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Professor Radhika Parameswaran has won the 2015 Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship from the International Communication Association, the organization announced last week. She will receive the award May 24 at the annual ICA conference in Puerto Rico.

The Teresa Award recognizes individuals whose work has made significant contributions to the development, reach and influence of feminist scholarship in communications.  Parameswaran was selected for her groundbreaking work in the synthesis of postcolonial theory and global feminist studies.

The award was established through an endowment from Yoo Jae Song of Ewha Womans University in South Korea to honor Yoo Jae’s mother, Teresa Kyuguen Cho, a Korean-American pediatrician who died in Philadelphia in 2006 at the age of 83.

Parameswaran also was recognized for her continued leadership in the field, including her roles as student mentor and, most recently, as editor of Communication, Culture & Critique, one of ICA’s flagship journals.

While at the conference, Parameswaran also will present a paper on the panel “Narrations of Rape in Postcolonial India and Beyond: Rape Discourse in Global Contests of Power,” and a refereed paper, “Holding the Nation Accountable on Television: Racism and Colorism in India’s Public Affairs Arena.” She will serve as a chair/discussant for another research panel, and she will attend two meetings in her role as editor of the journal Communication, Culture & Critique.

ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication. It began more than 60 years ago as a small organization of U.S. researchers and now has more than 4,500 members in more than 80 countries.