Kavoori
Dr. Anandam Kavoori
About: Dr. Kavoori is currently engaged in a program of autoethnographic and narrative writing.
Education
MFA. Narrative Non-Fiction writing, University of Georgia.
Study in A Second Discipline (Ecology), University of Georgia.
Ph.D. Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Maryland, College Park.
M.A. Cultural Anthropology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
B.A. Sociology, Hindu College, University of Delhi, India.
Research Interests and Activities
Dr. Kavoori works in the field of Transnational Cultural Studies. He has written or edited ten books and over fifty single (or co-authored) journal articles and book chapters on the subject of media and culture in a global context. His work has appeared in Media, Culture and Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Cultural Studies / Critical Methodologies, Global Media and Communication, American Journalism, International Journal of Cultural Studies amongst many others. His books include The Logics of Globalization; Thinking Television and Global Bollywood. He is also the author of two books of fiction, including a novel, The Children of Shahida.
Teaching Specialties
Dr. Kavoori teaches a range of EMST undergraduate courses, including EMST 4430: International Media Entertainment; EMST 3320: Entertainment Media Analysis; EMST 3110: Writing for Entertainment Media; EMST 4410: Global Media Entertainment Industries and EMST 4320: Media Audiences. He is the Program Director of the EMST@MADRID, Spain summer study abroad program.
Experience
Dr. Kavoori has been a consultant to News Corporation, CNN International, Discovery Channel, amongst others. He was a faculty judge for The George Foster Peabody Awards for over twenty years. Before joining academia, he was a journalist with media organizations in India and the United States. Dr. Kavoori has taught in study abroad programs developed by Grady/ UGA (Oxford University, Costa Rica, Cuba and Cambodia), the UNO/ University of Innsbruck program in Austria and has held a visiting position at Korea University (Seoul, Korea) and Ludwig Maximillian University (Munich, Germany). He directed Grady’s Costa Rica program from 2014 to 2019. He has twenty plus years of experience in grant writing with a focus on environmental and science communication (details in CV).
Awards and Fellowships
Dr. Kavoori has been a Lilly Teaching Fellow and Mentor at UGA. In addition to awards for teaching in the Grady College, he has been nominated for both the Russell and Meigs Teaching Awards at UGA. He was a Service-Learning Fellow and has been nominated by the Grady College (on three occasions) for the Distinguished Research Professorship at the University of Georgia.