Richa Nagar
Richa Nagar (born 1968, in
Lucknow, India) is a scholar, writer, poet, theatre-worker, translator, and editor. Nagar is Professor Emeritus of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies[http://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/nagar] at the
University of Minnesota, where she had a long career as an anti-disciplinary educator, theorist and writer and held the title of Professor of the College,[https://cla.umn.edu/gwss/news-events/profile/seeding-change-and-seeing-change-enduring-legacy-richa-nagar] before joining
Smith College as the inaugural Gloria Steinem ’56 Endowed Chair in Women and Gender Studies. Nagar's creative and scholarly work makes multi-lingual and multi-genre contributions to
transnational feminism,
social geography, critical
development studies, and
critical ethnography. Her research has encompassed a range of topics including: politics of space, identity and community among communities of
South Asian origin in
Tanzania; questions of
empowerment in relation to grass-roots struggles in the global South, principally with the [https://sangtin.org/home/ Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan] (SKMS) in
Sitapur District, India; the politics of language and social fracturing in the context of development and neo-liberal globalization; and creative praxis that uses collaboration, co-authorship, and translation to blur the borders between academic, activist, and artistic labors. She has held residential fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford in 2005–2006, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study (JNIAS) at New Delhi in 2011–2012, and at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape in 2013. She was named Honorary Professor at the Unit for Humanities at the Rhodes University (UHURU) at Rhodes University in South Africa in 2017, and her work has been translated into several languages including Turkish, Marathi, Italian, German and Mandarin. Nagar is a founding editor of the online journal, AGITATE! Unsettling Knowledges.
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