Nada Ali
Assistant Professor, Global Inclusion and Social Development
Biography
Nada Mustafa Ali is an Assistant Professor of Critical Inclusion Studies in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development (SGISD) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (91视频) in the US. She is an interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary educator, researcher and writer who uses critical theory (from a Black feminist perspective) to engage with questions of power and the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, social class, disability, and other aspects of difference in Sudan, South Sudan, and beyond. Her research covers the overlapping themes of informality, feminisms in the global South; the politics of knowledge production, conflict, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction; global health and human rights; digitality, climate change, and social and 'grassroots' movements organizing. The running thread in these themes is local and global (in)equalities, and the politics of solidarity and care.
Before joining SGISD, Dr. Ali taught in the Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and in the Global Governance and Human Security program at 91视频. She was Visiting Assistant Professor and Visiting Professor at Clark University, Visiting Associate Professor at 91视频, and Part time faculty in Global Studies at the New School University. Dr. Ali also held several research fellow or associate positions in the US, including as Senior Fellow in the Center for Governance and Sustainability at 91视频. She worked or served in various capacities in a range of local, regional (Middle East & Horn of Africa) and international agencies and research organizations. Most recently, in 2024, she served as Senior Gender Advisor to the European Union鈥檚 Delegation to Sudan. Dr. Ali is a member of the African Feminist Initiative & an elected fellow of the Rift Valley Institute.
Dr. Ali has written extensively and published in both Arabic and English. She is the author of Gender, Race and Sudan's Exile Politics: Do We All Belong to this Country? (Lexington Books, 2015). She has published numerous book chapters, and articles in peer reviewed journals. Her current book project focuses on Women Street Vendors and their Cooperatives in 21st Century Sudan. Dr. Ali is the recipient of the 2025/2026 Endowed Faculty Career Award from the Leadership Council of 91视频鈥檚 Retired Faculty Council.
Dr. Ali currently chairs or co-chairs the doctoral dissertation committees of five students. She is member of several doctoral committees.
Originally from Sudan, Dr. Ali received her PhD in Government (Development Studies) from the University of Manchester in the UK. She has a BA (Hon.) and an MA from the University of Khartoum, and the American University in Cairo respectively, both in Political Science.
Area of Expertise
Gender and development; governance; human rights; militarization and post-conflict settings; HIV/AIDS; feminist theories and methodologies; the Middle East and Africa, including Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, and Egypt
Degrees
PhD, Government, Development Studies Stream, University of Manchester, UK
MA, Political Science, American University in Cairo, Egypt
BA (Hon.), Political Science, University of Khartoum, Sudan
Degrees
PhD in Government (Development Studies Stream), Manchester University, United Kingdom
MA in Political Science, American University in Cairo, Egypt
BA, Honors in Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Social Studies, University of Khartoum, Sudan.
Professional Publications & Contributions
Gender, Race and Sudan's Exile Politics: Do We All Belong to this Country? (Lexington Books, 2015).
Sudanese Women's Groups on Facebook and #Civil Disobedience: Nairat or Thairat? (Radiant or Revolutionary?). African Studies Review, (62(2), 2019. 103-126.
Women, Gender, and Human Rights. In Srikanth, R and Chowdhury, E. (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights. (Routledge, 2019).
Professional Publications & Contributions
Books
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2015). Gender, Race, and Sudan鈥檚 Exile Politics: Do We All Belong to this Country? Maryland, Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield, now Bloomsbury).
Selected Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals/Selected Reports
Ali, Nada Mustafa (forthcoming, 2026). Foreword. In Sudan in the Context of Polycrisis. The Arab Council for the Social Sciences鈥� Beirut School of Critical Security Studies. Beirut Lebanon.
Ali, Nada Mustafa (2026). Academic Freedom in Times of War: Case of the Sudan. Review of Middle Eastern Studies. June.
Ali, Nada Mustafa (2024). Khartoum鈥檚 Women Street Vendor Cooperatives and the Politics of Care. In MERIP: Middle East Research and Information Project. Spring.
Ali, Nada Mustafa and Naglaa Abdulwahid (2022). Women Farmers and Food Sovereignty in a No War No Peace Situation: Case of Sudan鈥檚 South Kordofan. The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. Special issue on Contemporary Conflict. (Summer).
Ali, Nada Mustafa et. al. (2022). Gender and Social Change in Sudan: Experiences of Women Street Vendors in Khartoum and Port Sudan and Women Farmers in South Kordofan. DSRI, University of Khartoum, Sudan, and Economic Research Forum (Egypt). (Peer reviewed report).
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2019). Women鈥檚 Groups on Facebook and Sudan鈥檚 November 2016 #Civil Disobedience: Nairat or Thairat? (Glamorous or Revolutionary?). African Studies Review (special issue on The Body and Aesthetics in Africa). 62(2), pp. 103-126. (In the top 5% of all research scored by Almetric).
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2016). Sudan After al-Turabi: Understanding the Gendered Legacy of Islamism in Sudan and Beyond. In Hawaa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World. 14(1), 3-19.
Ali, Nada Mustafa and Edward Thomas. (2015). Development Deferred: Implementation of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement. Geneva, Switzerland: Small Arms Survey. Peer reviewed report (also available in Arabic)
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2011). Gender and State-building in South Sudan. Washington, DC, US Institute of Peace (Special Report).
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2005). Peace, Conflict, and Democratization in Sudan: A Gender Perspective. In Ruwaq Arabi: Periodical of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. No. 38-9, CIHRS, Cairo, Egypt. Pp. 183-192. (in Arabic).
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2005). Sudanese Women in the Diaspora and 鈥楨ndangering Peace鈥� in Sudan. In Forced Migration Review, Oxford, UK, No. 24, November (Special issue on Sudan: Prospects for Peace)
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2003). Thorny Issues and Perilous Coalitions: Addressing Women鈥檚 Human Rights in the Context of Conflict and the Struggle to Restore Democracy in Sudan (1989-2000). In Al-Raida (Institute for Women鈥檚 Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University, Special Issue on Women and War), Vol. XXI, No. 103.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2000). Meet Mary Apai: Gender, Culture, and Conflict in Sudan. In Agenda (Taylor and Francis, Special issue on women in the aftermath of war), Vol. 16, No. 43.
Refereed Book Chapters
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2026). Women, Gender and Human Rights. In Elora Chowdhury and Rajini Srikanth (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights. London, Routledge (updated for the second edition).
