Srividya Ramasubramanian

 Srividya Ramasubramanian

Srividya Ramasubramanian

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Biography

Texas A&M University College Station - Communication

Researcher, Media Scholar, Communication Specialist, Diversity Consultant, Award-Winning Author, TED Speaker
Higher Education
Srividya
Ramasubramanian
College Station, Texas
Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian (PhD. Penn State University) is Professor of Communication, Affiliated Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies, and former Associate Dean for Climate & Inclusion at Texas A&M University. She is cofounder of Media Rise (a nonprofit for meaningful media for social change), Director of the Difficult Dialogues on Campus Race Relations, and Convener of the campus-wide Inclusive Pedagogy Workshop Series. Her areas of expertise are diversity, identity, intercultural communication, implicit bias, inclusive pedagogy, and media literacy. She conducts interactive workshops on navigating difficult topics in the workplace (such as race relations, politics, and sexual harassment), work-family balance, and prejudice and implicit bias reduction. Her research, teaching, service, community engagement, and advocacy work have been recognized with several awards including the Liberal Arts Cornerstone Faculty Fellowship ’18-’20, NAMLE Outstanding Researcher Award, Center for Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellowship, NCA Mass Comm Division Service Award, Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award, ACE (Accountability, Climate & Equity) Award for Women’s Progress, and Outstanding Diversity Team Award.


Experience

  • Texas A&M University

    Professor Of Communication

    Srividya worked at Texas A&M University as a Professor Of Communication

  • Texas A&M University

    Associate Professor

    Specialty: Media Psychology, Race and Gender in the Media, Intercultural Communication, Media Literacy

  • Texas A&M University

    Associate Dean for Climate & Inclusion

    As Associate Dean for Climate & Inclusion, I facilitate programmatic initiatives to enhance the college’s climate, oversee diversity-related initiatives, advise the dean on all matters related to climate & inclusion and serve as a resource to 12 department heads and 5 program directors. My efforts focus on recruitment, retention, equity, and climate, especially for underrepresented students, faculty, and staff in the college.

  • Texas A&M University

    Professor Of Communication

    Srividya worked at Texas A&M University as a Professor Of Communication

  • Media Rise

    Executive Director

    My responsibilities include strategic planning, programming of Forum panel sessions and Youth Media Rise, educational outreach, consulting, research on positive media, and coordination of Early Rise networking events.

  • National University of Singapore

    Visiting Associate Professor

    As a visiting associate professor at NUS, I taught an honors course on transnational/global media and media industries. I also participated in the Voices of Hunger project as well as the foreign domestic workers' photovoice project.

  • Independent Consultant

    Diversity Educator

    I've been a diversity educator and researcher for more than 14 years, specializing in race relations, gender, sexuality, and religion. I am available to conduct workshops, training, and talks on diversity, identity, intersectionality, inclusion, and work-family balance for universities, K-12 schools, nonprofits, industries, and other organizations. Please write to me at srivigam@gmail.com for enquiries.

  • London School of Economics

    Senior Visiting Fellow

    As a senior visiting fellow, I worked closely with Dr. Shaku Banaji. I worked on projects relating to media literacy and the effects of celebrity news on stereotype reduction and implicit racial attitudes.

Education

  • Mudra Institute of Communication Ahmedabad

    Master's degree

    Communication Management
    Communication Management and Marketing Research

  • Penn State University

    Ph.D.

    Mass Communication
    Dissertation on effects of media literacy training on implicit and explicit racial attitudes supervised by Dr. Mary Beth Oliver. Taught courses on advertising, PR, media & society, and research methods.

Positions

  • National Communication Association

    Chair, Mass Communication Division

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  • National Communication Association

    Chair, Mass Communication Division

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  • Media Rise

    Co-founder and Executive Director

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  • National Communication Association

    Chair, Mass Communication Division

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  • Media Rise

    Co-founder and Executive Director

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  • National Communication Association

    Chair, Mass Communication Division

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  • Media Rise

    Co-founder and Executive Director

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  • National Communication Association

    Chair, Mass Communication Division

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  • Media Rise

    Co-founder and Executive Director

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  • National Communication Association

    Chair, Mass Communication Division

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  • Media Rise

    Co-founder and Executive Director

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