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Nada Ali

Department:
Global Inclusion & Social Development
Title:
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Global Inclusion and Social Development

Biography

Nada Mustafa Ali is an Assistant Professor of Critical Inclusion Studies in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development (SGISD) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMass Boston) in the US.

Area of Expertise

Gender and development; governance; human rights; militarization and post-conflict settings; HIV/AIDS; feminist theories and methodologies; the Middle East and Africa, including Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, and Egypt

Degrees

PhD in Government (Development Studies Stream), Manchester University, United Kingdom

MA in Political Science, American University in Cairo, Egypt

BA, Honors in Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Social Studies, University of Khartoum, Sudan.

Professional Publications & Contributions

Books

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2015). Gender, Race, and Sudan’s Exile Politics: Do We All Belong to this Country? Maryland, Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield, now Bloomsbury).

Selected Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals/Selected Reports

Ali, Nada Mustafa (forthcoming, 2026). Foreword. In Sudan in the Context of Polycrisis. The Arab Council for the Social Sciences’ Beirut School of Critical Security Studies. Beirut Lebanon.

Ali, Nada Mustafa (2026). Academic Freedom in Times of War: Case of the Sudan. Review of Middle Eastern Studies. June.

Ali, Nada Mustafa (2024). Khartoum’s Women Street Vendor Cooperatives and the Politics of Care. In MERIP: Middle East Research and Information Project. Spring.

Ali, Nada Mustafa and Naglaa Abdulwahid (2022). Women Farmers and Food Sovereignty in a No War No Peace Situation: Case of Sudan’s South Kordofan. The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. Special issue on Contemporary Conflict. (Summer).

Ali, Nada Mustafa et. al. (2022). Gender and Social Change in Sudan: Experiences of Women Street Vendors in Khartoum and Port Sudan and Women Farmers in South Kordofan. DSRI, University of Khartoum, Sudan, and Economic Research Forum (Egypt). (Peer reviewed report).

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2019). Women’s Groups on Facebook and Sudan’s November 2016 #Civil Disobedience: Nairat or Thairat? (Glamorous or Revolutionary?). African Studies Review (special issue on The Body and Aesthetics in Africa). 62(2), pp. 103-126. (In the top 5% of all research scored by Almetric).

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2016). Sudan After al-Turabi: Understanding the Gendered Legacy of Islamism in Sudan and Beyond. In Hawaa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World. 14(1), 3-19.

Ali, Nada Mustafa and Edward Thomas. (2015). Development Deferred: Implementation of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement. Geneva, Switzerland: Small Arms Survey. Peer reviewed report (also available in Arabic) 
http://www.smallarmssurveysudan.org/fileadmin/docs/working-papers/HSBA-WP36-Development-Deferred-Eastern-Sudan.pdf

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2011). Gender and State-building in South Sudan. Washington, DC, US Institute of Peace (Special Report). 

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2005). Peace, Conflict, and Democratization in Sudan: A Gender Perspective. In Ruwaq Arabi: Periodical of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. No. 38-9, CIHRS, Cairo, Egypt. Pp. 183-192. (in Arabic).

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2005). Sudanese Women in the Diaspora and ‘Endangering Peace’ in Sudan. In Forced Migration Review, Oxford, UK, No. 24, November (Special issue on Sudan: Prospects for Peace) 
https://www.fmreview.org/sudan/ali

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2003). Thorny Issues and Perilous Coalitions: Addressing Women’s Human Rights in the Context of Conflict and the Struggle to Restore Democracy in Sudan (1989-2000). In Al-Raida (Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University, Special Issue on Women and War), Vol. XXI, No. 103.

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2000). Meet Mary Apai: Gender, Culture, and Conflict in Sudan. In Agenda (Taylor and Francis, Special issue on women in the aftermath of war), Vol. 16, No. 43.

Refereed Book Chapters

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2026). Women, Gender and Human Rights. In Elora Chowdhury and Rajini Srikanth (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights. London, Routledge (updated for the second edition).

