Priya Kapoor

Priya Kapoor is the Graduate Program Director for the Department of Communication and Associate Professor. She teaches courses on Critical and Cultural theory focusing on feminist studies, postcolonial and globalization theory; Ethnography, and Media Studies. Find her teaching Sp215, Sp415/515 as a community based learning course, Sp4/552, Sp514 and Sp525. Sp415 and Sp452 are University Studies Cluster Courses for the Leadership and Women's Studies clusters respectively.

Dr. Kapoor received her Bachelors degree with Honors from the University of Delhi, India in 1987 after which she went on to earn a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi in 1988. Dr. Kapoor received a Master's in International and Development Communication from Cornell University in 1991 and a Doctorate in Communication from the College of Communication at Ohio University in 1995. Apart from academics, Dr. Kapoor has worked as a broadcast journalist in one of India's largest news agencies, Press Trust of India, and as Communication Consultant with UNICEF, New York