Ishani Mukherjee, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Communication
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About
Ishani Mukherjee, Ph.D. is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Communication at UIC. She is an intercultural communication, social media marketing, and popular media educator and scholar. Her research focuses on intercultural media/film, culture, religion, and AI, digital advocacy, mobility studies, and South Asia. Dr. Mukherjee has authored and co-authored multiple articles, a book, and is an Honors College Faculty Fellow and Instructor at UIC. She is on the editorial board of the Florida Journal of Communication. Her recent research publication, “Poetics and Power in Phagwa: Media Representation, Cultural Identity, and Religious Play in Trinidad’s Festival of Colours,” explores media representations of the festival of colors and Caribbean identity drawing on cultural performance theories that connect observable communicative practices to cultural performances and discuss the implications of culture, religious identity, and digital media in acts of celebration. Her research and teaching have been recognized with the Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award, Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award, and Honoring Our Professor’s Excellence Award (UIC). Dr. Mukherjee is a dedicated educator and experienced researcher who values teaching and collaborating with student-partners in face-to-face and digital learning spaces.
Selected Publications
Williams, M. G., & Mukherjee, I. (2024). Poetics and Power in Phagwa: Media Representation, Cultural Identity, and Religious Play in Trinidad’s Festival of Colours. Journal of Media and Religion, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2024.2357975
Mukherjee, I. (2021). Virus, Violence and [In]Visible Women: #LockDownMeinLockUp and Embodied Resistance During Covid-19. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 22(12), 25-61. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol22/iss12/3
Mukherjee, I. & Williams, M.G. (2020). Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films: Interculturing Cinema. Lexington Books.
Williams, M. G., Mukherjee, I., & Utsey, C. (2019). Mobility and affect in the #deletuber mo(ve)ment. Convergence. DOI: 10.1177/1354856519883739
Mukherjee, I. (2017). The social age of ‘it’s not a private problem’: Case study of ethical and privacy concerns in a digital ethnography of South Asian blogs against IPV. In M. Zimmer and K. Kinder-Kurlanda, (Eds.), Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges (Digital Formations), pp. 203-212. New York: Peter Lang.
Mukherjee, I. (2011). The masala of globalism: Repositioning ‘dis/placement’ in the films of Mira Nair. Studies in South Asian Film and Media, 2(2), 85-106. DOI: 10.1386/safm.2.2.85_1
Jones, S. G. & Mukherjee, I. (2010). iThou: Ethics, friendship, and the Internet. In R. Fortner & M. Fackler (Eds.), Ethics and Evil in the Public Sphere: Media, Universal Values and Global Development. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Education
PhD, University of Illinois Chicago, Communication
MA, Northern Illinois University, Communication Studies