Ali, Nada Mustafa (Forthcoming). Gender, Intersectionality, and Sudan鈥檚 Conflicts. In Souad T. Ali et. al. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Sudan鈥檚 Civil Wars. Cambridge University Press.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2021). Body Aesthetics and Beauty Politics in Sudan. In Maxine B. Craig (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics. London, Routledge.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2020). Gender and post-Comprehensive Peace Agreement Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in South Sudan. In Sarah M.H. Nouwen et. al. (eds.) Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond. Oxford University Press/the British Academy.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2019). Women, Gender and Human Rights. In Elora Chowdhury and Rajini Srikanth (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights. London, Routledge.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2013). Making Sense of Sudan鈥檚 Conflicts. in John M. Michalczyk and Raymond G. Helmick, SJ. (eds.) Through a Lens Darkly: Films of genocide, ethnic cleansing and atrocities. New York, Peter Lang.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2012). Women and HIV/AIDS in South Sudan. in F. Bubenzer and O. Stern (eds.) Hope Pain, and Patience: The lives of women in South Sudan. Johannesburg, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation & Jacana Press.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2007). Hidden in the Mealie-Meal: Gender-based Abuses and Women鈥檚 HIV Treatment in Zambia. (Policy Report) New York, Human Rights Watch.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (1999). Women鈥檚 Rights Between International Conventions and Islamic Schools of Thought: A Commentary. in O. Al-Garray (ed.) Women鈥檚 Rights Between International Conventions and Islamic Schools of Thought. Cairo, Egypt, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. (in Arabic).
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (1998). Survival, Empowerment and the Invisible Economy: Five cases from Atbara, Sudan. In R. Lobban (ed.) Women in the Middle Eastern Invisible Economy. Gainesville, University of Florida Press. (based on my MA research with street vendors in Atbara, Sudan)
Encyclopedia Entries
Ali, Nada Mustafa.(forthcoming, accepted in 2023). The Sudanese Women鈥檚 Movement: 1952-2005 in Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women鈥檚 History. Edited by Dorothy Hodgson et. al. (Part of Oxford Research Encyclopedias ed. Thomas Spear et. al.) Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2016). Feminisms: North Africa. In Nancy Naples et. al. (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexualities Studies. Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell Press.
Selected Book Reviews
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2021). Review of Hawks and Doves in Sudan's Armed Conflict by Suad Musa. In Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. (Published by Cambridge University Press). 91(2), March.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2020). Review of Migration in A Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana edited by Mariama Awumbila, Delali Badasu, and Joseph Teye. Research Africa (online). Duke University Press.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2017). Review of Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh by Elora Halim Chowdhury. Hypatia. 32(2) (Summer).
Selected Public Scholarship
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2019). The Victories and Continuing Struggles of Women in the Sudan. In The Conversation. June 18.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2012). Hope, Pain and Patience: Sex Workers and HIV in South Sudan. Open Democracy. January 22.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2011). 鈥楳ighty be our Powers鈥�: Peace and Women in the Global South. Open Democracy.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2011). Independence Day Blues. My Sister鈥檚 Keeper Newsletter. Autumn.
2026 Sudan鈥檚 War and the Fate of the Revolution A Crown Conversation with Nada Ali and Anna Reumert. Organized and edited by Ramyar Rossoukh. Brandeis University, USA. January (published in March). Invited and paid.
2025 The Impact of Sudan鈥檚 Ongoing War on Women and Communities: Displacement, Gender-Based Violence, and the Humanitarian Crisis. A presentation at a Webinar titled: Sudan's Power Struggle: Humanitarian Catastrophe, Foreign Interventions, and Ways Forward. Organized by Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University & Arab Center Washington DC. July 31st. Invited.
2025 鈥淕ender and Climate Change in the MENA Region鈥� (with Dr. Racha Ramadan, Cairo University), Cairo. Regional Conference on Transition to Clean Energy, Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt. February 4-5. Invited and paid.
2024 鈥淪udan Gender Assessment: Findings and Key Recommendations鈥� A virtual presentation to Sudan鈥檚 Donors鈥� Forum (EU, US, UK representatives and others). October 17th.
2024 鈥淲e Are Still Here: Sudan Country Gender Assessment.鈥� A virtual debriefing for the European Union鈥檚 Delegation to Sudan (with Nazik Abbas). September 30th.
2023 鈥淭he Conflict in Sudan: Will the Humanitarian Ceasefire Translate to A Political Resolution?鈥� Webinar organized by the Arab Center, Washington DC. June 1st.
Invited
2023 鈥淨ualitative Data Collection Plan for Sudan鈥檚 Case Study: A Commentary鈥� July 13. (Discussant in the Webinar on Sudan鈥檚 Case Study: Equitable, Sustainable Development in the Context of Transition to Clean Energy), organized by ERF & partners. Invited.
2022 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Education and Labor Force Participation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region.鈥� Presentation to members of the Commission on Stabilization and Reform in the MENA Region. (Convened by the Economic Research Forum and Paris School of Economics). June 27. (Virtual - invited and paid).
2021 鈥淟ooking Forward: Challenges for the People of Sudan鈥� Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University. Nov 3. (Virtual 鈥� invited and paid).
2021 "Sit Al-Shai (Women Tea-Sellers/Street Vendors): Epistemological Insights on Gender and Sudan's 2018/2019 Uprising and Transition.鈥� Panel on Gender, Transformation, and Politics (inaugural event of the 鈥淩ethinking Social Movements in the Arab World.鈥� program). Institute for Social Science Research in Algeria and partners. Virtual, invited.
2020 鈥淕ender and Social Movements, Social Media and Social Change in 厂耻诲补苍.鈥�&#虫补0;Presented at the Symposium on the Revival of Uprising in the Middle East and North Africa. Center for African Studies and Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. February 6. Invited
2020 鈥淩eflections on Sudan鈥檚 2018/2019 Uprising and Its Aftermath: A Gender & An Intersectional Perspective鈥� Lecture at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. (Scheduled for 24 March, cancelled due to COVID-19).
2019 鈥淲omen, Gender, and Sudan鈥檚 Uprising.鈥� Panel organized by the Sudanese Community
Association and the University of California in Berkley. October. Invited.
2019 鈥淣ew Voices from Sudan: Women, Gender, and Sudan鈥檚 2018/2019 Uprising,鈥� Watson
Institute, Brown University. October. Invited and paid.
2019 鈥淲e Learn from the Lessons of History and from the Experiences of Women: Lessons
from Sudan鈥檚 Previous Interim Periods.鈥� Virtual presentation (recorded) in a panel on
Women, Gender, and Challenges of the Interim Period in Sudan. Ministry of Higher
Education and Al-Nilein University, Khartoum (in Arabic). Invited.
2015&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;鈥�Gender, Militarization, and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in South
厂耻诲补苍.鈥�&#虫补0;Presented at the Workshop on Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South
Sudan: Ten Years after the 鈥淐omprehensive鈥� Peace Agreement. Cambridge, Pembroke
College, University of Cambridge, UK. September. Invited.
