Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2019 PhD Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto.
2013 MPhil Cultural Studies, University of the West Indies.
2007 BA Media and Communication University of the West Indies.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2024 – Present
Committee Member, Office of International Programs International Partnership Taskforce, Colorado State University
2024 – Present
Committee Member, Department of Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
2022 – Present
Director, The RaGE Collective, Department of Race, Gender and Ethnic Studies
2002 – Present
Co-Chair, Department of Race, Gender and Ethnic Studies Research Committee
2021 – 2022
Research Associate, Queer and Trans Research Lab, University of Toronto
2019 – 2022
Provost Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto
ACADEMIC AWARDS
2024
Caribbean Studies Association Author Celebration Certificate of Achievement
Granted to Caribbean Studies scholars for books published between 2023-2024.
2024
Inaugural Inclusive Excellence Faculty of the Year Award, Colorado State University.
Awarded to one faculty member who embodies principles of community inclusion, integrity, service, respect, and social justice.
2023
Black/ African American Cultural Center (BAACC) Special Friend Award, Colorado State University.
Awarded to a member of the university community in recognition of their academic leadership and community support.
PUBLISHED WORKS
Manuscripts:
Nikoli Attai. 2023. Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean. Rutgers University Press. ISBN: 9781978830356
Refereed Journal Articles:
Nikoli Attai. 2017. “Let’s Liberate the Bullers! Toronto Human Rights Activism and Implications for Caribbean Strategies.” In Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies Volume 42 No. 3. https://www.jecsonline.com/journals/volume-42-no-3-december-2017/
Refereed Chapters in Books:
Nikoli Attai. “Global North Homoimperialism and the Conundrum of Queer Asylum” In On Othering Processes and Politics of Unpeace, edited by Yasmin Saskia and Chad Haines. Athabasca University Press, Canada. https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771993869.01
Nikoli Attai, K. Nandini Ghisyawan, Rajanie Preity Kumar and Carla Moore, 2020. “Tales from the Field: Myths and Methodologies for Researching Same-Sex Desiring People in the Caribbean.” In Beyond Homophobia: Centering LGBT Experiences in the Caribbean, edited by Moji Anderson and Erin Macleod. UWI Press, Kingston Jamaica. ISBN 13:9789766407445.
Cornel Grey and Nikoli Attai. 2019. “Revisiting LGBT Rights in the Caribbean: Talking Across Difference.” In The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Studies, edited by Michael Bosia, Sandra M. McEvoy, and Momin Rahman. ISBN: 9780190673741.
Book Reviews:
NWIG 97-1&2 (2023)
Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan, Erotic Cartographies: Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. xii + 252pp. (Paper US$ 39.95) https://doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09701003
Island Studies Journal, 17(1), 2022, 306-319
Lyndon Gill (2018) Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean. 312 pp. Durham, Duke University Press. ISBN: 978-0822368700 (Paperback). US$25.95. https://islandstudiesjournal.org/issue/8165
Other Writing
Newspaper articles
2024
2018
Reports
2017
“Trinidad and Tobago School Climate Report: Bulling and Gender-Based Violence in Secondary Schools.” (Contributing author with Krystal Ghisyawan and Darren J. Glenn for the Silver Lining Foundation for Published the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Associated Schools Network Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)