Cherian George

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Cherian George is an academic researching media and politics, especially freedom of expression and censorship, and hate propaganda and polarisation. He is the author of Fighting Polarisation: Shared Communicative Spaces in Divided Democracies (Polity, 2025). His previous books include Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy (MIT Press, 2016), which Publishers’ Weekly named one of the best 100 books of the year; and Red Lines: Political Cartoons and the Struggle against Censorship (MIT Press, 2021), honoured by the Association of American Publishers as one of the year’s three top scholarly books in both the Media & Cultural Studies and Graphic Nonfiction categories.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University

Education

  • 2003 
    Stanford University, PhD, Communication
  • 1990 
    Columbia University, MsC, Journalism
  • 1989 
    Cambridge University, BA (Hons), Social & Political Sciences

Publications

  • 2016
    Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Intolerance and its Threat to Democracy, MIT Press
  • 2012
    Freedom From The Press: Journalism and State Power in Singapore, NUS Press
  • 2006
    Contentious Journalism and the Internet: Towards Democratic Discourse in Malaysia and Singapore, NUS Press and University of Washington Press

Honours

Fellow of the International Communication Association

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