2012 鈥淎cts of Courage: African Women and Youth and the Quest for Social Justice and
Transformation in Africa鈥� Lecture Hosted by the African Students鈥� Organization, and
Women鈥檚 Issues, African History Month, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA. Invited.
2012 鈥淕ender and State-Building in South Sudan.鈥� Public Lecture at the Regional Centre for
Gender, Peace and Diversity, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan. January. Invited.
2010 鈥淕ender, Militarization, and Women in Sudan鈥� Lecture at Drew University, New Jersey. Invited.
2010 鈥淲omen, Gender and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a Focus on Sudan鈥� Lecture at
the Department of African and African American Studies. Fordham University, New York. May. Invited and paid.
2010 鈥淭horny Issues and Perilous Coalitions: Race, Gender, and the Sudanese Opposition in
Exile鈥� A talk at the Five College Women Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke
College, Massachusetts. 3 December. Presentation at the end of my fellowship.
2005 鈥淧eace, Conflict and Democratization in Sudan: A Gender Perspective (in Arabic). Paper
presented at the conference on Between War and Peace: The Role of Civil Society in
Peacekeeping and Development.鈥� Vloto, Germany. July 29-31. Invited.
2005 鈥淧eace, Conflict, and Economic Development in Eastern Sudan鈥� Paper presented at
the Sudan Focal Point-Europe Meeting. Hamburg, Germany, April 8-10. Invited.
2004 鈥淓ngaging with DfiD鈥檚 Sudan Country Engagement Plan鈥� Paper presented at the
Workshop on Gender and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Sudan鈥� UK House of
Commons, Westminster, London. March 16th.
Selected Academic Conference & Webinar Convenings and Presentations
2026 Convenor and presenter, Women鈥檚 Narratives of War and Peace in Sudan, SGISD, 91视频, March 26th. .
2026 Narratives of War and Peace in Sudan. Presentation at 91视频鈥檚 Retired Faculty Annual Luncheon, March 20th.
2025 Sudan鈥檚 2023 War: A Gender and an Intersectional Perspective. CEHD virtual Research Conversation, December 10.
2025 Academic Freedom in Times of War: Case of the Sudan. Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference (Invited. Panel sponsored by the Academic Freedom Committee). Washington D.C, November.
2025 Convenor and Chair of the Africa Now! Panel 鈥淚ndigenous Epistemologies, Gender, and Climate Justice in Africa.鈥� African Studies Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, November 20th. Panelists included Nicholas Johnson (PhD student, 91视频, and Yusria Mohamed and Awadeya Mahmoud Kuku, Street Vendor Cooperatives Leaders.
2025 War, Gender, and Climate Change in Sudan: An Intersectional Perspective (with Yusria Mohamed and Awadeya Koko). Africa Now! Panel 鈥淚ndigenous Epistemologies, Gender, and Climate Justice in Africa.鈥� African Studies Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, November 20th.
2025 Statement on The Impact of Conflict on Women with Disabilities in Sudan. Civil Society Forum ,18th session of The Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. New York, USA
2025 Women, Gender, and Human Rights. Lecture in the course 鈥淚ntroduction to Human Rights鈥� (Instructor; Ellen Busolo Millimu). April 11th.
2025 Gender, Intersectionality, and Transnational Organizing among Sudan and South Sudan Women Exiles. Virtual lecture in the course 鈥淩efugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging鈥� (Instructor: Anita Fabos). Clark University. February 28th. Paid.
2024 Sharing the Joy of Learning to Write and Writing to Learn. Virtual presentation at the end of the Writing Across the Curriculum program, 91视频, December.
2024 Conceptualized and convened a panel on Gender, Intersectionality, and Indigenous Epistemologies in Africa: Emerging Voices, African Studies Association鈥檚 annual conference, Chicago, IL, December 12鈥�14. All but one speaker were 91视频 graduate students or recent graduates.
2024 Convenor and speaker at an African Now! Session titled 鈥淣arratives on Sudan's Conflict鈥� at the ASA annual conference, Chicago, IL, December 12-14. Speakers included a civil society activist and researcher, and two leaders of cooperatives.
2023 Convenor of Africa Now! Panel 鈥淪udan鈥檚 Most Recent War: Causes, Impact, and Visions for the Future.鈥� November.
2022 Convenor of Panel on Sudan鈥檚 2018/2019 Uprising and its Aftermath: Movement- Building, Knowledge-Production, and A Feminist Politics of Care. African Studies Association Meeting, Philadelphia, November 16-19.
2022 Sitat Al-Shai (Women Street Vendors) in Sudan: Organizing, Resistance, and Politics of Care.African Studies Association Meeting, Philadelphia, November 16-19.
2020 Women, Peace and Security in Sudan. African Studies Association Virtual Meeting. 3 November .(Panel on Sudan, sponsored by ASA program chairs).
2019 This Revolution is a Girls鈥� Revolution & The Whole Country is Darfur: Identity, Belonging, and Sudan鈥檚 2018/2019 Uprising. African Studies Association Meeting, Boston, MA. 22 November.
2019 Social Media and Sudan鈥檚 2018/2019 Uprising: A Gender and a Feminist Perspective. National Women鈥檚 Studies Association. San Francisco, CA. 14 November.
2018 Saraha Wa Taqa Ijabia [Frankness and Positive Energy]: Sudanese Women鈥檚 #MeToo
Moments on Social Media, African Studies Association Meeting, Atlanta. (I
Convened this Panel on Power, Knowledge, and the Body in Africa). November.
2018 Nairat? or Thairat? (Glamorous or Revolutionary?): Sudanese Women鈥檚 Groups on
Facebook, National Women鈥檚 Studies Association Meeting, Atlanta. November.
2017 Convener of an Author Meets Critics panel on Gender, Race, and Sudan鈥檚 Exile Politics: Do
We All Belong to this Country? African Studies Association鈥檚 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
November.
2017 鈥淭heories that Travel Well: Intersectionality in Sudan and South Sudan鈥� National
Women鈥檚 Studies Association Meeting, Baltimore, MD. November.
2016 鈥淣airat or Thairat? (Glamorous or Revolutionary? Sudanese Women鈥檚 Groups on
Facebook.鈥� African Studies Association Meeting. Washington, DC. December. (Panel sponsored by the Women鈥檚 Caucus).
2016 鈥淕old Poured Off of her Hair鈥�: Interrogating Sudan鈥檚 Decolonial, Opposition Discourses
from a Feminist Perspective. National Women鈥檚 Studies Association meeting, Montreal, Canada. November.
2005 Race, Gender, and Gender-Based Violence in Darfur: Lessons and Recommendations.
Paper presented at the second Sudan Research Group Meeting on Governance
and Institutionalism in Sudan. London, University of East London. August 20-21.
