Radha Sarma Hegde is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication and MA Director in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Her academic background includes a BA from the University of Madras in 1973 and an MA from the University of Delhi in 1975. Hegde's research and teaching center on migration, media flows, globalization, and transnational feminism. She investigates the role of media in shaping the lives and cultures of transnational immigrant communities, media practices and representations that define national belonging, identity, and culture amid global migration. Her scholarship addresses migration and mobility, the impact of media and technology on redefining cultural borders and citizenship, the reconfiguration of national belonging through migrant presence and representation, surveillance of migrants in global urban settings, and media-enabled reimagining of transnational communities and cultural politics in evolving urban landscapes.

Hegde authored the book Mediating Migration (Polity, 2016) and edited Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures (New York University Press, 2011). She co-edited the Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora (Routledge, 2018). Her articles have been published in prominent journals including Communication Theory, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Feminist Media Studies, Violence against Women, and Global Media and Communication. She serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals in media and cultural studies and has co-edited the journal Feminist Media Studies. Hegde's earlier ethnographic work examined gender identities and reproductive politics in south India, focusing on violence and motherhood. She received the 2019 Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship from the International Communication Association and a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award. Hegde has contributed to academic governance and international collaborations, including visiting professorships.

Professional Email: radha.hegde@nyu.edu