Nadine Naber

Dr. Naber is an award winning Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Her dedication to these fields has led to major awards including the Margaret Casey Foundation’s 2024 Freedom Scholars Award, American Studies Association’s 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award [The Oscars of academia!), the YWSA’s Y-Women’s Leadership Award, and the Silver Circle Teaching Award. She sits on the boards of both the National Council of Arab Americans and the National Council of Arab Americans. She has co-founded and led organizations such as the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association North America (AWSA NA) and Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity (MAMAS).

Dr. Naber is also the author/co-author of five books on race and gender, lead author of the 2023 report Beyond Erasure and Profiling: Cultivating Strong and Vibrant Arab American Communities. Dr. Naber is an expert author for the United Nations and is often quoted in places such as the New York Times, CBS News, the Guardian, and NPR.

As a public speaker and expert in her fields, she's given hundreds of talks at venues such as Chicago’s Field Museum, the United Nations, the Tides Foundation, Asia Society, Field Museum, the Chicago Department of Public Health, Harvard University, Georgetown University, New York University, TEDx, various law firms, and numerous libraries across the United States/internationally.