Office Location:听Ketchum 166
Pronouns: they / them / theirs
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Education
PhD, Social and Political Thought, York University, Canada, 2016
MA, Social and Political Thought, York University, Canada, 2010听
BA(H), Economics & Development Studies, Queen鈥檚 University, Canada, 2007
Research Interests
Critical Ethnic Studies, Asian (North) American Studies, Queer & Trans of Color Critiques, Intersectional & Transnational Feminisms, Anti-colonial & Decolonial Thinking, Transnational Settler Colonialisms (US, Canada, India),听South Asian Studies, Anti-Caste Critiques
Affiliations
Women & Gender Studies
LGBTQ Studies听
Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies
Center for Asian Studies
Nishant joined the Department of Ethnic Studies in Fall 2019. They received their PhD at York University, Toronto in the Graduate Program of Social and Political Thought in 2016. Their dissertation received the听 in 2018.听Prior to joining CU Boulder, Nishant taught Women's and Gender Studies at听the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Northern Arizona University.
Their听research focuses on intersections of race, indigeneity, caste, gender, and sexuality. Their book听manuscript,听Indians on Indian听Lands: Transnational Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity,听studies the formation of dominant-caste Hindu Indian diasporas in North America and Indian diasporic complicities in processes of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, antiblackness, heteronormativity, brahminical supremacy, and Hindu nationalism. The manuscript is under advance contract with the听University of Illinois Press.听Their scholarship has been published in听Cultural Studies,听Interventions,听Journal of Critical Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies,听WSQ and other journals, anthologies, and online spaces.听They have edited a special issue of Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory (2014) on the Ghadar movement, and co-edited a special issue of Feral Feminisms (2015) on transnational feminist analysis of settler colonialism.
At CU Boulder, they teach within the areas of Queer and Trans of Color Studies, decolonial approaches to gender and sexuality, and Asian American Studies. Their teaching grounds intersectional, transnational, and decolonial frameworks. In recognition of their teaching, in Spring 2021 they received the Best Should Teach Gold Award, and in Spring 2020 the Staff Integrity Award. In Spring 2021, their students in the Queer and Trans of Color Visions class (ETHN 3101) made this collective zine as the final project:
Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal听Articles听(Selected)
鈥淗indu Nation and its Queers: Caste, Islamophobia, and De/coloniality in India.鈥� Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2020). Article translated and published in Malayalam by
鈥淢aking of 鈥淢odel鈥� South Asians on the Tar Sands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity.鈥澨�Journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies听(2019).听
鈥淐an You Get More American Than Native American?鈥�: (Racialized) Drag Americans, Settler听Colonialism, and听RuPaul鈥檚 Drag Race.鈥澨�Cultural Studies (2019).
鈥淔eminisms, Collaborations, Friendships: A Conversation,鈥澨齝o-authored with Richa Nagar,听脰zlem听Aslan, Nadia Hasan, Omme Rahemtullah, and Begum Uzun.听听Feminist Studies (2016).听
鈥淧inkwatching Israel, Whitewashing Canada: Queer (Settler) Politics and Indigenous听Colonization in Canada鈥�, co-authored with Michael C. Jackman.听WSQ: Women鈥檚 Studies Quarterly (2014).
鈥淨ueering Conceptual Boundaries: Assembling Indigenous, Marxist, Postcolonial听and Queer Perspectives鈥�, co-authored with Paulo Ravecca.听Jindal Global Law Review (2013).听
Edited Special Journal Issues
鈥淐omplicities, Connections, and Struggles: Critical Transnational Feminist Analysis听of Settler Colonialism,鈥� special guest co-editor of听Feral Feminisms (2015),听with Shaista Patel and Ghaida Moussa.
鈥淕hadar: A Living History,鈥� special guest editor听of听Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory听(2014).
Contributions to Edited Collections (Selected)
鈥淭rans/lating Queer, Annihilating Caste, Decolonizing Praxis,鈥� co-authored with Sandeep Bakshi, in Routledge Handbook on Translation, Gender, and Feminism, eds. Luise von Flotow and Hala Kamal (Routledge Press, London: 2020).
鈥淏rown Bodies, Borders, and Boats: Reading Tamil 鈥業rregular Arrivants鈥� Through听the History of the听Komagata Maru,"听co-authored with听Nadia Hasan, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Omme听Rahemtullah, and Nayani Vathsaladevi-Thiyagarajah, in听Charting Imperial Itineraries: Unmooring the Komagata Maru,听eds. Rita K.听Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani, and Satwinder K. Bains (UBC Press, Vancouver:听2019). *Anthology received honorable mention from The Canadian Studies Network for the Best Edited Collection in 2020
Non-Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (Selected)
鈥淐oloniality Of White Feminism and Its Transphobia: A Comment on Burt.鈥� Feminist Criminology (2021).
鈥淕eographies of Occupation in South Asia鈥�, co-authored with Nosheen Ali, Mona Bhan, Sahana Ghosh, Hafsa Kanjwal, Zunaira Komal, Deepti Misri, Shruti Mukherjee, Sabia Varma, and Ather Zia. Feminist Studies (2019).
鈥淧ernicious Continuities: Un/settling Violence, Race and Colonialism.鈥� Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory (2013).
Non-Academic Publications (Selected)
鈥淐OVID Carnage in India: Politics of Hatred, Hindu Right, and Western Imperialism鈥�, , (2021).
鈥淥n Atlanta and Boulder Shootings: Abolitionist Visions鈥�, , (2021).
鈥淭rans Liberation & Colonial Erasures,鈥� (2020).
鈥淨ueer Rights, Section 377, and Decolonizing听Sexualities,鈥� (2018).
