Sangita Shresthova is the Director of Henry Jenkins’ Media Activism & Participatory Politics (MAPP) project based at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at University of Southern California (http://ypp.dmlcentral.net/). Her work focuses on the intersection between popular culture, performance, new media, politics, and globalization. Sangita holds a Ph.D. from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures and MSc. degrees from MIT and LSE. Her book on Bollywood dance and globalization (Is It All About Hips?) was published by SAGE Publications in 2011. Drawing on her background in Indian dance and new media is also the founder of Bollynatyam’s Global Bollywood Dance Project. Here recent research has focused on issues of storytelling and surveillance among American Muslim youth and the achievements and challenges faced by Invisible Children pre-and-post Kony2012.

Sangita Shresthova, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism | Email: sangitashresthova@gmail.com | Twitter: @sangitacivics