Akemi Nishida
Assistant Professor, Disability and Human Development
Focus Areas
Office Phone
Office
1640 W. Roosevelt Rd., 716 DHSP
Mail Code
626
Office Hours
By appointment
About
Akemi Nishida uses research, education, and activism to investigate the ways in which ableism and saneism are exercised in relation to racism, sexism, and other forms of social injustices. She also uses such methods to work towards cross-community solidarity for the liberation and celebration of community power. In her research and teaching, Nishida brings together disability studies, critical race theories, transnational feminist studies, and among others. She is currently working on a book manuscript in which she merges affect theory with critical disability, gender, and race studies to examine state care programs as well as grassroots interdependent care collectives and bed activism. Nishida’s research has been funded by the American Association of University Women, among others. Her work has been published in Subjectivity, Multicultural Perspectives, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Occupy! n+1. Her commitment for disability and other social justices continues outside of academia as she works as a member of a national organization, The Disability Justice Collective as well as Chicago-based grassroots, AYLP. She is on the joint appointment with Gender and Women's Studies.
Selected Grants
American Association of University Women, International Fellowship,
UIC Institute for Race and Public Policy, Faculty Fellowship,
Selected Publications
“Relating through differences: Affective relationality of disabled care recipients and their paid care providers within the U.S. public healthcare assemblage”, Subjectivity
“Understanding politicization through an intersectionality framework: Life story narratives of disability rights and justice activists”, Disability Studies Quarterly
“Neoliberal academia and a critique from disability studies”, Occupying disability: Critical approaches to community, justice, and decolonizing disability
“Developing and reflecting on a Black Disability Studies pedagogy: Work from the National Black Disability Coalition”, Disability Studies Quarterly
Service to the Community
Advance Youth Leadership Power, Chicago, IL