2000 鈥淩evisiting the Universality versus Cultural Specificity Debate in Human Rights.鈥� Paper
presented at the Sudan Studies Association Meeting. University of Durham, UK. August.
1999 鈥楪endering Asmara 1995鈥�: Women and the Sudanese Opposition in Exile. Paper prepared
and circulated at the Aftermath: Women in Post-Conflict Situations in Africa Conference.
Johannesburg, South Africa. July 20-23.
1995 鈥淎rab Cultures and Human Rights: A Gender Perspective.鈥� Paper presented at the NGOs
Forum, UN Fourth International Conference on Women, Beijing, China, Aug. 30 鈥� Sept.8.
1995 鈥淭he impact of Culture on Women鈥檚 Socio-economic Rights in Arab Countries.鈥� Presented
at the UN World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 4-14.
1994 鈥淭oward Gender-Sensitive Health Policies in Sudan (in Arabic).鈥� Paper presented at the
Arab Regional Preparatory Conference for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women.
Amman, Jordan, November 2-5.
1994 鈥溾�楳y Tongue is Too Heavy鈥�: Local Languages as Tools of Domination.鈥� Paper presented at
the International Conference on Ngugi wa Thiongo: Texts and Contexts. Penn State
University. April 7-9 (based on my MA thesis).
Invited Keynote Lectures
2019&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;鈥�Notes on Social Movement Activism to Achieve Gender Equality and Social Justice鈥� International Women鈥檚 Day Celebration, Ikeda Democracy Center. Cambridge, MA. March.
2018 鈥淪peaking Up and Out: Women Reshaping the Media Narrative.鈥� Presented at the 21st Annual Boston Area International Women鈥檚 Day event Simmons College, Boston, MA. March.
2017 鈥淕ender and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in South Sudan鈥� Haverford College, PA. March.
Teaching:
91视频
Spring 2026
GISD 804: Capstone Seminar (MA)
GISD 608: Research and Professional Ethics (PhD & MA)
Spring 2025
GISD 626: Global Health and Human Rights (PhD & MA)
GISD 804: Capstone Seminar (MA)
Fall 2024:
GISD 602: Research in Diverse Settings: Epistemic Justice (PhD & MA)
GISD 609: Global Justice (PhD & MA)
Fall 2013-Spring 2024
Undergraduate Courses
- Women in African Cultures
- Women and the Media
- Research Seminar in Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies (qualitative research methods course)
- Advanced Topics in Human Right: Human Rights, Intersectionality, and the Politics of Memory.
- Introduction to Human Rights
- Gender, Development and Globalization
- Gender in Global Context
- Women, Culture, and Identity
- Global Health and Human Rights
Graduate-Level Courses
搂 Gender and Human Security (PhD level)
搂 Global Justice (PhD level -- SGISD)
搂 Advanced Topics in Human Rights: Human Rights, Intersectionality, and the Politics of Memory) (Advanced undergraduate, MA & PhD levels)
搂 International Responses & Organizations (PhD level-- SGISD)
搂 ABD Support Seminar (PhD level 鈥� SGISD, non-credit).
Clark University
Undergraduate Courses
搂 Advanced Topics in International Development: International Feminist Thinking and Action
Graduate (MA level) Courses
搂 Gender, Politics and Development in Africa
搂 The History and Politics of International Development
搂 Theorizing Women, Gender and Development
The New School University
Undergraduate Courses
搂 Gender and Conflict: Women, Peace and Security in the Middle East and Africa
搂 Refugees and Forced Migration
Additional Information
Nada Mustafa Ali is a scholar, practitioner and an activist whose scholarship spans the fields of comparative politics, women's, gender, and feminist studies, development studies, and African and Middle Eastern studies. She has written extensively in both English and Arabic. She is the author of Gender, Race and Sudan Exile Politics, and of numerous book chapters, journal articles, and academic and policy reports. Nada is a Fellow of the Rift Valley Institute, and an Advisory Board Member of the African Feminist Initiative.
Before joining the Faculty of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, Nada has taught at several universities including the New School for Social Research and Clark University. She has been a visiting scholar or research fellow at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, the International Centre for Research on Women, and at African Studies at Fordham University. She has given talks and lectures in numerous universities and policy and activist in and outside the United States.
In addition to her academic career, Nada has worked as a researcher or consultant at a number of international and grassroots organizations and UN agencies. She has worked as the Women's Program Coordinator at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies in Egypt, and as the Africa Women's Rights Researcher at Human Rights Watch. She has consulted for a range of organizations and agencies including UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, US Institute of Peace, the Small Arms Survey, Al-Manar, and the South Sudan Women's Empowerment Network.
Current Research
- Gender, Conflict, and the politics of Peacebuilding in Sudan and South Sudan
- Gender Social Media, Social Movements and Social Change
- Gender and HIV/AIDS
Courses Taught at 91视频
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department
- Introduction to Human Rights
- Gender, Development and Globalization
- Gender in Global Context
- Research Seminar
- Women, Culture and Identity
- Women in African Cultures
- Advanced Topics in Human Rights
Honors College
- Global Health and Inequalities
- Gender, Conflict and Refugees
School for Global Inclusion and Social Development
- International Organizations and Social Development MA/PhD level'
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies
- Gender and Human Security PhD level.
Courses Taught Elsewhere
Undergraduate
- Introduction to Feminist Theory
- Gender and Conflict: Women, Peach and Security in the Middle East and Africa
- Refugees and 'Forced' Migration
MA Level
- Advanced Issues in International Development: International Feminist Thinking and Action
- Development Theory
- Gender, Politics and Development in Africa
- Theorizing Women, Gender and Development
Feminist Qualitative Research Methods
Additional Information
Academic Appointments at 91视频
September
2024-present Assistant Professor, Global Inclusion and Social Development.
2021-2024 Senior Lecturer, Women鈥檚, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department (WGS).
2021-2022 Director of the Human Rights Program.
2020-2022 Senior Research Fellow, Center for Governance and Sustainability.
2012-2020 Faculty Fellow, Center for Governance and Sustainability.
2019-2020 Director of the Human Rights Program.
2017-2018 Visiting Associate Professor, WGS Department.
2013-2021 Lecturer, WGS Department.
2019-2024 Affiliate Faculty, the McCormack Graduate School of Politics and Public Policy,
91视频 & The School for Social Inclusion and Social Development.
