Education
PhD, Social and Political Thought, York University, Canada, 2016
MA, Social and Political Thought, York University, Canada, 2010Â
BA(H), Economics & Development Studies, Queenâs University, Canada, 2007
Research Interests
Critical Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, Queer & Trans of Color Critiques, Intersectional & Transnational Feminisms, Anti-colonial & Decolonial Thinking, Settler Colonialism Studies, South Asian Studies, Anti-Caste Critiques
Nishant Upadhyay is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the °ľÍř˝űÇř. They received their PhD at York University, Toronto in the Graduate Program of Social and Political Thought in 2016. Their dissertation received the National Womenâs Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Award 2018. Prior to joining CU Boulder, Nishant taught Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Northern Arizona University. Their teaching and research focuses on intersections of race, indigeneity, caste, gender, and sexuality. Their book manuscript, Indians on Indian Lands: Transnational Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity, studies the formation of dominant-caste Hindu Indian diasporas in North America and Indian diasporic complicities in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, Islamophobia, and brahminical supremacy. The manuscript is under advance contract with the University of Illinois Press.Â
Publications
Refereed Articles
âMaking of âModelâ South Asians on the Tar Sands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity." Journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies (Forthcoming 2019).Â
ââCan You Get More American Than Native American?â: (Racialized) Drag Americans, Settler Colonialism, and RuPaulâs Drag Race.â Cultural Studies, Volume 33, No. 1:  480-501 (2019).
âFeminisms, Collaborations, Friendships: A Conversation,â co-authored with Richa Nagar, Ăzlem Aslan, Nadia Hasan, Omme Rahemtullah, and Begum Uzun.  Feminist Studies, Volume 42, No. 2: 502-519 (2016).Â
âPinkwatching Israel, Whitewashing Canada: Queer (Settler) Politics and Indigenous Colonization in Canadaâ, co-authored with Michael C. Jackman. WSQ: Womenâs Studies Quarterly, Volume 42, Nos. 3-4: 195-210 (2014).
âQueering Conceptual Boundaries: Assembling Indigenous, Marxist, Postcolonial and Queer Perspectivesâ, co-authored with Paulo Ravecca. Jindal Global Law Review, Volume 4, No. 2: 357-378 (2013).
âPernicious Continuities: Un/settling Violence, Race and Colonialism."  Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, Volume 9, No. 2: 263-268 (2013).Â
Edited Collections
âComplicities, Connections, and Struggles: Critical Transnational Feminist Analysis of Settler Colonialism,â special guest editor of Feral Feminisms (4) with Shaista Patel and Ghaida Moussa (2015).
âGhadar: A Living History,â special guest editor of Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory 10(1)  (2014).
Contributions to Edited Collections (Selected)
âBrown Bodies, Borders, and Boats: Reading Tamil âIrregular Arrivantsâ Through the History of the Komagata Maru," co-authored with Nadia Hasan, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Omme Rahemtullah, and Nayani Vathsaladevi-Thiyagarajah. In Charting Imperial Itineraries: Unmooring the Komagata Maru, eds. Rita K. Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani, and Satwinder K. Bains (UBC Press, Vancouver: 2019).