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
The catalytic power of this Summit in bringing together those who are devoting their lives to pushing back and working to confront, understand and work towards solutions around hate in our society is a noble and difficult task. The Summit not only energized those who attended but led to connecting the dots in a global network of those doing this work. The stories of the victims of hate were painful to witness but their courage in coming forward was inspirational. Those who attended left energized with the hope that by working together solutions can be forged.