Academic Appointments at other Universities
Visiting Professor, Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Program, Clark University
Visiting Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change (IDSC), Department of International Development, Community, and the Environment (IDCE), Clark University
Part-time Faculty, Global Studies, the New School for Social Research
Visiting Scholar, Africana Studies Department, Fordham University
Research Associate, Five Colleges Women鈥檚 Studies Research Center
Research Fellow, the International Center for Reserch on Women
Biography
Nada Mustafa Ali is an Assistant Professor of Critical Inclusion Studies in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development (SGISD) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (91视频) in the US. She is an interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary educator, researcher and writer who uses critical theory (from a Black feminist perspective) to engage with questions of power and the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, social class, disability, and other aspects of difference in Sudan, South Sudan, and beyond. Her research covers the overlapping themes of informality, feminisms in the global South; the politics of knowledge production, conflict, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction; global health and human rights; digitality, climate change, and social and 'grassroots' movements organizing. The running thread in these themes is local and global (in)equalities, and the politics of solidarity and care.
Before joining SGISD, Dr. Ali taught in the Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and in the Global Governance and Human Security program at 91视频. She was Visiting Assistant Professor and Visiting Professor at Clark University, Visiting Associate Professor at 91视频, and Part time faculty in Global Studies at the New School University. Dr. Ali also held several research fellow or associate positions in the US, including as Senior Fellow in the Center for Governance and Sustainability at 91视频. She worked or served in various capacities in a range of local, regional (Middle East & Horn of Africa) and international agencies and research organizations. Most recently, in 2024, she served as Senior Gender Advisor to the European Union鈥檚 Delegation to Sudan. Dr. Ali is a member of the African Feminist Initiative & an elected fellow of the Rift Valley Institute.
Dr. Ali has written extensively and published in both Arabic and English. She is the author of Gender, Race and Sudan's Exile Politics: Do We All Belong to this Country? (Lexington Books, 2015). She has published numerous book chapters, and articles in peer reviewed journals. Her current book project focuses on Women Street Vendors and their Cooperatives in 21st Century Sudan. Dr. Ali is the recipient of the 2025/2026 Endowed Faculty Career Award from the Leadership Council of 91视频鈥檚 Retired Faculty Council.
Dr. Ali currently chairs or co-chairs the doctoral dissertation committees of five students. She is member of several doctoral committees.
Originally from Sudan, Dr. Ali received her PhD in Government (Development Studies) from the University of Manchester in the UK. She has a BA (Hon.) and an MA from the University of Khartoum, and the American University in Cairo respectively, both in Political Science.
Area of Expertise
Gender and development; governance; human rights; militarization and post-conflict settings; HIV/AIDS; feminist theories and methodologies; the Middle East and Africa, including Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, and Egypt
Degrees
PhD, Government, Development Studies Stream, University of Manchester, UK
MA, Political Science, American University in Cairo, Egypt
BA (Hon.), Political Science, University of Khartoum, Sudan
Degrees
PhD in Government (Development Studies Stream), Manchester University, United Kingdom
MA in Political Science, American University in Cairo, Egypt
BA, Honors in Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Social Studies, University of Khartoum, Sudan.
Professional Publications & Contributions
Gender, Race and Sudan's Exile Politics: Do We All Belong to this Country? (Lexington Books, 2015).
Sudanese Women's Groups on Facebook and #Civil Disobedience: Nairat or Thairat? (Radiant or Revolutionary?). African Studies Review, (62(2), 2019. 103-126.
Women, Gender, and Human Rights. In Srikanth, R and Chowdhury, E. (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights. (Routledge, 2019).
Professional Publications & Contributions
Books
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2015). Gender, Race, and Sudan鈥檚 Exile Politics: Do We All Belong to this Country? Maryland, Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield, now Bloomsbury).
Selected Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals/Selected Reports
Ali, Nada Mustafa (forthcoming, 2026). Foreword. In Sudan in the Context of Polycrisis. The Arab Council for the Social Sciences鈥� Beirut School of Critical Security Studies. Beirut Lebanon.
Ali, Nada Mustafa (2026). Academic Freedom in Times of War: Case of the Sudan. Review of Middle Eastern Studies. June.
Ali, Nada Mustafa (2024). Khartoum鈥檚 Women Street Vendor Cooperatives and the Politics of Care. In MERIP: Middle East Research and Information Project. Spring.
Ali, Nada Mustafa and Naglaa Abdulwahid (2022). Women Farmers and Food Sovereignty in a No War No Peace Situation: Case of Sudan鈥檚 South Kordofan. The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. Special issue on Contemporary Conflict. (Summer).
Ali, Nada Mustafa et. al. (2022). Gender and Social Change in Sudan: Experiences of Women Street Vendors in Khartoum and Port Sudan and Women Farmers in South Kordofan. DSRI, University of Khartoum, Sudan, and Economic Research Forum (Egypt). (Peer reviewed report).
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2019). Women鈥檚 Groups on Facebook and Sudan鈥檚 November 2016 #Civil Disobedience: Nairat or Thairat? (Glamorous or Revolutionary?). African Studies Review (special issue on The Body and Aesthetics in Africa). 62(2), pp. 103-126. (In the top 5% of all research scored by Almetric).
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2016). Sudan After al-Turabi: Understanding the Gendered Legacy of Islamism in Sudan and Beyond. In Hawaa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World. 14(1), 3-19.
Ali, Nada Mustafa and Edward Thomas. (2015). Development Deferred: Implementation of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement. Geneva, Switzerland: Small Arms Survey. Peer reviewed report (also available in Arabic)
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2011). Gender and State-building in South Sudan. Washington, DC, US Institute of Peace (Special Report).
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2005). Peace, Conflict, and Democratization in Sudan: A Gender Perspective. In Ruwaq Arabi: Periodical of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. No. 38-9, CIHRS, Cairo, Egypt. Pp. 183-192. (in Arabic).
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2005). Sudanese Women in the Diaspora and 鈥楨ndangering Peace鈥� in Sudan. In Forced Migration Review, Oxford, UK, No. 24, November (Special issue on Sudan: Prospects for Peace)
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2003). Thorny Issues and Perilous Coalitions: Addressing Women鈥檚 Human Rights in the Context of Conflict and the Struggle to Restore Democracy in Sudan (1989-2000). In Al-Raida (Institute for Women鈥檚 Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University, Special Issue on Women and War), Vol. XXI, No. 103.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2000). Meet Mary Apai: Gender, Culture, and Conflict in Sudan. In Agenda (Taylor and Francis, Special issue on women in the aftermath of war), Vol. 16, No. 43.
Refereed Book Chapters
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2026). Women, Gender and Human Rights. In Elora Chowdhury and Rajini Srikanth (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights. London, Routledge (updated for the second edition).
