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pant Saumya Pant

Director, Bachelor of Arts in International Studies
Visiting Instructor, Women’s Studies


(740) 593-1853
pant@ohio.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Communication Studies, Ohio University
MA, Ohio University
MA, Pune University
BA, Indraprastha College, Delhi University

Professional Experience
Joined Ohio University in 2007 as Director of the Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (BAIS), Visiting Instructor in Women’s Studies, and Adjunct Faculty, School of Communication Studies; Faculty member in College of Communication and Media Studies at Zayed University in United Arab Emirates in 2006; Adjunct faculty member in Communication Studies at Ohio University, 2002-2004; Program Manager, Center for Media Studies in New Delhi, India, 1997.

Interests
Gender and development, health communication, mass communication and social change.

Recent Publications
“Entertainment-Education and Possibilities for Second-order Social Change” with Singhal, A. and Rao, N. in Journal of Creative Communications 3(1), 2006; “Entertainment-education and Social Change: The Communicative Dynamics of Social Capital” with Singhal, A., Pappa M.J., Sharma, D., Worrell, T., Muthuswamy, N., & Witte K. in Journal of Creative Communications 1(1), 2006; “How young women negotiate entertainment-education texts and enact empowerment in private and public spaces in Black Praxis Journal, special issue, 2004.

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