Sheila Nair Professor Office Hours: Office Address: SBS 306 Phone Number: 928-523-0180 Ph.D. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Sheila.Nair@nau.edu

International Relations; International Political Economy; International Aid; Human Rights; Immigration; Postcolonial Studies; Social Movements; Southeast Asia.

“The State of Malaysian Studies,” Critical Asian Studies, 37:1 (2005): 161-175.

Co-Editor with Geeta Chowdhry, Power, Postcolonialism and InternationalRelations: Reading Race, Gender and Class. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. (Paperback edition 2004).

Co-editor with Shampa Biswas, International Relations and States of Exception. London and New York: Routledge, 2010.

“Sovereignty, security and the exception: towards situating postcolonial 'homo sacer'” in Gerard Delanty and Stephen P. Turner, eds., Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory, 2011.

Dr. Nair’s most recent research focuses on the discourses of international aid and global governance. 

Courses Dr. Nair frequently teaches at the Undergraduate level include:
POS 120 World Politics
POS 370 Asian Politics: Southeast Asia
POS 380 Advanced International Relations
POS 421C Human Rights Issues (Senior Capstone)
POS 482 U.S. Foreign Policy (Undergraduate/Graduate)

Courses Dr. Nair frequently teaches at the Graduate level include:
POS 552 Political Economy
POS 676 Area Studies
POS 680 International Relations Theory
POS 683 Human Rights in International Relations
POS 684 Variable Topics