Ali, Nada Mustafa (Forthcoming). Gender, Intersectionality, and Sudan鈥檚 Conflicts. In Souad T. Ali et. al. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Sudan鈥檚 Civil Wars. Cambridge University Press.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2021). Body Aesthetics and Beauty Politics in Sudan. In Maxine B. Craig (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics. London, Routledge.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2020). Gender and post-Comprehensive Peace Agreement Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in South Sudan. In Sarah M.H. Nouwen et. al. (eds.) Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond. Oxford University Press/the British Academy.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2019). Women, Gender and Human Rights. In Elora Chowdhury and Rajini Srikanth (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights. London, Routledge.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2013). Making Sense of Sudan鈥檚 Conflicts. in John M. Michalczyk and Raymond G. Helmick, SJ. (eds.) Through a Lens Darkly: Films of genocide, ethnic cleansing and atrocities. New York, Peter Lang.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2012). Women and HIV/AIDS in South Sudan. in F. Bubenzer and O. Stern (eds.) Hope Pain, and Patience: The lives of women in South Sudan. Johannesburg, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation & Jacana Press.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2007). Hidden in the Mealie-Meal: Gender-based Abuses and Women鈥檚 HIV Treatment in Zambia. (Policy Report) New York, Human Rights Watch.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (1999). Women鈥檚 Rights Between International Conventions and Islamic Schools of Thought: A Commentary. in O. Al-Garray (ed.) Women鈥檚 Rights Between International Conventions and Islamic Schools of Thought. Cairo, Egypt, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. (in Arabic).
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (1998). Survival, Empowerment and the Invisible Economy: Five cases from Atbara, Sudan. In R. Lobban (ed.) Women in the Middle Eastern Invisible Economy. Gainesville, University of Florida Press. (based on my MA research with street vendors in Atbara, Sudan)
Encyclopedia Entries
Ali, Nada Mustafa.(forthcoming, accepted in 2023). The Sudanese Women鈥檚 Movement: 1952-2005 in Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women鈥檚 History. Edited by Dorothy Hodgson et. al. (Part of Oxford Research Encyclopedias ed. Thomas Spear et. al.) Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2016). Feminisms: North Africa. In Nancy Naples et. al. (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexualities Studies. Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell Press.
Selected Book Reviews
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2021). Review of Hawks and Doves in Sudan's Armed Conflict by Suad Musa. In Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. (Published by Cambridge University Press). 91(2), March.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2020). Review of Migration in A Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana edited by Mariama Awumbila, Delali Badasu, and Joseph Teye. Research Africa (online). Duke University Press.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2017). Review of Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh by Elora Halim Chowdhury. Hypatia. 32(2) (Summer).
Selected Public Scholarship
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2019). The Victories and Continuing Struggles of Women in the Sudan. In The Conversation. June 18.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2012). Hope, Pain and Patience: Sex Workers and HIV in South Sudan. Open Democracy. January 22.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2011). 鈥楳ighty be our Powers鈥�: Peace and Women in the Global South. Open Democracy.
Ali, Nada Mustafa. (2011). Independence Day Blues. My Sister鈥檚 Keeper Newsletter. Autumn.
2026 Sudan鈥檚 War and the Fate of the Revolution A Crown Conversation with Nada Ali and Anna Reumert. Organized and edited by Ramyar Rossoukh. Brandeis University, USA. January (published in March). Invited and paid.
2025 The Impact of Sudan鈥檚 Ongoing War on Women and Communities: Displacement, Gender-Based Violence, and the Humanitarian Crisis. A presentation at a Webinar titled: Sudan's Power Struggle: Humanitarian Catastrophe, Foreign Interventions, and Ways Forward. Organized by Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University & Arab Center Washington DC. July 31st. Invited.
2025 鈥淕ender and Climate Change in the MENA Region鈥� (with Dr. Racha Ramadan, Cairo University), Cairo. Regional Conference on Transition to Clean Energy, Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt. February 4-5. Invited and paid.
2024 鈥淪udan Gender Assessment: Findings and Key Recommendations鈥� A virtual presentation to Sudan鈥檚 Donors鈥� Forum (EU, US, UK representatives and others). October 17th.
2024 鈥淲e Are Still Here: Sudan Country Gender Assessment.鈥� A virtual debriefing for the European Union鈥檚 Delegation to Sudan (with Nazik Abbas). September 30th.
2023 鈥淭he Conflict in Sudan: Will the Humanitarian Ceasefire Translate to A Political Resolution?鈥� Webinar organized by the Arab Center, Washington DC. June 1st.
Invited
2023 鈥淨ualitative Data Collection Plan for Sudan鈥檚 Case Study: A Commentary鈥� July 13. (Discussant in the Webinar on Sudan鈥檚 Case Study: Equitable, Sustainable Development in the Context of Transition to Clean Energy), organized by ERF & partners. Invited.
2022 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Education and Labor Force Participation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region.鈥� Presentation to members of the Commission on Stabilization and Reform in the MENA Region. (Convened by the Economic Research Forum and Paris School of Economics). June 27. (Virtual - invited and paid).
2021 鈥淟ooking Forward: Challenges for the People of Sudan鈥� Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University. Nov 3. (Virtual 鈥� invited and paid).
2021 "Sit Al-Shai (Women Tea-Sellers/Street Vendors): Epistemological Insights on Gender and Sudan's 2018/2019 Uprising and Transition.鈥� Panel on Gender, Transformation, and Politics (inaugural event of the 鈥淩ethinking Social Movements in the Arab World.鈥� program). Institute for Social Science Research in Algeria and partners. Virtual, invited.
2020 鈥淕ender and Social Movements, Social Media and Social Change in 厂耻诲补苍.鈥�&#虫补0;Presented at the Symposium on the Revival of Uprising in the Middle East and North Africa. Center for African Studies and Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. February 6. Invited
2020 鈥淩eflections on Sudan鈥檚 2018/2019 Uprising and Its Aftermath: A Gender & An Intersectional Perspective鈥� Lecture at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. (Scheduled for 24 March, cancelled due to COVID-19).
2019 鈥淲omen, Gender, and Sudan鈥檚 Uprising.鈥� Panel organized by the Sudanese Community
Association and the University of California in Berkley. October. Invited.
2019 鈥淣ew Voices from Sudan: Women, Gender, and Sudan鈥檚 2018/2019 Uprising,鈥� Watson
Institute, Brown University. October. Invited and paid.
2019 鈥淲e Learn from the Lessons of History and from the Experiences of Women: Lessons
from Sudan鈥檚 Previous Interim Periods.鈥� Virtual presentation (recorded) in a panel on
Women, Gender, and Challenges of the Interim Period in Sudan. Ministry of Higher
Education and Al-Nilein University, Khartoum (in Arabic). Invited.
2015&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;鈥�Gender, Militarization, and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in South
厂耻诲补苍.鈥�&#虫补0;Presented at the Workshop on Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South
Sudan: Ten Years after the 鈥淐omprehensive鈥� Peace Agreement. Cambridge, Pembroke
College, University of Cambridge, UK. September. Invited.
