Shiv Ganesh

Shiv Ganesh (PhD, Purdue University 2000), is a Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. His research lies at the intersection of global, organizational and environmental communication studies and specializes in the communicative, global, and technological dimensions of the collective construction, negotiation, and destruction of public goods. Under these rubrics, he has done research on digital social movements, environmental justice, contentious politics, volunteering, sustainability and supply chains, indigeneity and displacement, digitization and, increasingly, artificial intelligence. Prof Ganesh moved to Boulder from the University of Texas at Austin, before which he was at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand. He has more than 80 publications to his credit, and his work has been funded by research foundations in Aotearoa New Zealand, Sweden, the United States, and India. He is a Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA) and a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association (NCA), and is a recipient of the NCA’s Robert Cox Award in Environmental Communication and Civic Engagement, as well as ICA’s Fredric Jablin Award for Outstanding Contributions to Organizational Communication. His articles and papers have won multiple awards from both ICA and NCA from such divisions and interest groups as Environmental Communication, International and Intercultural Communication, Organizational Communication, and Public Relations. He is also a former editor of NCA’s Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. At CU Boulder, Prof Ganesh directs the Global Social Problems Lab, based in the Communication Department.