About
Dr. Nadine Naber
Dr. Nadine Naber is a public scholar, author, and teacher from Al-Salt, Jordan and the Bay Area of California. Nadine has been co-creating connections, research, and activism among scholars of color and social movements for the past 25 years. She is author/co-author of five books, an expert author for the United Nations; co-founder of the organization Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity (MAMAS); co-author of the forthcoming book, *Pedagogies of the Radical Mother* (Haymarket Press); and founder of programs such as the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program at the University of Michigan and the Arab American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois. Her work has been recognized through awards such as the Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Studies Association (2022), the Y-Women’s Leadership Award, and awards from foundations such as Macarthur, Ford, Russell Sage, Open Societies, and Andrew W. Mellon.
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Annie J McClanahan, Associate Professor of English, UC Irvine Co-Facilitator, SOH Black Studies Cluster
Nadine led a workshop for members of our Black Studies graduate student cluster. Participants described the workshop as very meaningful and transformative. This workshop would be an excellent supplement to any graduate program serving historically-excluded students or...
Judy Schabel, PhD, Assistant Dean for Diversity, University of Michigan
Dr. Naber facilitated her "Liberate Your Research" workshop for a group of faculty and for a group of doctoral students and in both cases the feedback was highly positive and heartfelt. Participants noted that the content was relevant and useful and that the...
Natalie Santiago, PhD student, Northern Illinois University
Dr. Naber's workshop is a profound experience for marginalized scholars seeking to explore complex questions that often affect our populations. Although I've gone to conferences and academic workshops previously, none of them seemed to address the root struggles I and...
Jakiyah Bradley, Former Operations Associate, Vera Institute of Justice
My former team benefited greatly from Dr. Naber's work which helped us interrogate our role as researchers within the non-profit industrial complex (NPIC). It requires a special person like Dr. Naber to help groups identify the structures within the NPIC because it is...
Richa Nagar, ऋचा नागर, Professor of the College, Professor and Co-chair, Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
I invited Nadine to speak to the incoming cohort of fellows at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the University of Minnesota on "Ways of Knowing," with a special focus on how to build ethical knowledge with movements for social,...
Amanda Batarseh, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Department of Literature, UC San Diego
Working with Nadine has helped me to take ownership of my writing and reorient the doubt or anxieties that emerge while writing in a way that is generative rather than destructive. She has helped me to distinguish between the harmful structures produced within...
Cynthia Franklin, Professor, English, University of Hawai’i
I cannot recommend this workshop highly enough. Nadine inspired participants in this workshop to approach our research with joy and confidence. She gave us the tools to quell the oppressive criticism many of us have internalized that undermines our writing; she gave...
Badia Ahad, Professor, English, Loyola University Chicago
I invited Nadine to offer her workshop (Liberate Your Research) for our faculty of color retreat and it was exceptional--from beginning to end. Faculty of color are burned out right now and I did not want to host a retreat that focused on "productivity" as a measure...
Michael De Anda Muniz, Assistant Professor, Latinx Studies, San Francisco State University
Nadine visited my graduate research methods seminar and her workshop knocked down walls and opened up doors for my students. They entered the workshop feeling stuck and inadequate. They left feeling empowered to be true to themselves and their communities through...
Mariela Méndez, Associate Professor, Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies, University of Richmond
Before I took Nadine's workshop, I was bogged down by the feeling that I was stretched out to think in way too many directions. This had to do with my decision to accept the position of Chair of my department, but also with being committed to too many, unrelated...