Ameera Nimjee

Ameera Nimjee works on the study of citizenship, race, and gender in transnational South Asian performance cultures. She is currently at work on two larger projects: on creativity in South Asian contemporary dance economies and performance traditions that have accompanied the migration of Muslims through South Asia, East Africa, and North America. Her essays have been published in Ethnologies and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, as well as anthologies on South Asian music, dance, and diasporic performance.

An integral part of Ameera’s scholarship is her practice of kathak dance, which she discusses and performs in the PBS documentary short “Kathak: Stories in Motion.” At Yale, she teaches the courses Music of South Asia, Sounding Contemporary, and Remapping Dance—co-taught with her colleagues Amanda Reid and Rosa van Hensbergen.