I’m an Assistant Professor of Equity Studies (she/they) in the MAIS program and am based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). While I’m trained as a political scientist (Canadian Politics and Gender & Politics), my research and collaborations are interdisciplinary. I take a critical approach to citizenship, as I focus on the politics of race and racism, security and relational securitization in and across custodial/carceral spaces, and the implications for decolonial politics in settler colonial states.
Since joining Athabasca University (AU) in December 2018, I’ve been teaching three core courses within the MAIS program (MAIS 602, MAIS 663, MAIS 635), and engaged in coordination work and collaborative course writing in Political Science at AU.
In addition to my ongoing work on relational securitization, I continue to engage in several research projects and collaborations, including but not limited to:
A 3-year SSHRC-funded interdisciplinary project with Dr. Willow Samara Allen (UVic) on the settler colonial socialization of public sector workers in BC and Alberta
A collaboration on epistolary relationalities in the academe with ‘The Letters’ with Dr. Davina Bhandar (AU), Dr. Rita Dhamoon (UVic), and Dr. Anita Girvan (AU)
A British Academy funded project on racial capitalism and security with Dr. Gülden Özcan (University of Lethbridge), Dr. Tarek Younis (Middlesex University), and Dr. Evan Light (York University)
A SSHRC-funded project with Dr. Josie Auger (AU), Dr. Carolyn Green (AU) and Myra Tait (AU) on parallel pathways to research ethics
Co-editing a collection entitled Feministing in Political Science: A Manifesta for Change - with Dr. Stephanie Paterson (Concordia), Dr. Ethel Tungohan (York), Dr. Fiona MacDonald (UNBC), and Dr. Alana Cattapan (Waterloo)
I also recently joined Dr. Ethel Tungohan's podcast Academic Aunties as a producer!
As I turn my attention to revisioning the equity stream in the MAIS program, I look forward to hearing from you.
Educational credentials
PhD - University of Alberta (Political Science)
MA - Carleton University (Political Science)
BA - University of Alberta
Nath, Nisha and Willow Samara Allen. Forthcoming (2022). “Settler Colonial Socialization in Public Sector Work: Moving from Privilege to Complicity.” Studies in Social Justice.
Nath, Nisha. Forthcoming (2022). “Curated hostilities and the story of Abdoul Abdi: relational securitization in the settler colonial racial state.” In Sharry Aiken and Stephanie J. Silverman, eds. A World Without Cages: Bridging Immigration and Prison Justice. Routledge.
Patel, Shaista and Nisha Nath. Forthcoming (2022). “What is Pedagogic about ‘Settler of Colour’? White Universities and Ethics of Decolonial Work for Non-Black People of Colour.” In Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah Mclean and Verna St. Denis, eds. White Benevolence: Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions. Fernwood.
Nath, Nisha. 2021. “Curated Hostilities and the Story of Abdoul Abdi.” Citizenship Studies: Special Issue Decarceral Futures: Bridging Migrant and Prison Justice Towards an Abolitionist Future. 25(2): 292-315.
Abu-Laban, Yasmeen and Nisha Nath. 2020. Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Immigration: Mapping the Complexities of Inclusion and Exclusion Through Intersectionality. In Manon Tremblay and Joanna Everitt, eds. Palgrave Hadbook of Gender, Sexuality and Canadian Politics. Palgrave McMillan.
Girvan, Anita, Baljit Pardesi, Davina Bhandar and Nisha Nath. 2020. “Poetics of Care: Remedies for Racial Capitalism Gone Viral.” Feminist Studies 46(3): 717-728.
Nath, Nisha with Ethel Tungohan and Megan Gaucher. 2018. “The Future of Canadian Political Science: Boundary Transgressions, Gender and Anti-Oppression Frameworks.” Canadian Journal of Political Science. 51(3): 619-642.
Nath, Nisha. 2017. “Canadian Multicultural Citizenship and the ‘Crisis’ over the Veil”: Cultivating Internal Exclusions.” In Siavash Saffari, Roxana Akhbari, Kara Abdolmaleki, Evelyn Hamdon, eds. Unsettling Colonial Modernity: Islamicate Contexts in Focus. Cambridge Scholars Publisher.
Nath, Nisha. 2011. “Defining Narratives of Identity in Canadian Political Science: Accounting for the Absence of Race.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 44(1): 161-193.
Abu-Laban, Yasmeen and Nisha Nath. 2007. “From Deportation to Apology: The Case of Maher Arar and the Canadian State.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 39(3): 71-98.