Arvind Singhal Ph.D.
Ph.D., Samuel Shirley & Edna Holt Marston Professor, Director, Social Justice Initiative, Department of Communication, The University of Texas at El Paso
2022
Dr. Arvind Singhal is the Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston Endowed Professor of Communication and the Director of Social Justice Initiative at The University of Texas at El Paso. He is also appointed as the William J. Clinton Distinguished Fellow at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, AR and Professor 2 in the Faculty of Business Administration at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences in Norway. His teaching and research interests include narratives for social and behavioral change, the positive deviance approach, organizing for change, and liberating interactional structures for groupware. He is author of several seminal scholarly texts and articles on entertainment-education, including (Singhal & Rogers, 1999—winner of the 2000 National Communication Association Distinguished Book Award); (Singhal, Cody, Rogers, & Sabido, 2004); (Lacayo & Singhal, 2008), and (Wang & Singhal 2016—winner of the 2017 Editor’s Choice Award from the American Journal of Public Health). He also was the recipient of the First Everett M. Rogers Award for Outstanding Contributions to Entertainment-Education in 2005 by the University of Southern California’s Norman Lear Center and Hollywood’s Screenwriter’s Guild. He has advised, implemented, and conducted research on the narrative potential of the entertainment-education strategy in several dozens of countries, incorporating positively deviant storylines for social and behavior change.
At the Summit
To me, Eradicate Hate was the most important gathering of 2021 for those of us who work on issues related to domestic extremism and organized hate. The Summit uniquely combined a variety of perspectives, including experts, civil society representatives, politicians and policymakers, and the families and loved ones of victims. Eradicate Hate has the important mission of standing against the rising tide of hate and extremism in our society, and it’s an honor to be able to support this mission.
