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Professor,
Dept. of Telecommunications.
Radio-TV Center, Room 325
(812) 855-0954
hsawhney 'at' indiana.edu
Editor-in-Chief, The Information Society
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I like to work on the intersections of the profound
and the pragmatic where complex reality disrupts the tidy
logic of established thought and forces new ways of thinking.
I was drawn towards Telecommunications because it offers
many such points of intersection.
Over the last couple of years I have been dwelling on issues
related to universal access. They are interesting because
they evoke ideals of democracy and equality which have to
be reconciled with the realities of the situation on the
ground. I have also been studying the interaction between
values and the network development process. I am particularly
interested in how metaphors shape our thinking about networks.
Lately, I have been pondering about problems of coordination
and control in a modern society. While interests shift in
terms of topics, I tend to stay with issues which involve
uncertainties of the future, our collective imagination
which provides impetus for action in the face of these uncertainties,
and the cultural values which color our imaginations.
In my spare time, I try and stay away from both the profound
and the pragmatic -- a difficult feat. I find moments of
such liberation while playing tennis, exercising in the
gym, or just simply going on long walks.
Faculty Positions:
- Professor, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University,
July
'07 to date
- Associate Professor, Department of Telecommunications,
Indiana
University, July '97 to June '07
- Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications,
Indiana
University, July '91 to June '97
Visiting Faculty:
- Constance F. and Arnold C. Pohs Visiting Associate
Professor of
Telecommunications, Dept. of Communication Studies, University
of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Winter (Spring) 2004
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Information Systems,
London School of
Economics, Michaelmas (Fall) 2005
- Visiting Scholar, Stanhope Center for Communications
Policy Research,
London, Fall 2005
Industry Experience:
- Marketing Executive, Escorts Group, New Delhi,1984-85
- Advertisting Executive, J. Walter Thompson, Bombay,
1985-86
Education:
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Birla Institute
of Technology, Mesra, India, 1982
- M.B.A., Marketing, XLRI, Jamshedpur, India,
1984
- M.A., Communication, State University of New
York at Buffalo, 1987
- Ph.D., Communication, University of Texas at
Austin, 1991
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Teaching interests: Telecommunications technology and
policy, international telecommunications, and management
of creativity.
- Research interests: Telecommunications infrastructure
planning and policy, evolution of telecommunications networks,
universal service, and the use of metaphors in the design
of new technological systems.
Selected Publications:
- Sawhney, H. & Jayakar, K. (2007). Universal Access.
Annual Review of
Information Science and Technology 41, 159-221.
- Jayakar, K. and Sawhney, H. (2007) Universal access
in the information
economy: Tracking innovations abroad. Washington, DC:
Benton
Foundation.
- Sawhney, H. & Wang, X. (2006). Battle of systems:
Learning from
erstwhile gas-electricity and telegraph-telephone battles.
Prometheus24(3), 235-256.
- Sawhney, H. & Lee, S. (2005). Arenas of innovation:
Understanding new
configurational potentialities of communication technologies.
Media,
Culture & Society, 27(3), 391-414.
- Sawhney, H. (2003). Wi-Fi
networks and the rerun of the cycle. Info, 5(6), 25-33.
- Guest Editor, The Information Society, Special
Issue on Universal Service (Summer 2000).
- Sawhney, H., & Barnett, G. (Eds.). (1999). Progress
in communication sciences, Vol. XV: Advances in telecommunications.
Stamford, CT: Ablex.
Courses:
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