Professor Bella Mody
Armory 203A
James de Castro Chair in Global Media Studies
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
1511 University  Ave
University of Colorado UCB 478
Boulder Co. 80309
Bella.Mody@Colorado.edu
Tel: 303-492-1912
Fax: 303-492-0969

Personal web page:
spot.colorado.edu/~mody

Professor Bella Mody joined the SJMC faculty in 2004 as the first James E. deCastro Chair in Global Media Studies. She specializes in the political economy of media in developing countries and in design research on public service applications of communication media. With SJMC graduate students, Mody is preparing a book on how the world’s media cover the crisis in Darfur.  Her previous books include International and Development Communication: a 21st Century Perspective (ed., Sage 2003), The Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication (co-ed., Sage 2001), Telecommunication Politics (co-ed., Lawrence Erlbaum 1995), and Designing Messages for Development Communication (author, Sage 1991). Her research articles have been published in Communication Theory, The Journal of International Communication, The Information Society, The Journal of Communication, Telecommunication Policy, Media Development, Telematics and Informatics, Gazette, International Development Review, Educational Broadcasting International, Communication Research, Journal of Research in Personality, and the Journal of Social Psychology.  Mody coordinated the graduate program in international development communication at Stanford University as an Assistant Professor (1978-1983) and taught at San Francisco State University (Associate Professor 1983-1985).  She has been a professor and administrator at Michigan State University for 19 years prior to moving to the University of Colorado.  Prior to her university career, Mody was a social scientist in India’s space research organization and a J. Walter Thompson advertising writer in Calcutta. Mody has consulted for UN agencies, national governments and nongovernmental organizations on media applications for agriculture, health and education in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Barbados, Ghana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa. Her current focus is HIV-AIDS.  Mody’s academic degrees are from Gujarat University, the University of Pennsylvania and Ranchi University.