2026
Global Asia welcomes Farley Scholar Nalini Mohabir
We are pleased to welcome Nalini Mohabir as the Jack and Nancy Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar, January 2027 to August 2027.
Housed in Global Asia, this appointment is dedicated to teaching and stimulating discussions on stories of the past across disciplines. Farley Scholars normally teach one course or lead other types of relevant intellectual activities that are open to the public and students across the university.
Nalini Mohabir is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University. She is also the director of the at Concordia. Mohabir teaches in the fields of feminist and postcolonial geographies. She is a Caribbeanist, with a focus on Asian indentureship. Her work on indentureship is concerned with questions of diasporic return and its (im)possibilities; the implications of pivotal historical turning points for Afro-Indo Caribbean relations; and visual representation of indentureship and its legacies.
She has published articles in various journals and she has been working with long-time collaborator鈥疪onald Cummings (McMaster University), on a series of publications about the Sir George Williams student protest鈥� and an upcoming anthology on the visualities of the protest.鈥疶ogether with Cummings, she is the co-editor of Topia: A Canadian journal of Cultural Studies. She is also the Caribbean area editor for the Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas and a member of the editorial board of Trans Asia Photography.