Associate Professor of Communication Arts (Applied Communication)

Year Joined RCNJ: 2018

Contact Information

• Phone: 201-684-7294
• Email: sdasgupt@ramapo.edu
• Office: A 202
• Office Hours: Tue, 11:00-11:30 AM and 5:30-6:30 PM, Fri. 11:00-11:30 AM and 3:30-4:30 PM

Education:

•  Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Global Public Health and Rory Myers School of Nursing, New York University (Postdoctoral and Transitional Fellowship for Academic Diversity)
• Ph.D in Health Communication, Temple University
• M.A. in Media Studies, Temple University
• M.A. in Journalism, Calcutta University
• B.A. in English Literature, Calcutta University

Courses Offered:

• COMM 204 - MEDIA LITERACY
• COMM 317 - MEDIA AND PERSUASION
• COMM 318 - GLOBAL COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGNS
• COMM 383 - THEORY AND PRACTICE OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION
• COMM 266 - COMMUNICATION RESEARCH METHODS
• COMM 385 - GENDER, GLOBALIZATION AND MEDIA
• COMM 410 - COMMUNICATION GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
• HNRS 220 - HONORS GLOBAL AWARENESS SEMINAR

Publications:

Journal Special Issue Published since 2018:

• Dasgupta, S., Doshi, M., Roy, S. & Sen, R. (2025). Gendered Impact of COVID-19: Communicating Risks, Hope, Opportunities and Challenges (Special issue). Frontiers in Communication: Health Communication.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Published since 2018 :

• Kozan, A. [Ramapo Alumni], Siddaiah, A. & Dasgupta, S. (2026). The impact of linguistic barriers on access to healthcare services and patients’ healthcare-seeking behavior among multilingual patient populations: A case study from India. Frontiers in Communication: Health Communication.
• Dasgupta, S. (2026). Negotiating intersectionality and interdisciplinarity of privilege and oppression: Going beyond the Western feminist paradigm for intimate partner violence mitigation program designing among immigrant populations. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 1–85. Special Issue titled “Spectacles of Control: Femicides, Gendered Violence across Cultures, and the Global Imagination.”
• Dasgupta, S. (2026). Navigating the pandemic and academia: Challenges, disruptions and the road ahead for minority female academics. Women, Gender and Families of Color; Special Issue titled “Care Work for Communities of Color in Higher Education: Reimagining Professional Pathways and Well-Being.
• Melvin, E [Ramapo Alumni]., & Dasgupta, S. (2025). Patterns of Control: A Narrative Review Exploring the Nature and Scope of Technologically Mediated Intimate Partner Violence Among Generation Z Individuals. Sexes, 6(4), 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/sexes6040064
• Sinha, S. & Dasgupta, S. (2025). Exploring Silence, Secrecy, and Coded Language: Ethnographic Encounters with Cisgender Women and Trans Women Involved in Sex Work in Kolkata, India. Social Sciences.
• Dasgupta, S. (2025). “Mentoring in the undergraduate classroom and beyond: Creating a feminist praxis,” Feminist Pedagogy: Vol. 6: Issue 2, Article 8.
• Dasgupta, S., & Melvin, E. [Ramapo Alumni]. (2024). Technology-based intimate partner violence intervention services for generation Z victims of violence. Social Sciences, 13(3), 169.  https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13030169

