Parameswari Mukherjee

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Parameswari Mukherjee

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Office Hours

MW 11 am - 12 pm and by appointment

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSUD). I teach a variety of communication courses including health communication (cross listed in the Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences Department and the Department of Communication Studies at MSUD), presentational speaking, and fundamentals of oral communication. My program of research borrows from health and organizational communication scholarship to examine the intersections of culture, health, globalization and community participation in marginalized communities.

Research Interests

    Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Community Participation and Dialogue

Teaching Interests

    Health Communication, Health Inequity and Health Disparity, Applied Communication Research Methods, Communication Theory, Interpersonal Communication, Introduction to Organizational Communication, Fundamentals of Oral Communication and Presentational Speaking

Education

PhD in Health Communication

University of South Florida

MA in Health Communication

University of Cincinnati

Other in Journalism

NSHM Institute of Media and Communication

BS in Geography

University of Calcutta

Personal Website

https://parameswarimukherjee.com/

Published Works

    Mukherjee, P. (2026). “They [the rats] also exist. Why should I poison them?”: Decolonizing Local-Global Health Interventions for Remediating Water Insecurity in Rural West Bengal. Health Communication (Taylor & Francis)https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2026.2684318.. Mukherjee, P. (2026). “Stories Capture the Details.”: Centering Narratives in Water-Insecure Communities in the Global South. Health Communication (Taylor & Francis)https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2026.2683573. Mukherjee, P., Basnyat, I., Mukherjee, P. (2025). Health communication and social justice: A global south perspective. (). . Mukherjee, P., Basu, A. (2025). “Water is life…the problem is there’s only one tap”: A culture-centered and necrocapitalist inquiry to communicating health and water . Communication Monographshttps://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2024.2420962. Mukherjee, P., Ivancic, S. (2024). Safe water as empowerment, structural dilemma, and savior: Conflicting discourses about arsenic groundwater contamination in West Bengal.. Journal of Applied Communicationhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2024.2345211.