Sumita S. Chakravarty

Sumita S. Chakravarty is a media studies scholar known for her research on media theory, migration and globalization, Indian popular cinema and national identity, digital culture, and the history and philosophy of media technologies. At The New School in New York City, Chakravarty was the founding chair of the Culture and Media department at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts from 2000 to 2008, and later the Associate Dean of Media Studies from 2011 to 2014. She is currently Professor Emeritus at the School of Media Studies in The New School.

Chakravarty leads the Media+Migration Lab (M2Lab), an online platform dedicated to interdisciplinary projects studying the connections between migration and its mediation. The platform's foundational project is [https://migrationmapping.org Migration Mapping], a living digital archive for media and migration.

Chakravarty is the author of the book ''National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947–1987'' (University of Texas Press, 1993; Oxford University Press, 1996) and editor for ''The Enemy Within: The Films of Mrinal Sen'' (Flicks Books, 2000). She has also written numerous articles for academic journals and anthologies, such as "Migrationmapping" in ''Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data'' (MIT Press, 2021). Provided by Wikipedia