Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
Respondent: Brooke White (Art and Design)
Dr. Nadine Naber is Professor and Head of Gender and Women's Studies at UIC, co-founder of Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity (MAMAS) and founder of Liberate Your Research Workshops. She is co-author of Radical Mothering: Caregiving and Resistance beyond Prison Walls (Haymarket, forthcoming), author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (NYU Press, 2012), and co-editor of Race and Arab Americans (Syracuse University Press, 2008); Arab and Arab American Feminisms, (Syracuse University Press, 2010); The Color of Violence (Duke University Press (2006) and “The Status of Racial Justice for Arab Americans” (IRRPP/UIC, 2022) She is a Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar (2024), a University of Illinois University Scholar (2025), and recipient of the Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Studies Association (2022).