Nadine Naber

​Dr. Nadine Naber received her PhD at the University of California, Davis in Cultural Anthropology and Women’s Studies. She is currently a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For over fifteen years, Dr. Naber has been passionately mentoring radical scholars and scholar-activists. She has spent most of her academic career developing radical women of color, queer of color, and transnational feminist methodologies while implementing a politics of accountability between the university and social movements. She has served as a consultant, mentor, and trainer in all of these areas through programs like Training to Engaged Research; the Open Societies Foundation; and her side-gig, Naber Communications. She is the recipient of many awards related to social justice teaching, mentorship, and leadership such the Silver Circle Teaching Award at the University of Illinois at Chicago; the Earl and Edna Stice Social Justice Award at the Department of Women’s Studies University of Washington; and the YWCA Evanston’s Leadership Award (forthcoming 10/2020). She provides regular workshops on surviving academia without selling your soul (most recently at Syracuse University, March 2020 and Rutgers University, February 2020).