Nandita Sharma is Professor of Racism, Migration and Transnationalism in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Her research interests address themes of human mobility, the production of the state categories (and political figures) of Native and Migrant, the national form of state power, ideologies of racism, nationalism and autochthony, processes of identification and self-understanding, and social movements for justice. Professor Sharma is an activist scholar whose research is shaped by the social movements she is active in, including No Borders movements and those struggling for the worldwide commons.
Professor Sharma is hosted by Professor Bridget Anderson, Sociology, Politics and International Studies and the Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB), during her visit she will be delivering events and collaborating on her research project 'The Hydra Rising', you can read more about this on Professor Sharma's IRP profile page.