Kate Nash
Professor
Sociology
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Kate Nash did a Sociology degree at City University as a mature student, completing in 1990, and then a PhD in the Department of Government at Essex University, finishing in 1995. Kate has been teaching in the Department since 1999. Kate is the co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, and a Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. In 2010, Kate was Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York and Vincent Wright Professor at Sciences Po, Paris. In 2016, Kate was Visiting Professor at the UN University for Peace, Costa Rica.
Research Interest
Kate is currently interested in a range of issues around human rights. At the moment, Kate is especially interested in researching how film – from feature length documentaries to clips on youtube and ‘found footage’ that is used in court – is made part of strategies and campaigns to raise awareness of human rights wrongs and to inform and mobilise action to address them.
Publications
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Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of "Women" Nash, Kate. 1998. Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of "Women". Basingstoke: Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-21004-3
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The Political Sociology of Human Rights Nash, Kate. 2015. The Political Sociology of Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521148474