Ali, Nada Mustafa (Forthcoming). Gender, Intersectionality, and Sudan’s Conflicts. In Souad T. Ali et. al. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Sudan’s Civil Wars. Cambridge University Press.

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2021). Body Aesthetics and Beauty Politics in Sudan. In Maxine B. Craig (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics. London, Routledge.

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2020). Gender and post-Comprehensive Peace Agreement Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in South Sudan. In Sarah M.H. Nouwen et. al. (eds.) Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond. Oxford University Press/the British Academy. 

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2019). Women, Gender and Human Rights. In Elora Chowdhury and Rajini Srikanth (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights. London, Routledge.

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2013). Making Sense of Sudan’s Conflicts. in John M. Michalczyk and Raymond G. Helmick, SJ. (eds.)  Through a Lens Darkly: Films of genocide, ethnic cleansing and atrocities. New York, Peter Lang.

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2012). Women and HIV/AIDS in South Sudan. in F. Bubenzer and O. Stern (eds.) Hope Pain, and Patience: The lives of women in South Sudan. Johannesburg, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation & Jacana Press. 

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2007). Hidden in the Mealie-Meal: Gender-based Abuses and Women’s HIV Treatment in Zambia. (Policy Report) New York, Human Rights Watch.

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (1999). Women’s Rights Between International Conventions and Islamic Schools of Thought: A Commentary. in O. Al-Garray (ed.) Women’s Rights Between International Conventions and Islamic Schools of Thought. Cairo, Egypt, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. (in Arabic).

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (1998). Survival, Empowerment and the Invisible Economy: Five cases from Atbara, Sudan. In R. Lobban (ed.) Women in the Middle Eastern Invisible Economy.  Gainesville, University of Florida Press. (based on my MA research with street vendors in Atbara, Sudan)

Encyclopedia Entries

Ali, Nada Mustafa.(forthcoming, accepted in 2023). The Sudanese Women’s Movement: 1952-2005 in Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women’s History. Edited by Dorothy Hodgson et. al. (Part of Oxford Research Encyclopedias ed. Thomas Spear et. al.) Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2016). Feminisms: North Africa. In Nancy Naples et. al. (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexualities Studies. Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell Press.

Selected Book Reviews

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2021). Review of Hawks and Doves in Sudan's Armed Conflict by Suad Musa. In Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. (Published by Cambridge University Press).  91(2), March. 

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2020). Review of Migration in A Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana edited by Mariama Awumbila, Delali Badasu, and Joseph Teye. Research Africa (online). Duke University Press.

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2017). Review of Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh by Elora Halim Chowdhury. Hypatia. 32(2) (Summer).

Selected Public Scholarship

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2019). The Victories and Continuing Struggles of Women in the Sudan. In The Conversation. June 18.  
https://theconversation.com/the-victories-and-continuing-struggles-of-women-in-sudan-118275

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2012). Hope, Pain and Patience: Sex Workers and HIV in South Sudan. Open Democracy. January 22.

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2011). ‘Mighty be our Powers’: Peace and Women in the Global South. Open Democracy.

Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2011). Independence Day Blues. My Sister’s Keeper Newsletter. Autumn.
http://www.mskeeper.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=148&Itemid=219

2026     Sudan’s War and the Fate of the Revolution A Crown Conversation with Nada Ali and Anna Reumert. Organized and edited by Ramyar Rossoukh. Brandeis University, USA. January (published in March). Invited and paid.

2025     The Impact of Sudan’s Ongoing War on Women and Communities: Displacement, Gender-Based Violence, and the Humanitarian Crisis. A presentation at a Webinar titled: Sudan's Power Struggle: Humanitarian Catastrophe, Foreign Interventions, and Ways Forward. Organized by Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University & Arab Center Washington DC. July 31st. Invited.

