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Mahuya Pal, Ph.D.

   

organizational communication, political resistance, subaltern studies

Assistant Professor
813.974.2237
CIS 3036
mpal@cas.usf.edu

Dr. Pal joined the faculty in August 2008. Her research focuses on politics of resistance in the context of neo-liberalism. Her two specific areas of research in organizational communication critically explore a) communicative practices of local resistance in global politics, and b) discursive construction of resistance among transnational labor.

Undergraduate course offerings

  • Organizational Communication
  • Small Group Communication

Representative publications

  • Pal, M., & Dutta, M. J. (2008). Theorizing resistance in a global context: processes, strategies and tactics in communication scholarship. In C. Beck (Ed.), Communication Yearbook, 32, New York, NY: Routledge..

  • Pal, M., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2008). The Indian call center experience: A case study in changing discourses of identity, identification, and career in a global context. Journal of Business Communication, 45, 31-60.

  • Pal, M., & Dutta, M. J. (2008). Public relations in a global context: The relevance of critical modernism as a theoretical lens. Journal of Public Relations Research, 20, 159-179.

Education

Ph.D., Department of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2008

M.Sc., Economics, Calcutta University (India), 1995

B.Sc., Economics (Honors), Mathematics, Political Science, 1993.