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 Fall 2004 as the first James E. deCastro Chair in Global Media.  She specializes in the political economy of media in developing countries and in design research on public service applications of communication media.  “National Journalisms, Globalized Crises: Geopolitical Explanations of Darfur” (Lexington, under preparation) showcases the work of more than 20 students and faculty at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Ongoing research addresses the sociology of global knowledge production (patterns of doctoral dissertation production on Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in Journalism and Mass Communication departments at U.S. universities) and the geopolitics of national press coverage of globalized crises. Her 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 Global Media and Communication, 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.  Future research includes an update of the 1991 message design research book with the Research and Knowledge Division of the BBC World Service Trust.  Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Mody was a professor and administrator at Stanford University, San Francisco State University and Michigan State University for over 25 years, a social scientist in India’s space research organization for five years, and a J. Walter Thompson Company advertising writer in Calcutta.  She has consulted for universities, UN agencies, national governments and nongovernmental organizations on media applications for agriculture, health and education in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Mody’s academic degrees are from Gujarat University, the University of Pennsylvania and Ranchi University.