Deepa

Deepa Kumar

Deepa
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Indian-American academic

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Deepa Kumar
Communications
#1299
World Rank
#1974
Historical Rank
#648
USA Rank
Linguistics
#1961
World Rank
#2480
Historical Rank
#537
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Deepa Kumar is an Indian American scholar and activist. She is a professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. Kumar has been referred to by the Media Education Foundation as “one of the nation’s foremost scholars on Islamophobia" and by the New York Times as "a world-renowned scholar of Islamophobia and race." She is a leader in the Rutgers faculty union, the AAUP-AFT. When she was president, the union fought for gender and race equity, and in 2019 won a contract that AFT president, Randi Weingarten, said “will inspire higher education professionals across [the] country to fight and win their own battles to improve their lives – and the lives of others – in the streets and at the bargaining table.”

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