading media organizations, including BBC News and The Times of India. She has had the distinct opportunity to cover Indian, UK, and US elections as a journalist.

Dr. Guha has won multiple awards and grants for her scholarship and teaching grants, including the 2019 AEJMC Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in the discipline of mass communication and the most recent Solutions Journalism Network Student Media Grant. She has been recognized with 17 awards and gotten over $54,952 in grants and awards, highlighting distinguished academic excellence and innovative research in pressing societal matters. Dr. Guha is listed as an academic expert on media, politics, and gender, including the safety of journalists and WMC.

Leading media organizations in the U.K., such as the BBC World Service, non-profits such as The First Amendment Project in the U.S., the Government of West Bengal (India), and others have invited Dr. Guha as a speaker to share her research expertise.

Dr. Guha believes in the strength of functional and aspirational mentorship, which has led to her chairing five successful graduate thesis completions, working as an undergraduate research mentor, mentoring graduate students, peer mentorship through the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and serving on the advisory council board of Girls Report, Inc. to support young girls' civic media journalism curriculum in Nepal, focusing on gender empowerment.

Dr. Guha is also an elected member of the journalism professional Freedom and responsibility committee at AEJMC.