2025     “Gender and Climate Change in the MENA Region” (with Dr. Racha Ramadan, Cairo University), Cairo. Regional Conference on Transition to Clean Energy, Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt. February 4-5. Invited and paid.

2024     “Sudan Gender Assessment: Findings and Key Recommendations” A virtual presentation to Sudan’s Donors’ Forum (EU, US, UK representatives and others). October 17th.

2024     “We Are Still Here: Sudan Country Gender Assessment.” A virtual debriefing for the European Union’s Delegation to Sudan (with Nazik Abbas). September 30th.

2023     “The Conflict in Sudan: Will the Humanitarian Ceasefire Translate to A Political   Resolution?” Webinar organized by the Arab Center, Washington DC. June 1st. 
https://arabcenterdc.org/event/the-conflict-in-sudan-will-the-humanitarian-ceasefire-translate-to-a-political-resolution/ Invited

2023     “Qualitative Data Collection Plan for Sudan’s Case Study: A Commentary” July 13. (Discussant in the Webinar on Sudan’s Case Study: Equitable, Sustainable Developmentin the Context of Transition to Clean Energy), organized by ERF & partners. Invited.

2022     “Women’s Education and Labor Force Participation in the Middle East and North Africa   (MENA) Region.” Presentation to members of the Commission on Stabilization and           Reform in the MENA Region. (Convened by the Economic Research Forum and Paris School of Economics). June 27. (Virtual - invited and paid).

2021     “Looking Forward: Challenges for the People of Sudan” Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University. Nov 3. (Virtual – invited and paid).

2021     "Sit Al-Shai (Women Tea-Sellers/Street Vendors): Epistemological Insights on Gender and Sudan's 2018/2019 Uprising and Transition.” Panel on Gender, Transformation, and Politics (inaugural event of the “Rethinking Social Movements in the Arab World.” program). Institute for Social Science Research in Algeria and partners. Virtual, invited.

2020     “Gender and Social Movements, Social Media and Social Change in Sudan.” Presented at the Symposium on the Revival of Uprising in the Middle East and North Africa. Center for African Studies and Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. February 6. Invited

2020     “Reflections on Sudan’s 2018/2019 Uprising and Its Aftermath: A Gender & An Intersectional Perspective” Lecture at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. (Scheduled for 24 March, cancelled due to COVID-19). 

2019     “Women, Gender, and Sudan’s Uprising.” Panel organized by the Sudanese Community Association and the University of California in Berkley. October. Invited.

2019     “New Voices from Sudan: Women, Gender, and Sudan’s 2018/2019 Uprising,” Watson Institute, Brown University. October. Invited and paid.

2019     “We Learn from the Lessons of History and from the Experiences of Women: Lessons from Sudan’s Previous Interim Periods.” Virtual presentation (recorded) in a panel on Women, Gender, and Challenges of the Interim Period in Sudan. Ministry of Higher Education and Al-Nilein University, Khartoum (in Arabic). Invited.

2015     “Gender, Militarization, and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in South Sudan.” Presented at the Workshop on Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: Ten Years after the “Comprehensive” Peace Agreement. Cambridge, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK. September. Invited.

2012     “Acts of Courage: African Women and Youth and the Quest for Social Justice and Transformation in Africa” Lecture Hosted by the African Students’ Organization, and Women’s Issues, African History Month, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA. Invited.

2012    “Gender and State-Building in South Sudan.” Public Lecture at the Regional Centre for Gender, Peace and Diversity, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan. January. Invited.

2010     “Gender, Militarization, and Women in Sudan” Lecture at Drew University, New Jersey.  Invited.

2010     “Women, Gender and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a Focus on Sudan” Lecture at the Department of African and African American Studies. Fordham University, New York. May. Invited and paid.

2010     “Thorny Issues and Perilous Coalitions: Race, Gender, and the Sudanese Opposition in Exile” A talk at the Five College Women Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts. 3 December. Presentation at the end of my fellowship.