2012 鈥淎cts of Courage: African Women and Youth and the Quest for Social Justice and
Transformation in Africa鈥� Lecture Hosted by the African Students鈥� Organization, and
Women鈥檚 Issues, African History Month, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA. Invited.
2012 鈥淕ender and State-Building in South Sudan.鈥� Public Lecture at the Regional Centre for
Gender, Peace and Diversity, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan. January. Invited.
2010 鈥淕ender, Militarization, and Women in Sudan鈥� Lecture at Drew University, New Jersey. Invited.
2010 鈥淲omen, Gender and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a Focus on Sudan鈥� Lecture at
the Department of African and African American Studies. Fordham University, New York. May. Invited and paid.
2010 鈥淭horny Issues and Perilous Coalitions: Race, Gender, and the Sudanese Opposition in
Exile鈥� A talk at the Five College Women Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke
College, Massachusetts. 3 December. Presentation at the end of my fellowship.
2005 鈥淧eace, Conflict and Democratization in Sudan: A Gender Perspective (in Arabic). Paper
presented at the conference on Between War and Peace: The Role of Civil Society in
Peacekeeping and Development.鈥� Vloto, Germany. July 29-31. Invited.
2005 鈥淧eace, Conflict, and Economic Development in Eastern Sudan鈥� Paper presented at
the Sudan Focal Point-Europe Meeting. Hamburg, Germany, April 8-10. Invited.
2004 鈥淓ngaging with DfiD鈥檚 Sudan Country Engagement Plan鈥� Paper presented at the
Workshop on Gender and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Sudan鈥� UK House of
Commons, Westminster, London. March 16th.
Selected Academic Conference & Webinar Convenings and Presentations
2026 Convenor and presenter, Women鈥檚 Narratives of War and Peace in Sudan, SGISD, 91视频, March 26th. .
2026 Narratives of War and Peace in Sudan. Presentation at 91视频鈥檚 Retired Faculty Annual Luncheon, March 20th.
2025 Sudan鈥檚 2023 War: A Gender and an Intersectional Perspective. CEHD virtual Research Conversation, December 10.
2025 Academic Freedom in Times of War: Case of the Sudan. Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference (Invited. Panel sponsored by the Academic Freedom Committee). Washington D.C, November.
2025 Convenor and Chair of the Africa Now! Panel 鈥淚ndigenous Epistemologies, Gender, and Climate Justice in Africa.鈥� African Studies Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, November 20th. Panelists included Nicholas Johnson (PhD student, 91视频, and Yusria Mohamed and Awadeya Mahmoud Kuku, Street Vendor Cooperatives Leaders.
2025 War, Gender, and Climate Change in Sudan: An Intersectional Perspective (with Yusria Mohamed and Awadeya Koko). Africa Now! Panel 鈥淚ndigenous Epistemologies, Gender, and Climate Justice in Africa.鈥� African Studies Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, November 20th.
2025 Statement on The Impact of Conflict on Women with Disabilities in Sudan. Civil Society Forum ,18th session of The Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. New York, USA
2025 Women, Gender, and Human Rights. Lecture in the course 鈥淚ntroduction to Human Rights鈥� (Instructor; Ellen Busolo Millimu). April 11th.
2025 Gender, Intersectionality, and Transnational Organizing among Sudan and South Sudan Women Exiles. Virtual lecture in the course 鈥淩efugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging鈥� (Instructor: Anita Fabos). Clark University. February 28th. Paid.
2024 Sharing the Joy of Learning to Write and Writing to Learn. Virtual presentation at the end of the Writing Across the Curriculum program, 91视频, December.
2024 Conceptualized and convened a panel on Gender, Intersectionality, and Indigenous Epistemologies in Africa: Emerging Voices, African Studies Association鈥檚 annual conference, Chicago, IL, December 12鈥�14. All but one speaker were 91视频 graduate students or recent graduates.
2024 Convenor and speaker at an African Now! Session titled 鈥淣arratives on Sudan's Conflict鈥� at the ASA annual conference, Chicago, IL, December 12-14. Speakers included a civil society activist and researcher, and two leaders of cooperatives.
2023 Convenor of Africa Now! Panel 鈥淪udan鈥檚 Most Recent War: Causes, Impact, and Visions for the Future.鈥� November.
2022 Convenor of Panel on Sudan鈥檚 2018/2019 Uprising and its Aftermath: Movement- Building, Knowledge-Production, and A Feminist Politics of Care. African Studies Association Meeting, Philadelphia, November 16-19.
2022 Sitat Al-Shai (Women Street Vendors) in Sudan: Organizing, Resistance, and Politics of Care.African Studies Association Meeting, Philadelphia, November 16-19.
2020 Women, Peace and Security in Sudan. African Studies Association Virtual Meeting. 3 November .(Panel on Sudan, sponsored by ASA program chairs).
2019 This Revolution is a Girls鈥� Revolution & The Whole Country is Darfur: Identity, Belonging, and Sudan鈥檚 2018/2019 Uprising. African Studies Association Meeting, Boston, MA. 22 November.
2019 Social Media and Sudan鈥檚 2018/2019 Uprising: A Gender and a Feminist Perspective. National Women鈥檚 Studies Association. San Francisco, CA. 14 November.
2018 Saraha Wa Taqa Ijabia [Frankness and Positive Energy]: Sudanese Women鈥檚 #MeToo
Moments on Social Media, African Studies Association Meeting, Atlanta. (I
Convened this Panel on Power, Knowledge, and the Body in Africa). November.
2018 Nairat? or Thairat? (Glamorous or Revolutionary?): Sudanese Women鈥檚 Groups on
Facebook, National Women鈥檚 Studies Association Meeting, Atlanta. November.
2017 Convener of an Author Meets Critics panel on Gender, Race, and Sudan鈥檚 Exile Politics: Do
We All Belong to this Country? African Studies Association鈥檚 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
November.
2017 鈥淭heories that Travel Well: Intersectionality in Sudan and South Sudan鈥� National
Women鈥檚 Studies Association Meeting, Baltimore, MD. November.
2016 鈥淣airat or Thairat? (Glamorous or Revolutionary? Sudanese Women鈥檚 Groups on
Facebook.鈥� African Studies Association Meeting. Washington, DC. December. (Panel sponsored by the Women鈥檚 Caucus).
2016 鈥淕old Poured Off of her Hair鈥�: Interrogating Sudan鈥檚 Decolonial, Opposition Discourses
from a Feminist Perspective. National Women鈥檚 Studies Association meeting, Montreal, Canada. November.
2005 Race, Gender, and Gender-Based Violence in Darfur: Lessons and Recommendations.
Paper presented at the second Sudan Research Group Meeting on Governance
and Institutionalism in Sudan. London, University of East London. August 20-21.
