Prof. Arjun Appadurai
Goddard Professor in Media, Culture and Communication, Senior Fellow – Public Knowledge, New York University
Prof. Arjun Appadurai is the Goddard Professor in Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, where he is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin. He also holds visiting positions at the Tata Institute for Social Sciences (Mumbai, India) and The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity (Gottingen, Germany). Prof. Appadurai serves as the Honorary Professor in the Department of Media and Communication of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Prof. Appadurai has held various professorial chairs and visiting appointments at some of top institutions in the United States and Europe. He is a world renowned expert on the cultural dynamics of globalization. He is the cofounder of the journal Public Culture and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.