He was co-editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies in 2011-2014. Watson Foundation and Freeman Foundation. Shah has received fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, van Humboldt Foundation, Thomas J. His articles cover a broad array of subjects and have been published in volumes on the history of gender, sexuality and empire pandemics and quarantine transnational history of science and emotions empire and intimacy in North America Asian American art and politics in California South Asian American diaspora history of Sexuality Queer and LGBT Studies, and Law and American Borderlands and Biopolitics and Citizenship. His research has appeared in American Quarterly, Social Text, GLQ, Amerasia Journal, Frontiers: Journal of Women’s History and Clio (France). Nayan Shah is the author of three books: Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001), Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (2012), and Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes (2022). Shah is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California. Nayan Shah is a historian whose books uncover how people struggle with illness, migration and incarceration in the United States and across the globe from the 19th century to the present.

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