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Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program

Nafisa Tanjeem

Visiting Scholar of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Nafisa Tanjeem’s areas of focus include transnational, postcolonial, and decolonial feminisms; critical race theory; globalization and feminist politics; critical community engagement; nonprofit industrial complex; critical university studies; and transnational social justice movements with a specific focus on the United States and South Asia. Her home institution is Lesley University, where she is Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Gender & Race Studies. She will be at Northeastern through the AY 2020-2021.

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  • Education

    PhD, Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, USA, 2017
    MA, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 2009
    BA, Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2008

  • Contact

    n.tanjeem@northeastern.edu

  • Address

    291 Holmes

Nafisa’s Colleagues

Nicole Aljoe

Professor of English and Africana Studies; Graduate Program Director
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Amílcar Antonio Barreto

Professor & Chair, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Professor & Interim Director, International Affairs; Professor, Political Science; Affiliated faculty member of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies; Affiliated faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Linda Blum

Professor of Sociology
Ekaterina Botchkovar

Ekaterina Botchkovar

Undergraduate Program Director; Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Elizabeth Bucar

Professor of Religion; Dean's Leadership Fellow

Theo Davis

Chair and Professor of English
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Silvia Dominguez

Associate Professor of Sociology

Amy Farrell

Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab
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Julia Flanders

Professor of the Practice in English; Director, Digital Scholarship Group
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Laura Frader

Professor, Emeritus

Laura Green

Associate Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Experiential Education; Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Carla Kaplan

Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature; Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

M. Whitney Kelting

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Lori Lefkovitz

Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; Professor of English

Alisa Lincoln

Director, Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research; Professor of Health Sciences and Sociology