Meenakshi Gigi Durham

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Meenakshi Gigi Durham is an Indian professor of communication studies and writer. Durham was born in Mangalore, India but moved to the United States and then Canada at a young age. She is a full professor at the University of Iowa, with a joint appointment in the journalism and mass communication departments. She was previously a Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development. She was also the Associate Faculty, Director of the Obermann Center of Advanced Studies, and she is a member of the board of directors for the Project of Rhetoric of Inquiry.

Durham sits on the editorial boards of the ''Journal of Communication'', ''Feminist Media Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication,'' ''Communication, Culture & Critique'' and ''Sexualization, Media, and Society''. From 2007-2016, she was executive editor of the ''Journal of Communication Inquiry.''