Education:
B.A. Anthropology and South Asian Studies, York University, School of Liberal Arts 鈥� Toronto
Ph.D., Sociology, University of the West Indies 鈥� St. Augustine, Trinidad
Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan is an Indo-Trinidadian queer scholar-activist, working alongside the Silver Lining Foundation, an LGBTQ anti-bullying organization.
Areas of Interest:
My work uncovers the intersections of racial, ethnic and queer identities with space-making praxes, agency, activism and spirituality, with the concept of 鈥溾�漵ubjectivity鈥濃�� being central to much of what I do. I focus on the Caribbean region, but more specifically on the Anglophone Caribbean, further narrowed by my research efforts in Trinidad and Tobago, where I am from, and with South Asian descendants (of whom I am one), and Hindus, the religious community wherein I was raised. My publications tend to focus on one of these geographic and demographic categories, and typically engage one or more of these themes/topics.
Courses taught:
- Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101)
- Race and Ethnicity in the US (SOC 306)
- Crime and Deviance (SOC 205)
- Sexualities and Society (SOC 206/WGS 206)
Honors and Awards:
- Gordon and Sybil K. Lewis award at the Caribbean Studies Association for her book Erotic Cartographies: Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination (2022, Rutgers University Press)
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- Edited Collection:
Later Life Sex and Intimacy in the Majority World.聽Edited by: Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan (independent academic); Debra Harley (University of Kentucky); Shanon Shah (University College London); and Paul Simpson (Sociology, University of Manchester). Under contract with Polity Press. 2024
- Peer-Reviewed Articles:
2023. 鈥淢irrors and Murals: Reflections on Embodied and State Violence.鈥澛�South Asian Popular Culture. Special Issue: LGBTQ Popular Cultures in Contemporary South Asia and its Diasporas: Queer Lives in the Times of New Authoritarianisms.
2020. 鈥溾�� Co-authored with Preity Kumar, in Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies 4(2), pp.87鈥�105. DOI: http://doi.org/10.23870/marlas.292
2018. 鈥淧achr膩t song tradition and ritual agency in Trinidad.鈥� Co-authored with Natasha Mahabir, in Nid膩n: International Journal for Indian Studies. Volume 3, No. 2, December 2018, pp. 1-17
2016. 鈥溾�� Journal of International Women鈥檚 Studies 17(3), 17-31.
2014-2015. 鈥溾�� Sargasso and Caribbean IRN Special Collection: Love | Hope | Community: Sexualities and Social Justice . I & II. 57-74
2013. 鈥溾�� Journal of the Department of Behavioural Sciences 3.1: 28鈥�43.
- Book Chapters:
2021. 鈥淒ecolonizing the Postcolonial Body in Diasporic Time and Space: South Asians in the Caribbean.鈥澛�, edited by Ahonaa Roy, 160-179. New York: Routledge.
2021. 鈥淪ubjective Mapping: A Brief Introduction.鈥澛�, edited by Kamala Kempadoo and Halimah A.F. DeShong, 325-347. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers.
2020. 鈥淭ales from the Field: Myths and Methodologies for researching Same-Sex Desiring People in the Caribbean.鈥� Co-authored with Nikoli Attai, Preity Kumar and Carla Moore, in聽, edited by Moji Anderson and Erin MacLeod, 19-36. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press.
2020. 鈥淐hapter Eleven: A Whole New World: Gender Norms, Islamophobia and Orientalism.鈥澛�, edited by Shearon Roberts, 181-196. London: The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group.
2016 鈥�(Un)Settling the politics of identity and sexuality among Indo-Trinidadian same-sex loving women鈥�.聽, edited by Lisa Outar and Gabrielle Hosein, 153-170. London: Palgrave.
2015. 鈥淨ueer(in) the Caribbean: The Trinidad experience鈥�. In, edited by Sruti Bala and Ashley Tellis, 161鈥�178. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- Guest Editor
June 2022. Chapter[s], a Newsletter by聽聽London. 鈥溾��
- Public Scholarship:
2024. 鈥淲hy school climate surveys matter鈥�. Editorial.聽. January 31. Co-author Gabrielle Jamela Hosein.
2015. 鈥淔orging space: Scholars expanding the field of Indo-Caribbean feminist thought鈥�. Stabroek News. November 16
2015. 鈥淭olerance and Equality: If not now, when?鈥� UWI Today. July 2015.
2015. 鈥淲omen in Men鈥檚 Political Games鈥�. Stabroek News. July 6
- Reports:
2019.听. Port of Spain: The Silver Lining Foundation.
2017.听. Port of Spain: UNESCO ASPnet
- Workshop Manuals:
2018. Diversity Management and Conflict Resolution: A Teacher Training Manual. Port of Spain: The Silver Lining Foundation and Sexual Cultures of Justice
2018. Diversity Management and Conflict Resolution: A Teacher Training Manual.聽. Port of Spain: The Silver Lining Foundation and Sexual Cultures of Justice
- Pedagogical Tools:
2018.听. Digital Libraries of the Caribbean: Teaching Guides and Materials.聽
