Professor Professor Shani Orgad

Please note Professor Orgad will be on research leave during the 2024/25 academic year. See term dates.

Shani Orgad is Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.

Professor Orgad’s research interests include gender, feminism, and media; representations, inequality and contemporary culture, representations of suffering and migration, new media, narrative and media, media and everyday life, media and globalisation, and ethnographic research methods.

Professor Orgad gained a bachelor’s degree in Media and Communications with Sociology and Anthropology from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, following which she obtained both a Master's and PhD in Media and Communications at LSE.

Professor Orgad has won numerous teaching awards including a 2019 LSE Teaching Excellence Prize, a 2018 LSE Excellence in Education Award, as well as the LSE Innovator Award.

Expertise

Gender, feminism and media; motherhood; globalisation; media representations; narrative; ethnographic research methods