Dr. Nisha Nath

Associate Professor, Equity Studies, MAIS

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E-mail: nnath@athabascau.ca

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Dr. Nisha Nath

Associate Professor, Equity Studies, MAIS

Contact information

Email: nnath@athabascau.ca

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I’m an Associate Professor of Equity Studies (she/they) in the MAIS program and am based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). Trained as a political scientist (Canadian Politics and Gender & Politics), my research and collaborations are intentionally 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 and antiracist politics in settler colonial states.

I teach three core courses within the MAIS program (MAIS 602, MAIS 663, MAIS 635), and engage in coordination work and collaborative course writing in Political Science at AU.

In addition to my ongoing work on relational securitization in Canada, I continue to engage in several research projects and collaborations, including but not limited to:

A SSHRC-funded interdisciplinary project with Dr. Willow Samara Allen (UVic) on settler colonial socialization of public sector workers in BC and Alberta. In this ongoing work ("Documenting discretion: Shedding light on settler colonial socialization in public sector work"), we centre the knowledge of Indigenous and racialized public sector workers and document the impacts and mechanisms of discretionary power in decision making across public sector roles, sectors and jurisdictions.
A collaborative book project on epistolary relationalities in the academe with The Letters: Writing Lives Through and Against the University with Dr. Davina Bhandar (AU), Dr. Rita Dhamoon (UVic), and Dr. Anita Girvan (AU). This book is under contract with Fernwood.
A co-edited collection entitled Feministing in Political Science: A Manifesta for Change (University of Alberta Press) - with Dr. Stephanie Paterson (Concordia), Dr. Ethel Tungohan (York), Dr. Fiona MacDonald (UNBC), and Dr. Alana Cattapan (Waterloo).
Collaborator with Dr. Anita Girvan, Dr. Davina Bhandar and Dr. Rita Dhamoon on the Insurgent Resurgent Knowledges Lab (IRK Lab).
Producer of the podcast Academic Aunties with host Dr. Ethel Tungohan, and producer Wayne Chu.

Educational credentials

PhD - University of Alberta (Political Science)
MA - Carleton University (Political Science)
BA - University of Alberta

Professional affiliations

Section Editor, Studies in Social Justice
Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Political Science
Editorial Committee, AU Press
Publications Committee, Scholarly Book Awards (ASPP)

Allen, Willow Samara, Nisha Nath and Trista Georges. 2023. "Antiracist Interventive Interviewing: Subverting Colonial Interventions with Public Sector Workers." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 22 https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231166655.
Patel, Shaista and Nisha Nath. 2022. "What can 'Settler of Colour' Teach Us? A Conversation on the Complexities of Decolonization in White Universities." In White Benevolence: Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions, edited by Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean and Verna St. Denis. Fernwood Press.
Nath, Nisha and Willow Samara Allen. 2022. "Settler Colonial Socialization in Public Sector Work: Moving from Privilege to Complicity." Studies in Social Justice 16(1).
Nath, Nisha. 2022. "Curated hostilities and the story of Abdoul Abdi: relational securitization in the settler colonial racial state." In A World Without Cages: Bridging Immigration and Prison Justice, eds. Sharry Aiken and Stephanie J. Silverman. Routledge.
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.