Nadine Naber

Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women's Studies PhD, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis

Contact Information:
3632 Haven Hall
505 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045
734.647.0878
Email: ncnaber@umich.edu

Scholarly Interests: Arab American Studies; gender and sexuality; post-colonial theory; transnational feminism; women of color feminism.

Biography: Nadine Naber is an Assistant Professor in the Program in American Culture and the Department of Women’s Studies and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Davis. Her research and teaching focus on Arab American Studies; Women of Color and Transnational Feminisms; Race and Ethnicity; and Colonialism and Post-Colonial Theory . She is currently writing a book entitled, De-Orientalizing Diaspora: Race, Gender, and Cultural Identity among Arab American Youth in San Francisco, California. She is co-editor with Amaney Jamal of the book, Race and Arab Americans: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects (Syracuse University Press). Nadine is a co-editer, with Rabab Abdulhadi and Evelyn Alsultany, of Gender, Nation, and Belonging, a special issue of the MIT On Line Journal of Middle East Studies on Arab American Feminisms. She has published articles that situate Arab American Studies in the context of U.S. Racial and Ethnic studies, and Women of Color Feminisms in the Journal of Cultural Dynamics; the Journal of Asian American Studies; the Journal of Ethnic Studies; Feminist Studies; and Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. She is co-founder of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, North America (cyber AWSA); Arab Movement of Women arising for Justice (AMWAJ) and Arab Women’s Activist Network (AWAN) and a former board member of Incite! Women of Color against Violence; Racial Justice 9-11; and the Women of Color Resource Center.

Publications:

(2008)  Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11:  From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects, Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber, eds.

(2006) "Arab American Femininities: Beyond Arab Virgin/American(ized) Whore." Journal of Feminist Studies. 32(1).

(2005) MIT Journal of Middle East Studies. Special Issue on Arab American Feminisms. (Nadine Naber, Rabab Abdullhadi, and Evelyn Alsultany, eds.)

(2005) "Muslim First-Arab Second: A Strategic Politics of Race and Gender." The Muslim World. 95(4): 479-496

(2000) "Ambiguous Insiders, An Investigation of Arab American Invisibility." Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies. 23(1): 37-61