Education
PhD, Social and Political Thought, York University, Canada, 2016
MA, Social and Political Thought, York University, Canada, 2010聽
BA(H), Economics & Development Studies, Queen鈥檚 University, Canada, 2007
Research Interests
Critical Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, Queer & Trans of Color Critiques, Intersectional & Transnational Feminisms, Anti-colonial & Decolonial Thinking, Settler Colonialism Studies,聽South Asian Studies, Anti-Caste Critiques
Nishant Upadhyay is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the 精品SM在线影片. They received their PhD at York University, Toronto in the Graduate Program of Social and Political Thought in 2016. Their dissertation received the聽National Women鈥檚 Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Award 2018.聽Prior to joining 精品SM在线影片, Nishant taught Women's and Gender Studies at聽the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Northern Arizona University. Their聽teaching and research focuses on intersections of race, indigeneity, caste, gender, and sexuality. Their book聽manuscript,聽Indians on Indian聽Lands: Transnational Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity,聽studies the formation of dominant-caste Hindu Indian diasporas in North America and Indian diasporic complicities in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, Islamophobia, and brahminical supremacy. The manuscript is under advance contract with the聽University of Illinois Press.聽
Publications
Refereed Articles
鈥淢aking of 鈥淢odel鈥� South Asians on the Tar Sands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity."聽Journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies聽(Forthcoming 2019).聽
鈥溾�淐an You Get More American Than Native American?鈥�: (Racialized) Drag Americans, Settler聽Colonialism, and聽RuPaul鈥檚 Drag Race.鈥澛燙ultural Studies,聽Volume 33, No. 1:聽聽480-501 (2019).
鈥淔eminisms, Collaborations, Friendships: A Conversation,鈥澛燾o-authored with Richa Nagar,聽脰zlem聽Aslan, Nadia Hasan, Omme Rahemtullah, and Begum Uzun.聽聽Feminist Studies,聽Volume 42, No. 2: 502-519 (2016).聽
鈥淧inkwatching Israel, Whitewashing Canada: Queer (Settler) Politics and Indigenous聽Colonization in Canada鈥�, co-authored with Michael C. Jackman.聽WSQ: Women鈥檚 Studies Quarterly,聽Volume 42, Nos. 3-4: 195-210 (2014).
鈥淨ueering Conceptual Boundaries: Assembling Indigenous, Marxist, Postcolonial聽and Queer Perspectives鈥�, co-authored with Paulo Ravecca.聽Jindal Global Law Review,聽Volume 4, No. 2: 357-378 (2013).
鈥淧ernicious Continuities: Un/settling Violence, Race and Colonialism."聽聽Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory,聽Volume 9, No. 2: 263-268 (2013).聽
Edited Collections
鈥淐omplicities, Connections, and Struggles: Critical Transnational Feminist Analysis聽of Settler Colonialism,鈥� special guest editor of聽Feral Feminisms聽(4) with Shaista Patel and Ghaida Moussa (2015).
鈥淕hadar: A Living History,鈥� special guest editor聽of聽Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory聽10(1)聽 聽(2014).
Contributions to Edited Collections (Selected)
鈥淏rown Bodies, Borders, and Boats: Reading Tamil 鈥業rregular Arrivants鈥� Through聽the History of the聽Komagata Maru,"聽co-authored with聽Nadia Hasan, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Omme聽Rahemtullah, and Nayani Vathsaladevi-Thiyagarajah. In聽Charting Imperial Itineraries: Unmooring the Komagata Maru,聽eds. Rita K.聽Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani, and Satwinder K. Bains (UBC Press, Vancouver:聽2019).