2005     “Peace, Conflict and Democratization in Sudan: A Gender Perspective (in Arabic). Paper presented at the conference on Between War and Peace: The Role of Civil Society in Peacekeeping and Development.” Vloto, Germany. July 29-31. Invited.

2005     “Peace, Conflict, and Economic Development in Eastern Sudan” Paper presented at the Sudan Focal Point-Europe Meeting. Hamburg, Germany, April 8-10. Invited.

2004     “Engaging with DfiD’s Sudan Country Engagement Plan” Paper presented at the Workshop on Gender and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Sudan” UK House of Commons, Westminster, London. March 16th. 

Selected Academic Conference & Webinar Convenings and Presentations

2026     Convenor and presenter, Women’s Narratives of War and Peace in Sudan, SGISD, UMass Boston, March 26th. 
Further Information available online.

2026     Narratives of War and Peace in Sudan. Presentation at UMass Boston’s Retired Faculty Annual Luncheon, March 20th.

2025     Sudan’s 2023 War: A Gender and an Intersectional Perspective. CEHD virtual Research Conversation, December 10. 

2025     Academic Freedom in Times of War: Case of the Sudan. Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference (Invited. Panel sponsored by the Academic Freedom Committee). Washington D.C, November.

2025     Convenor and Chair of the Africa Now! Panel “Indigenous Epistemologies, Gender, and Climate Justice in Africa.” African Studies Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, November 20th. Panelists included Nicholas Johnson (PhD student, UMass Boston, and Yusria Mohamed and Awadeya Mahmoud Kuku, Street Vendor Cooperatives Leaders.

2025     War, Gender, and Climate Change in Sudan: An Intersectional Perspective (with Yusria Mohamed and Awadeya Koko). Africa Now! Panel “Indigenous Epistemologies, Gender, and Climate Justice in Africa.” African Studies Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, November 20th.

2025     Statement on The Impact of Conflict on Women with Disabilities in Sudan. Civil Society Forum ,18th session of The Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. New York, USA To watch my presentation, please click here

2025     Women, Gender, and Human Rights. Lecture in the course “Introduction to Human Rights” (Instructor; Ellen Busolo Millimu). April 11th.

2025     Gender, Intersectionality, and Transnational Organizing among Sudan and South Sudan Women Exiles. Virtual lecture in the course “Refugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging” (Instructor: Anita Fabos). Clark University. February 28th. Paid.

2024     Sharing the Joy of Learning to Write and Writing to Learn. Virtual presentation at the end of the Writing Across the Curriculum program, UMass Boston, December.

2024     Conceptualized and convened a panel on Gender, Intersectionality, and Indigenous Epistemologies in Africa: Emerging Voices, African Studies Association’s annual conference, Chicago, IL, December 12–14. All but one speaker were UMass Boston graduate students or recent graduates.

2024     Convenor and speaker at an African Now! Session titled “Narratives on Sudan's Conflict” at the ASA annual conference, Chicago, IL, December 12-14. Speakers included a civil society activist and researcher, and two leaders of cooperatives.

2023     Convenor of Africa Now! Panel “Sudan’s Most Recent War: Causes, Impact, and Visions  for the Future.” November.

2022     Convenor of Panel on Sudan’s 2018/2019 Uprising and its Aftermath: Movement-Building, Knowledge-Production, and A Feminist Politics of Care. African Studies Association Meeting, Philadelphia, November 16-19.

2022     Sitat Al-Shai (Women Street Vendors) in Sudan: Organizing, Resistance, and Politics of Care.African Studies Association Meeting, Philadelphia, November 16-19.

2020     Women, Peace and Security in Sudan. African Studies Association Virtual Meeting. 3 November .(Panel on Sudan, sponsored by ASA program chairs).

2019     This Revolution is a Girls’ Revolution & The Whole Country is Darfur: Identity, Belonging, and Sudan’s 2018/2019 Uprising. African Studies Association Meeting, Boston, MA. 22 November.

