Nadine Naber is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). At UIC, she is the founding director of the The Arab American Cultural Center. Nadine came to UIC from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where she co-founded the program, Arab and Muslim American Studies. Nadine Naber is author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. She is co-editor of Race and Arab Americans; Arab and Arab American Feminisms, winner of the Arab American Book Award 2012 (Syracuse University Press, 2010); The Color of Violence (Duke University Press, 2016); and Towards the Sun (Tadween Publishing/George Mason University, 2018). Dr. Naber has served as an editorial board member of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) and the Journal of Palestine Studies and an advisory board member of book series like Expanding Frontiers with the University of Nebraska Press; Arab American Writing with Syracuse University Press; and Decolonizing Feminisms with the University of Washington Press. Nadine has received numerous awards and recognitions such as the University of Washington, Department of Women’s Studies Earl and Edna Stice Social Justice Award (2015); the designation of expert author for the United Nations Economic and Social Council of West Asia (UNESCWA; and International Advisor with the Open Society Foundation. Nadine has served on the boards of groups like the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC); INCITE!; the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy; the Social Justice Initiative at UIC and the Rasmea Odeh Defense Committee. In 2019, Nadine will be a speaker for the TEDx event: Bold and Brilliant. For more information, see: https://nadinenaber.com and https://gws.uic.edu/profiles/naber-nadine/.
Junaid Rana is associate professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with appointments in the Department of Anthropology, the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. His publications have appeared in the journals American Anthropologist, American Quarterly, Cultural Dynamics, Journal of Asian American Studies, Social Text, Souls, South Atlantic Quarterly, and the edited anthologies Pakistani Diasporas (OUP, 2009) State of White Supremacy (Stanford, 2011), Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism(Brill, 2012), Dispatches from Pakistan (Leftword, 2012; Minnesota 2014), Between the Middle East and the Americas (Michigan, 2013), The Sun Never Sets(NYU, 2013), Flashpoints in Asian American Studies (Fordham, 2017), and The FBI and Religion (California, 2017). He is the author of the book Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke, 2011), winner of the 2013 Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in the Social Sciences. He is the co-editor of With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire (Minnesota, 2018). For the University of Minnesota Press he is editor of the Muslim International series. He served as the inaugural editor of the Critical Ethnic Studies (2014-2016), the journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association. Currently, he is associate editor of the journal Transforming Anthropology.