• Dasgupta, S. (2023). Experiencing, negotiating and challenging stigma in sex work: Examining responses from brothel-based and non-brothel-based sex workers in India. Sexes (Special issue on understanding resilience among people in sex work), 4, 269-284. https://doi.org/10.3390/sexes4020018.
• Dasgupta, S. (2022). Participation, resilience and empowerment: Community-based peer outreach initiative among commercial sex workers in India. Current Politics and Economics of Northern and Western Asia, 31 (4), 305-324.
• Dasgupta, S. (2022). Examination of risk perception, condom compliance and healthcare seeking behavior of cisgender male and transgender sex workers in India. Sexes, 3(4), 492-507. https://doi.org/10.3390/sexes3040036.
• Dasgupta, S., Sinha, S., & Roy, R. (2021). ‘We Are Helpless, Hopeless and Living in Despair’: Impact of COVID-19 on the Overall Health and Well-being, and Participation of the Transgender Community in India. The International Journal of Community and Social Development, 25166026211050743.
• Dasgupta, S. (2021/2006 reprint from Asian Cinema with permission). The New Edge of Indian Cinema: An Analysis of the Treatments of Gender, Sexuality and Matrimony in the New Indian Cinema in English. Critical Collective.
• Dasgupta, S. (2021). Transformative approaches for health promotion and empowerment among commercial sex workers in India. Sexes, 2(2), 202-215.
• Dasgupta, S. & Sinha, S. (2021). Community-based strategies for harm reduction in commercial sex work in India. Sexuality Research and Social Policy (Special issue on harm reduction and decriminalization of sex work).1-13.
• Dasgupta, S. (2021). Narratives of Resistance: Negotiating Agency and Violence in Commercial Sex Work. REFLEKTİF Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (REFLEKTİF Journal of Social Sciences), 2(1), 83-101 (solicited and peer-reviewed).
• Dasgupta, S. (2020). Violence in Commercial Sex Work: A Case Study on the Impact of Violence Among Commercial Female Sex Workers in India and Strategies to Combat Violence. Violence Against Women, 27(15–16), 3056–3073. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801220969881
• Azhar, S., Dasgupta, S., Sinha, S., & Karandikar, S. (2020). Diversity in Sex Work in India: Challenging Stereotypes Regarding Sex Workers. Sexuality & Culture, 1-24.
• Dasgupta, S. (2019). Participation as a Sustainable Approach towards HIV/STI Prevention and Development among Commercial Sex Workers in India. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 27(2), 139-151.

Encyclopedia Entries Published Since 2018:

• Dasgupta, S. (2023). Brothel-Based vs. Transient Sex Workers in India. In Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/44074.
• Dasgupta, S. (2022). The transgender community in India: Health disparities and structural challenges. The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. London: Wiley. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119678816.iehc0852
• Dasgupta, S. (2022). Postcolonialism and the framing of sex work in India. The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. London: Wiley. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119678816.iehc0540

Book Chapters Published since 2018:

• Dasgupta, S. (2027, forthcoming). Community mobilization as an effective health communication strategy among commercial female sex workers. Routledge Handbook of Communication and Media in the Global South. New York: Routledge.
• Dasgupta, S and Begum, S. (2027, forthcoming). Myths, Misperception and Moral Panic: Popular Tropes Surrounding Commercial Sex Work and their Impact. The Oppression of Bodily Politics: Engaging Communication and Liberatory Praxis as Social Justice. New York: Bloomsbury.

• Ichplani, P. & Dasgupta, S. (2027, forthcoming). Subjectivizing Successful Partnerships: Reflections from Community Based Participatory Research in Practice. In: From Transactional to Transformational: Bridging Theory and Practice in Health Communication Partnerships. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

• Dasgupta, S. (2026, forthcoming). Transnational feminism in practice: Rethinking health communication and intimate partner violence across borders. Handbook of Women and Health Communication. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

• Dasgupta, S., Hosbach S. [Ramapo Alumni] & Glasson, M. [Ramapo Alum] (2026, forthcoming). Reimagining Diversity and Inclusion in Postsecondary Education: Critical Communication Pedagogy for the Neurodiverse Students. Handbook of Critical Communication Pedagogy. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

• Dasgupta, S. (2026, forthcoming). Dominant vs. Critical Health Communication in South Asia, pre- and post-pandemic. Handbook of Communication in (pre & post) Pandemics: South Asian Perspectives on Securing Health and Well-Being. New York: Routledge.

• Dasgupta, S., Williams, M.G., Mukherjee, I. & Chakraborty, J. (2026). Gender equity and sustainable development goals: AI for mitigating gender-based violence. Communicating Sustainable Development Goals in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Dasgupta, S. (2025). An intersectional approach towards feminist pedagogy in the hybrid classroom. In: Hernández, H., Munz, S., and Pauly, J. (eds) Queer, Critical, and Women of Color Interventions in Feminist Mentorship Spaces (pp. 233-252). Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.

• Dasgupta, S. (2025). Performing Silence as Strategy and the Articulation of Alternative Perspectives in Commercial Sex Work. Quiet Defiance: The Rhetoric of Silent Protest. Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield.

• Dasgupta, S. (2023). COVID-19, intimate partner violence and immigrant women: SDG 18 and overcoming communication barriers to attain Goal 5. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG18) Communication for All. Singapore: Springer.
• Dasgupta, S. (2022). The Impact ofCOVID-19 on Support-Seeking and Service Uptake Among Immigrant Victims of Intimate Partner Violence. In: Baikady, R., Sajid, S., Przeperski, J., Nadesan, V., Islam, M.R., Gao, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3- 030-68127-2_271-1).
• Dasgupta, S. (2022). Combating Stigma, Violence, and Marginality: Community-Based Health Communication as a Strategy for Change Among Commercial Sex Workers in In: Baikady, R., Sajid, S., Nadesan, V., Przeperski, J., Islam, M.R., Gao, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_177-1)
• Dasgupta, S. (2021). Dialogue as participatory action and empowerment communication: A case- study of commercial female sex workers from a red-light district in India. In J. Jarowski (ed) Advances in Sociology Research (pp.171-192). New York: Nova Science Publishers.
• Dasgupta S. (2018) Impact of the Dominant Discourses in Global Policymaking on Commercial Sex Work on HIV/STI Intervention Projects Among Commercial Sex Workers. In: Servaes J. (eds) Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change (pp. 1075- 1090). Singapore: Springer.
• Dasgupta, S. (2018). The history of commercial sex work during British colonial period in Eastern India. In Selling sex in the city: Prostitution in the world cities, 1600 to the present (pp. 519-537). Lieden: Brill.

Invited Essay Published since 2018:

• Dasgupta, S. (2021). “Re”thinking masculinity: The evolution of the Bollywood hero. Critical Collective.

Other Professional Writing Published since 2018:

• Dasgupta, S. (2018). Enhancing Service Provision for Immigrant Survivors with Limited English Proficiency. Guest blog post for New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA).

Invited Keynote Speaker:

Dasgupta, S. (2022). Examination of risk perception, condom compliance and healthcare seeking behavior of male and transgender sex workers in India: Health disparities, structural challenges and the road ahead. Keynote talk given virtually at Global Community Health Annual Workshop-Second Edition organized by UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education and World Health Organization Collaborating Center, June, 2022. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3kSekZV5dc)

Invited Webinar Presentation:

Dasgupta, S., Clark, R., Ram, A. & Sen, R. (2021). Activism, social justice and intersectionality: Critical pedagogical practices in the communication classroom.
Webinar presented in April, 2021 for National Communication Association (NCA) Activism and Social Justice division.

Awards Received since 2018:

• Activism and Social Justice Community Engagement Award, Activism and Social Justice Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2025.

• Scholar-Activist Award, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2025.

• Monograph of the Year Award, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2025.

• National Chapter of the Year, Rho Phi Chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, Ramapo College of New Jersey (Faculty Advisor), National Communication Association (NCA), 2025.

• Best Published Journal Article Award 2024 from Ethnography division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2024.

• Activism and Social Justice Pedagogy Award from Activism and Social Justice division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2022.
• Scholar-Activist award from Feminist and Gender Studies division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2020.

Grants Received since 2018:

• Foundation Allocation Grant (2026)
• The Educating Character Initiative at the Program for Leadership and Character Grant (2026) [Co-PI)
• Dr. James W. Chesebro Marginalized Community Scholarship Faculty Scholarship Fund (2026)
• Faculty Scholarship Fund (2026)
• Institute for Women’s Leadership Interdisciplinary Grant, Marquette University (2025) [Co-PI]
• Faculty Scholarship Fund (2025)
• Faculty Development Fund (2024)
• The Organization for Feminist Research on Gender and Communication Grant (2023)
• Faculty Development Fund (2023)
• Foundation Allocation Grant (2022)
• James Carey and Urban Communication Foundation Grant (2022)
• Faculty Development Fund (2022)
• Academic Mamas Foundation Grant (2021)
• Foundation Allocation Fund (2021)
• Faculty Development Fund (2021)
• Foundation Allocation Grant (2020)