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Photos taken by Maya Krishnan in July 2023 in Chennai, India and November 2025 in Delhi, India.
Dissertation Project (ongoing)
Viral Violence: How and Why Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Incidents in India Receive Mass Media Attention
Ethnographic fieldwork ongoing (September 2025 to April 2026).
Consortium for Analytics on Data-Driven-Decision-Making (CanD3) Fellowship 2024-2025
Fellow and Deputy Fellows Committee Chair in year-long statistical and demographic data and analysis training program. Participated in week-long data visualization workshop at Florida State University; won first place in 'Dragon's Den' data visualization competition using original and hand-coded newspaper article data (see below).
Project: "National Politics and Identity Discourses in GBV Coverage in the Indian-English News Press (2018-2024)" (ongoing). Dataset consists of 500+ articles from six of India's largest English-language newspapers across the political spectrum (right-wing to left-wing). Ongoing.
Paper 1: "Mapping Femicide Coverage in Indian-English Newspapers" (2018-2023), presented in October 2024 for Data Visualization workshop
Paper 2: "Demographics of GBV Media Coverage in India: Case, Victim, and Perpetrator Profiles" Ongoing (2025)
Visualizations track ages of victims in female homicide coverage across the political spectrum of Indian news outlets. Older women (ages 50+) are over-represented relative to younger age groups, and female homicide victims, estimated from NCRB crime statistics.
Why visualize age?
While media representation is often not necessarily statistically representative, indeed, media representation is well-established to be highly unequal; discrepancies between crime statistics and representations may have meaningful implications. Research has shown that increased and higher-quality media coverage of GBV has tangible implications for survivors, such as helpline usage and prosocial behavior among survivors. Moreover, the over-representation of older age groups in female homicide coverage may point to higher coverage of certain kinds of crimes (financial or property-related) as well as a gap in resource provision and support to certain age groups of women, increasing vulnerability to violent crimes.
Translation from Tamil to English: “Unsafe workplace environment? Sexual harassment? For legal aid, get in touch – All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) [w/ social media icons]”
Chennai, India, July 2023
Publications and Projects
"Navigating the Squeeze - Women’s and Anti-Gender-Violence NGOs, Shrinking Civic Space, and Differentiated Resilience in Urban India" (ongoing)
"Who Gets a Story: Honor, Culture, Communalism, and the Framing of Gender-Based Homicide in the Indian Press" (ongoing)
"Effects of Media and Internet Access Autonomy on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Attitudes and Behavior in India" (ongoing).
“Demographics of GBV Media Coverage in India: Location, Victim, and Perpetrator Profiles” (ongoing).
"National Politics and Identity Discourses in GBV Coverage in the Indian-English News Press (2018-2024)" American Sociological Association Annual Conference, August 2023.
Krishnan, Maya (2022) “Caste-ing Gender Violence in The Times of India, 1970-2020” Thesis.
(Supervisor: Dr. Constantine Nakassis)
Book Reviews
(Forthcoming) 2026. Gender and Development. "City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transit" by Romit Chowdhury. Book Review.
Photos taken by Maya Krishnan, July 2023.
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