2019    Social Media and Sudan’s 2018/2019 Uprising: A Gender and a Feminist Perspective. National Women’s Studies Association. San Francisco, CA. 14 November.

2018    Saraha Wa Taqa Ijabia [Frankness and Positive Energy]: Sudanese Women’s #MeToo Moments on Social Media, African Studies Association Meeting, Atlanta. (I Convened this Panel on Power, Knowledge, and the Body in Africa). November.

2018     Nairat? or Thairat? (Glamorous or Revolutionary?): Sudanese Women’s Groups on Facebook, National Women’s Studies Association Meeting, Atlanta. November.

2017     Convener of an Author Meets Critics panel on Gender, Race, and Sudan’s Exile Politics: Do We All Belong to this Country? African Studies Association’s Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. November.

2017     “Theories that Travel Well: Intersectionality in Sudan and South Sudan” National Women’s Studies Association Meeting, Baltimore, MD. November.

2016     “Nairat or Thairat? (Glamorous or Revolutionary? Sudanese Women’s Groups on Facebook.” African Studies Association Meeting.  Washington, DC. December. (Panel sponsored by the Women’s Caucus).

2016     “Gold Poured Off of her Hair”: Interrogating Sudan’s Decolonial, Opposition Discourses from a Feminist Perspective. National Women’s Studies Association meeting, Montreal, Canada. November.

2005     Race, Gender, and Gender-Based Violence in Darfur: Lessons and Recommendations. Paper presented at the second Sudan Research Group Meeting on Governance and Institutionalism in Sudan. London, University of East London. August 20-21.

2000     “Revisiting the Universality versus Cultural Specificity Debate in Human Rights.” Paper presented at the Sudan Studies Association Meeting. University of Durham, UK. August.

1999     ‘Gendering Asmara 1995’: Women and the Sudanese Opposition in Exile. Paper prepared and circulated at the Aftermath: Women in Post-Conflict Situations in Africa Conference. Johannesburg, South Africa. July 20-23.

1995     “Arab Cultures and Human Rights: A Gender Perspective.” Paper presented at the NGOs Forum, UN Fourth International Conference on Women, Beijing, China, Aug. 30 – Sept.8.

1995     “The impact of Culture on Women’s Socio-economic Rights in Arab Countries.”  Presented at the UN World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 4-14. 

1994     “Toward Gender-Sensitive Health Policies in Sudan (in Arabic).” Paper presented at the Arab Regional Preparatory Conference for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women. Amman, Jordan, November 2-5.

1994     “‘My Tongue is Too Heavy’: Local Languages as Tools of Domination.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Ngugi wa Thiongo: Texts and Contexts. Penn State University. April 7-9 (based on my MA thesis).

Invited Keynote Lectures

2019     “Notes on Social Movement Activism to Achieve Gender Equality and Social Justice” International Women’s Day Celebration, Ikeda Democracy Center. Cambridge, MA. March.

2018     “Speaking Up and Out: Women Reshaping the Media Narrative.” Presented at the 21st Annual Boston Area International Women’s Day event Simmons College, Boston, MA. March.

2017     “Gender and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in South Sudan” Haverford College, PA. March.

Teaching:

UMass Boston 

Spring 2026

GISD 804: Capstone Seminar (MA)

GISD 608: Research and Professional Ethics (PhD & MA)

Spring 2025

GISD 626: Global Health and Human Rights (PhD & MA)

GISD 804: Capstone Seminar (MA)

Fall 2024

GISD 602: Research in Diverse Settings: Epistemic Justice (PhD & MA)

GISD 609: Global Justice (PhD & MA)

Fall 2013-Spring 2024

Undergraduate Courses

  • Women in African Cultures
  • Women and the Media
  • Research Seminar in Women’s and Gender Studies (qualitative research methods course)
  • Advanced Topics in Human Right: Human Rights, Intersectionality, and the Politics of Memory. 
  • Introduction to Human Rights
  • Gender, Development and Globalization
  • Gender in Global Context
  • Women, Culture, and Identity
  • Global Health and Human Rights

Graduate-Level Courses

  • Gender and Human Security (PhD level)
  • Global Justice (PhD level -- SGISD)
  • Advanced Topics in Human Rights: Human Rights, Intersectionality, and the Politics of Memory) (Advanced undergraduate, MA & PhD levels)
  • International Responses & Organizations (PhD level-- SGISD)
  • ABD Support Seminar (PhD level – SGISD, non-credit).

Clark University

Undergraduate Courses

  • Advanced Topics in International Development: International Feminist Thinking and Action

Graduate (MA level) Courses

  • Gender, Politics and Development in Africa
  • The History and Politics of International Development
  • Theorizing Women, Gender and Development

The New School University

Undergraduate Courses

  • Gender and Conflict: Women, Peace and Security in the Middle East and Africa 
  • Refugees and Forced Migration

Additional Information

Dr. Mustafa Ali is an interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary educator, researcher and writer who uses critical theory (from a Black feminist perspective) to engage with questions of power and the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, social class, disability, and other aspects of difference in Sudan, South Sudan, and beyond.  Her research covers the overlapping themes of informality, feminisms in the global South; the politics of knowledge production, conflict, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction; global health and human rights; digitality, climate change, and social and 'grassroots' movements organizing. The running thread in these themes is local and global (in)equalities, and the politics of solidarity and care.

Before joining SGISD, Dr. Ali taught in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and in the Global Governance and Human Security program at UMass Boston. She was Visiting Assistant Professor and Visiting Professor at Clark University, Visiting Associate Professor at UMass Boston, and Part time faculty in Global Studies at the New School University. Dr. Ali also held several research fellow or associate positions in the US, including as Senior Fellow in the Center for Governance and Sustainability at UMass Boston. She worked or served in various capacities in a range of local, regional (Middle East & Horn of Africa) and international agencies and research organizations. Most recently, in 2024, she served as Senior Gender Advisor to the European Union’s Delegation to Sudan. Dr. Ali is a member of the African Feminist Initiative & an elected fellow of the Rift Valley Institute.

Dr. Ali has written extensively and published in both Arabic and English. She is the author of Gender, Race and Sudan's Exile Politics: Do We All Belong to this Country? (Lexington Books, 2015).   She has published numerous book chapters, and articles in peer reviewed journals.   Her current book project focuses on Women Street Vendors and their Cooperatives in 21st Century Sudan. Dr. Ali is the recipient of the 2025/2026 Endowed Faculty Career Award from the Leadership Council of UMass Boston’s Retired Faculty Council.

Dr. Ali currently chairs or co-chairs the doctoral dissertation committees of five students. She is member of several doctoral committees.

Originally from Sudan, Dr. Ali received her PhD in Government (Development Studies) from the University of Manchester in the UK. She has a BA (Hon.) and an MA from the University of Khartoum, and the American University in Cairo respectively, both in Political Science.

Academic Appointments at UMass Boston

September

2024-present
Assistant Professor, Global Inclusion and Social Development.

2021-2024
Senior Lecturer, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department (WGS).

2021-2022
Director of the Human Rights Program. 

2020-2022
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Governance and Sustainability.

2012-2020
Faculty Fellow, Center for Governance and Sustainability.

2019-2020
Director of the Human Rights Program.

2017-2018
Visiting Associate Professor, WGS Department.

2013-2021
Lecturer, WGS Department.

2019-2024
Affiliate Faculty, the McCormack Graduate School of Politics and Public Policy,
UMass Boston & The School for Social Inclusion and Social Development.
Visiting Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Clark University
Visiting Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change (IDSC), Department of International Development, Community, and the Environment (IDCE), Clark University
Part-time Faculty, Global Studies, the New School for Social Research
Visiting Scholar, Africana Studies Department, Fordham University
Research Associate, Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center
Research Fellow, the International Center for Reserch on Women