Scholarly Publications
- Stephens, K.K., Jahn, J., Fox, S., Charoensap-Kelly, P., Mitra, R., Waters, E., Xie, B., & Meisenbach, R. (2020). Radically changing work as we know it: Organizational scholars contributing to our future by collectively sensemaking around COVID-19. Management Communication Quarterly, 34, 426-457. (Available for open access)
- Mitra, R. (2020). Organizing for sustainability: Including and engaging diverse stakeholders. In M.L. Doerfel, & J.L. Gibbs, (Eds.), Organizing inclusion: Moving diversity from demographics to communication processes (pp. 180-199). New York: Routledge. (Download pre-print version)
- Mesmer, K., Aniss, M., & Mitra, R. (2020). Naturalizing environmental injustice: How privileged residents make sense of Detroit’s water shutoffs. In C. Schmitt, C.S. Thomas, & T.R. Castor (Eds.)., Water, rhetoric and social justice: A critical confluence, (pp. 149-170). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Download pre-print version) Awarded the Stephen P. Depoe Book Chapter Award by the National Communication Association’s Environmental Communication Division.
Teaching Resources
- Mitra, R. (2020). Reading List: Urban water (in)security and social construction of risk (2 credit graduate seminar). Retrieved from: http://www.detroitwaterstories.wordpress.com (Download reading list here)
- Mitra, R. (2019). Environmental Justice and Inclusion. Teaching module included in 2 credit interdisciplinary BIO 7310 Urban Sustainability, at Wayne State University, Detroit MI. (View slides here)
Presentations at Academic Conferences
- Mesmer, K., Aniss, M.A., & Mitra, R. (2019, Nov). Naturalizing environmental injustice: How privileged residents make sense of Detroit’s water shutoffs. Presented as part of competitively selected paper session to the National Communication Association, in Baltimore, MD.
- Mitra, R. (2019, Nov). The “Detroit Water Stories” project. Presented to the Presidential Spotlight Session on “Communication and Surviving Environmental Racism” at the National Communication Association at Baltimore, MD.
- Mitra, R., Husnick, K., Aniss, M.A., Most, S., & COM 7365. (2018, Nov). Playing with urban/suburban narratives of water access in Metro Detroit: “Uneasy storytelling” as (auto)ethnographic inquiry. Presented to the National Communication Association, in Salt Lake City, UT.
- An earlier version of this essay was also presented at a Brown Bag talk organized by the Humanities Center at Wayne State University on Sep 19, 2018. (See the video on YouTube)
- Mitra, R. (2017, Nov). Organizing for sustainability: Including and engaging diverse stakeholders. Presented as part of competitively selected preconference at the National Communication Association at Dallas, TX.
Invited Scholarly Talks
- Mitra, R. (2020, May). Rethinking both “public” and “scholarship” in “Public Scholarship”: (Ongoing) Lessons from the Detroit Water Stories Project. Presented to the Institute for Social Change 2020, University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Program in Public Scholarship at Ann Arbor, MI. (Keynote; view slides here)
- Mitra, R. (2020, May). Multiple pathways for effective research translation: An unstructured conversation. Presented to the Institute for Social Change 2020, University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Program in Public Scholarship at Ann Arbor, MI.
- Mitra, R. (2020, Apr 29). Crisis and resilience: From lack of water affordability to COVID-19. (Graduate seminar). University of Texas at San Antonio, TX.
- Mitra, R. (2020, Apr 14). Media, fieldwork and engagement: The “Detroit Water Stories” project. (Graduate seminar). Bowling Green State University, at Bowling Green, OH.
- Mitra, R. (2020, Jan 24). Organizing for social-ecological resilience: Power and resistance in Detroit’s ongoing water insecurity. Presented to the Department of Communication, University of South Florida, at Tampa FL
- Mitra, R. (2020, Jan 22). Public relations for grassroots community resistance: Lessons from the “Detroit Water Stories” project. Presented to the School of Communication & Journalism, University of Oregon, at Eugene OR.
- Mitra, R. (2020, Jan 8). Engaged scholarship for community resilience: The “Detroit Water Stories” project. Presented to the Detroit Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Chapter, 2020, at Authority Health, Detroit MI.