Expert in cultural studies, political communication, and religion and media
Karim Karim is a professor and a former director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication. He is a member of the boards of the Canadian Journal of Communication and Global Media Journal – Canadian Edition. He is an associate of migration and diaspora studies at the Centre for European Studies at Carleton University and is also cross-appointed to Carleton’s journalism programme and Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture. Karim’s publications have been cited extensively and have been translated into several languages. He won the inaugural Robinson Book Prize of the Canadian Communication Association in 2001 for his book, Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence. He also co-edited a special issue of the Global Media Journal commemorating the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication (2009) on 'Race, Ethnicity, and Intercultural Communication'.