2000 鈥淩evisiting the Universality versus Cultural Specificity Debate in Human Rights.鈥� Paper
presented at the Sudan Studies Association Meeting. University of Durham, UK. August.
1999 鈥楪endering Asmara 1995鈥�: Women and the Sudanese Opposition in Exile. Paper prepared
and circulated at the Aftermath: Women in Post-Conflict Situations in Africa Conference.
Johannesburg, South Africa. July 20-23.
1995 鈥淎rab Cultures and Human Rights: A Gender Perspective.鈥� Paper presented at the NGOs
Forum, UN Fourth International Conference on Women, Beijing, China, Aug. 30 鈥� Sept.8.
1995 鈥淭he impact of Culture on Women鈥檚 Socio-economic Rights in Arab Countries.鈥� Presented
at the UN World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 4-14.
1994 鈥淭oward Gender-Sensitive Health Policies in Sudan (in Arabic).鈥� Paper presented at the
Arab Regional Preparatory Conference for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women.
Amman, Jordan, November 2-5.
1994 鈥溾�楳y Tongue is Too Heavy鈥�: Local Languages as Tools of Domination.鈥� Paper presented at
the International Conference on Ngugi wa Thiongo: Texts and Contexts. Penn State
University. April 7-9 (based on my MA thesis).
Invited Keynote Lectures
2019&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;&#虫补0;鈥�Notes on Social Movement Activism to Achieve Gender Equality and Social Justice鈥� International Women鈥檚 Day Celebration, Ikeda Democracy Center. Cambridge, MA. March.
2018 鈥淪peaking Up and Out: Women Reshaping the Media Narrative.鈥� Presented at the 21st Annual Boston Area International Women鈥檚 Day event Simmons College, Boston, MA. March.
2017 鈥淕ender and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in South Sudan鈥� Haverford College, PA. March.
Teaching:
91视频
Spring 2026
GISD 804: Capstone Seminar (MA)
GISD 608: Research and Professional Ethics (PhD & MA)
Spring 2025
GISD 626: Global Health and Human Rights (PhD & MA)
GISD 804: Capstone Seminar (MA)
Fall 2024:
GISD 602: Research in Diverse Settings: Epistemic Justice (PhD & MA)
GISD 609: Global Justice (PhD & MA)
Fall 2013-Spring 2024
Undergraduate Courses
- Women in African Cultures
- Women and the Media
- Research Seminar in Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies (qualitative research methods course)
- Advanced Topics in Human Right: Human Rights, Intersectionality, and the Politics of Memory.
- Introduction to Human Rights
- Gender, Development and Globalization
- Gender in Global Context
- Women, Culture, and Identity
- Global Health and Human Rights
Graduate-Level Courses
搂 Gender and Human Security (PhD level)
搂 Global Justice (PhD level -- SGISD)
搂 Advanced Topics in Human Rights: Human Rights, Intersectionality, and the Politics of Memory) (Advanced undergraduate, MA & PhD levels)
搂 International Responses & Organizations (PhD level-- SGISD)
搂 ABD Support Seminar (PhD level 鈥� SGISD, non-credit).
Clark University
Undergraduate Courses
搂 Advanced Topics in International Development: International Feminist Thinking and Action
Graduate (MA level) Courses
搂 Gender, Politics and Development in Africa
搂 The History and Politics of International Development
搂 Theorizing Women, Gender and Development
The New School University
Undergraduate Courses
搂 Gender and Conflict: Women, Peace and Security in the Middle East and Africa
搂 Refugees and Forced Migration
Additional Information
Nada Mustafa Ali is a scholar, practitioner and an activist whose scholarship spans the fields of comparative politics, women's, gender, and feminist studies, development studies, and African and Middle Eastern studies. She has written extensively in both English and Arabic. She is the author of Gender, Race and Sudan Exile Politics, and of numerous book chapters, journal articles, and academic and policy reports. Nada is a Fellow of the Rift Valley Institute, and an Advisory Board Member of the African Feminist Initiative.
Before joining the Faculty of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, Nada has taught at several universities including the New School for Social Research and Clark University. She has been a visiting scholar or research fellow at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, the International Centre for Research on Women, and at African Studies at Fordham University. She has given talks and lectures in numerous universities and policy and activist in and outside the United States.
In addition to her academic career, Nada has worked as a researcher or consultant at a number of international and grassroots organizations and UN agencies. She has worked as the Women's Program Coordinator at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies in Egypt, and as the Africa Women's Rights Researcher at Human Rights Watch. She has consulted for a range of organizations and agencies including UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, US Institute of Peace, the Small Arms Survey, Al-Manar, and the South Sudan Women's Empowerment Network.
Current Research
- Gender, Conflict, and the politics of Peacebuilding in Sudan and South Sudan
- Gender Social Media, Social Movements and Social Change
- Gender and HIV/AIDS
Courses Taught at 91视频
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department
- Introduction to Human Rights
- Gender, Development and Globalization
- Gender in Global Context
- Research Seminar
- Women, Culture and Identity
- Women in African Cultures
- Advanced Topics in Human Rights
Honors College
- Global Health and Inequalities
- Gender, Conflict and Refugees
School for Global Inclusion and Social Development
- International Organizations and Social Development MA/PhD level'
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies
- Gender and Human Security PhD level.
Courses Taught Elsewhere
Undergraduate
- Introduction to Feminist Theory
- Gender and Conflict: Women, Peach and Security in the Middle East and Africa
- Refugees and 'Forced' Migration
MA Level
- Advanced Issues in International Development: International Feminist Thinking and Action
- Development Theory
- Gender, Politics and Development in Africa
- Theorizing Women, Gender and Development
Feminist Qualitative Research Methods
Additional Information
Academic Appointments at 91视频
September
2024-present Assistant Professor, Global Inclusion and Social Development.
2021-2024 Senior Lecturer, Women鈥檚, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department (WGS).
2021-2022 Director of the Human Rights Program.
2020-2022 Senior Research Fellow, Center for Governance and Sustainability.
2012-2020 Faculty Fellow, Center for Governance and Sustainability.
2019-2020 Director of the Human Rights Program.
2017-2018 Visiting Associate Professor, WGS Department.
2013-2021 Lecturer, WGS Department.
2019-2024 Affiliate Faculty, the McCormack Graduate School of Politics and Public Policy,
91视频 & The School for Social Inclusion and Social Development.
Academic Appointments at other Universities
Visiting Professor, Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Program, Clark University
Visiting Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change (IDSC), Department of International Development, Community, and the Environment (IDCE), Clark University
Part-time Faculty, Global Studies, the New School for Social Research
Visiting Scholar, Africana Studies Department, Fordham University
Research Associate, Five Colleges Women鈥檚 Studies Research Center
Research Fellow, the International Center for Reserch on Women