research team – Rahul Mitra

Award and Presentations at 2025 International Conference Association in Denver, CO

I had a very productive and stimulating 5 days at the annual conference of the International Communication Association in Denver, CO. It was wonderful to catch up with old friends, make new ones, and hang out with Wayne State Department of Communication alumni and students! I’m especially grateful to the wonderful folk at ICA’s newly formed Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division for awarding me the Top Faculty Paper Award. ❤️🙏🏾

New Publication: “Graduate students’ resilience and resistance: Exploring adaptive-transformative possibilities in higher education”

This paper probably takes the prize for “Longest time between study design and publication” – a whopping THIRTEEN years! 😁 Nevertheless, the issues we investigated still remain crucial, despite a “minor” event like a global pandemic happening in the meantime, and perhaps a key reason I’m excited to see it in print is because it’s finally out there! That, and the amazing collaboration with Wayne State Department of Communication alum Kelsey Mesmer (Asst. Professor at St. Louis University) and Patrice M. Buzzanell. 🩷

Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Tour of CLEAR lab spaces at the C.S. Mott Center

Earlier today, the Research Translation team that I lead at CLEAR partnered with the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development (led by CLEAR’s Project 4 PI Dr. Gil Mor), to host around 35 high school students and community members as part of the 19th annual Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit conference.

Research Presentations and Mentoring at 2023 National Communication Association conference

It was a busy but fun conference at the National Communication Association this past weekend sharing research, (re)connecting with wonderful colleagues and friends, and learning new skills and knowledge! 💙

Allison Lucas and I shared our paper on how the US National Climate Assessment report invokes climate change risks and organizational responses (with coauthors Christine Nyawaga and Sandaruwan Subasinghe).

New White Paper: How Asian Americans Enact Resilience Against #COVIDracism

I’m privileged to be on a powerhouse team with my WSU colleagues Drs. Stephanie Tong and Elizabeth Stoycheff on a new project that examines racist harassment, both online and offline, against Asians and Asian Americans, related to the novel coronavirus pandemic, and we just released a White Paper that is FREE for download.

(Re)Crafting Narrative Fragments of Personal Sense-Making during COVID-19: Pieces from our 2020 MCQ Forum Essay

For the August 2020 issue of Management Communication Quarterly, the journal has published an OPEN-ACCESS forum essay where a multicultural team of organizational communication scholars, from different universities, reflected on our collective sense-making of the historic COVID-19 pandemic. The essay builds on personal narratives from each of us on different questions posed by the lead researcher, to create a beautiful mosaic from our words, ideas and feelings. Below, I try to another iteration, by crafting together my fragmented narratives from an earlier, unedited version of the essay, to re-present those forms of expression, to create a new/old essay rooted in praxis. Thank you for reading.

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