About Me

I am an Associate Professor of organizational communication in the Department of Communication, Wayne State University. My research examines how organizations and communities enact urban sustainability in a variety of contexts, ranging from entrepreneurial ecosystems to community organizing for water access.

I have received several awards and obtained funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Environmental Protection Agency, and Waterhouse Family Institute, among others. Till date, I have published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries; my co-edited book Movements in Organizational Communication: Current Issues and Future Directions (Routledge) was published in 2019. I am affiliated with the Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness and Research (CLEAR) Superfund Research Center (P-42), Humanities Center, and the Healthy Urban Waters collaborative at Wayne State. 

I teach classes on organizational communication, leadership communication, small group communication, ethnography and qualitative research methods, project management, and communication theory.

I obtained my Ph.D. from the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University in 2013, and my Masters degree from the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University in 2009. Prior to this, I worked in the news broadcast and public relations fields in India for three and a half years.

You can contact me for collaborative and/or consulting work at: rahul.mitra@wayne.edu. I can also be found at academia.edu, researchgate, google-scholar, and LinkedIn.