Book Chapters

Devendra Sharma (2012). "Indigenous Performance Art Forms as Spaces for Social Reflection and Participatory Communication in Directed Social Change" in Srinivas R. Melkote (Ed.) Development Communication in Directed Social Change: A Reappraisal of Theory and Practice. Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre and Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University.

I was invited to contribute this book chapter in this State of the Discipline edited book, bringing together articles from eminent scholars in the field of communication for social change.

Devendra Sharma (2007). "Catalyzing Social Reform Through Participatory Folk Performances in Rural India" in Larry Frey and Kevin Carragee (Eds.) Communication Activism: Media and Performance Activism (pp. 285-314). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (with Lynn M. Harter, Saumya Pant, Arvind Singhal, and Yogita Sharma)

The above book was awarded as the Outstanding Edited Scholarly Book of the Year in 2008 by the Applied Communication Division at the National Communication Association Convention, San Diego, CA, USA

Devendra Sharma (2004). "Air Cover and Ground Mobilization: Integrating Entertainment-Education Broadcasts With Community Listening and Service Delivery in India" in Arvind Singhal, Michael Cody, Everett M. Rogers, and Miguel Sabido (Eds.) Entertainment-Education and Social Change: History, Research, and Practice (pp. 351-376). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (with Arvind Singhal, Michael J. Papa, and Kim Witte)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Devendra Sharma (2013). "Nautanki Performances: Creating Sites for Community Connection." Text and Performance Quarterly (in review).

The above article is derived from a refereed academic paper awarded as one of the Top Three Contributed Papers in Performance Studies at the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, TX, 2006.

Devendra Sharma (2006). "Entertainment-Education and Social Change: The Communicative Dynamics of Social Capital." Journal of Creative Communications, 1(1): 1-18. (with Arvind Singhal, Michael J. Papa, Saumya Pant, Tracey Worrell, Nithya Muthuswamy, and Kim Witte)

Devendra Sharma (2007). "Participatory Photography as Theory, Method and Praxis: Analyzing an Entertainment-Education Project in India." Critical Arts, 21(1): 212-227. (with Arvind Singhal, Lynn M. Harter, and Ketan Chitnis)

Refereed Papers Presented at Academic Conferences

Devendra Sharma (2013), "Community Performance Traditions as Sites for Connection and Holistic Social Change." Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association Convention, Washington, D.C., USA

Devendra Sharma (2011), "Giving Voice to a Marginalized Performance Tradition in Contemporary Society." Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, USA

Devendra Sharma (2009), "Encoding/Decoding: Indigenous Performances as Tools of Change in the Discourse of HIV/AIDS." Health Communication Division, National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL, USA

Devendra Sharma (2008), "Communicating for Social Impact: Performances for Community Friendships and Social Change in India and USA." Global Communication and Social Change Division, International Communication Association Convention, Montreal, Canada

Devendra Sharma (2008), "Folk Performances in the Service of Community: Applying Nautanki to Strengthen Community and Cultural Connection." Performance Studies Division, Western States Communication Association Convention, Broomfield, CO, USA

Devendra Sharma (2008), "I Have to Watch Friends: Use of Global Media to Construct and Articulate Self-Identities by Young Indian Women." Media Studies Interest Group, Western States Communication Association Convention, Broomfield, CO, USA

Devendra Sharma (2007), "Nautanki vs. Mass Media: Exploring the Role of Community Folk Performances in the Age of New Media Forms and Technology." Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL, USA

Devendra Sharma (2006), "Nautanki Performances: Creating Sites for Community Connection and Social Action." Top Three Contributed Papers in Performance Studies at the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, TX, USA

Devendra Sharma (2004), "This is an Alien Land: Increasing alienation of folk performing forms from the Indian cultural landscape in post-colonial times, and probable future directions." National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL, USA

Devendra Sharma (2004), "Mutual Diffusion: Balancing the Cross-Fertilization of Ideas with the Preservation of Cultural Identity." National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL, USA

Devendra Sharma (2004), "Using Folk Performances to Communicate Health Messages: A Case Study in Rural India." International Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, USA

Devendra Sharma (2004), "The Politics of Popular: Intended and Unintended Politics Connected with the Use of Terms 'Folk' versus 'Popular,' and their Different Interpretations in Different Cultural and Intellectual Contexts." Midwest Chapter for the Society for Ethnomusicology Conference, University of Kentucky, KY, USA

Devendra Sharma (2003), "Performing Swang and Nautanki: Dialogic of Space, Sound, Body, and Language." National Communication Association Convention, Miami Beach, FL, USA

Devendra Sharma (2003), "Adapting Swang-Nautanki to New Conditions: Applying Folk Performances as a Communication Strategy for Social Change." 32nd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA

Ph.D. Dissertation

Devendra Sharma (2006). "Performing Nautanki: Popular Community Folk Performances as Sites of Dialogue and Social Change." Ph.D. Dissertation submitted to Ohio University

Additional Articles and Reports

Devendra Sharma (2011). "The Magical Communication Strategy: Working with PCI to use Indigenous Live Community Performances in Combination with Mass Media for Positive Social Impact." Pages 21-23 in Population Communication International (PCI)-Media Impact's 25th Anniversary Report. New York: PCI-Media Impact.

Devendra Sharma (2007). "Intervening with the Indigenous: An Action-Based Folk Media Campaign and Research Project on HIV/AIDS in Rural Bihar." Executive Campaign Research Report submitted to the United Nations Joint Program for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). New Delhi: UNAIDS. (with Arvind Singhal, Centre for Media Studies, Brij Lok Madhuri, and Saakar Foundation)