Anantha S. Babbili (Ph.D., The University of Iowa) is Professor of Communication and Media at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA, who teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in The First Amendment and Ethical Issues in Media, Internatio...More
Anantha S. Babbili (Ph.D., The University of Iowa) is Professor of Communication and Media at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA, who teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in The First Amendment and Ethical Issues in Media, International Leadership, Global Media & International Communication, Media and Society, and Press & the Presidential Campaign. He has taught in, and led programs in journalism and media studies for more than two decades as Chair and Dean at Texas Christian University (TCU), Middle Tennessee State University, respectively, and later served as Provost for three years at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. He served as Rogers Chair in Journalism and New Information Technologies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada and lectured for TCU at the University, Oriel and Hilda colleges at Oxford University, UK. He is the co-author of the book, An Ethics Trajectory (University of Illinois Press), and has published his research in several books including Communication Ethics and Universal Values (Sage), Critical Issues in Media (Sage), Bosnia by Television (British Film Institute), Political Communication (Sage), Mass Media in the Middle East (Greenwood), The Press and the State (Waveland Press) and his autobiographical essay in Biographical Passages: Essays in Victorian and Modernist Biography (University of Missouri Press) among others. Babbili was the editor of Journalism & Communication Monographs (AEJMC) for six years. Prior to his doctoral studies at Iowa, Babbili earned his M.A. in Journalism with secondary emphasis in International Relations from University of Oklahoma, his two undergraduate degrees, one in biological sciences and the other in journalism, from India's Osmania University. A former journalist and media professional, Babbili also published his research in journals such as Media, Cultur & Society, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Newspaper Research Journal, and the International Third World Studies Journal. He served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, and Journalism Studies. He was also on the advisory board of the London School of Economics' International Bibliography of Social Sciences. He is a graduate of the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education, Harvard University and is the winner of the Texas Professor of the Year award from the Carnegie Foundation. Besides English, Babbili is fluent in South Asian languages of Telugu, Hindi and Urdu.
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Communication and Media Studies
