Nada Mustafa Ali

Nada Mustafa Ali is a feminist and an intersectional scholar who engages with questions about social change and transformation in Sudan and beyond through her teaching, research, and activism. Dr. Ali is an assistant professor of critical inclusion studies in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development and is a core faculty in the Human Rights Minor at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston).

Formerly, Dr. Ali taught at the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at UMass Boston. She also taught in the Global Studies Department at the New School University. She held visiting assistant professor and visiting professor positions at Clark University. She held research fellowship or associate positions at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, Fordham University, and the International Center for Research on Women.

Dr. Ali’s teaching covers the areas of gender, intersectionality, critical development studies, human rights, and qualitative research. Dr. Ali’s current research focuses on three overlapping areas. She is working on a book on the experiences of women street vendors who are organized in cooperatives. Her research includes a digital ethnography on women, social media, and activism in contemporary Sudan. Other areas of research include climate change, militarism, and global health in Sudan and South Sudan, and beyond.

Dr. Ali has written and published extensively in Arabic and English. Her book Gender, Race and Sudan's Exile Politics: Do We All Belong to this Country? Was published by Lexington Books, (an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, now Bloomsbury), in 2015.

In addition to her academic career, Dr. Ali is an activist and policy specialist who has worked or consulted for several UN agencies (including UNDP, UNFPA, and UN Women), research institutes, and international, regional and national civil society organizations.

Dr. Ali received her PhD in Government (Development Studies) from Manchester University 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.