Sarah Sharma wins the 2023-24 Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award

ICCIT Director Sarah Sharma has received the 2023-2024 U of T Mississauga Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award, which recognizes outstanding career achievement in research and scholarly activity by faculty members at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

Dr. Sharma is full professor of media theory at UTM and Director of the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology. Her work is fundamental to the emerging, intersectional field of feminist media studies. Her first book, In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 2014), develops power-chronography as a framework for describing how media technologies produce social inequity by manipulating time. Her edited collection (with Rianka Singh), Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke UP 2022) reframes and extends McLuhan's legacy to the social problems of the 21st century. Her more recent work considers a problematic that she has coined "the politics of exit," and her forthcoming book, tentatively titled Broken Machine Feminism (Duke UP) treats technology and the gendered politics of inclusion, escape, and repair.