Honors College Fellow recipient of the American Studies Association’s 2022 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize

Honors College Fellow Nadine Naber is the recipient of the American Studies Association’s 2022 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize, which recognizes the outstanding achievement of an individual who has dedicated a lifetime of work to the mission and values of American studies.

Her research challenges how racism, classism, heterosexism and U.S.-led empire-building impact Arab and Arab American communities and explores the possibilities for feminists of color to lead social movements to build a world without oppression.

In a nomination letter from Evelyn Alsultany, associate professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California, Naber is cited as one of the field’s leading scholars in the areas of transnational Arab and decolonial abolitionist feminisms

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