Rate My Professor Nadine Naber

Dr. Naber is an award-winning scholar, named a Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar in 2024 and a University of Illinois University Scholar in 2025. She received the Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Studies Association. Her publications include authoring Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (NYU Press, 2012); co-authoring forthcoming books Radical Mothering: Caregiving and Resistance beyond Prison Walls (Haymarket) and Social Movement Led Research (NP Press); and co-editing Race and Arab Americans (Syracuse University Press, 2008), Arab and Arab American Feminisms, winner of the Arab American Book Award 2012 (Syracuse University Press, 2010), The Color of Violence (South End Press, 2006), and Towards the Sun (Tadween Press/George Mason University, 2020). She led the policy report The Status of Racial Justice for Arab Americans (IRRPP/UIC, 2022) and co-authored The Paradox of Social Development in the Arab Region (United Nations, 2015). Dr. Naber serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Palestine Studies and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. As a community-engaged scholar, she co-founded and directs research for Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity, founded Liberate Your Research Workshops, and has served on steering committees for INCITE! Women and Gender non-Conforming People against Violence, Arab Movement of Women Arising for Justice (AMWAJ), and the Arab American Action Network. She is a TEDx speaker with op-eds in the Chicago Reporter and Truthout, and perspectives featured in NPR, the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune.