Dr. Andrew S. Nelson
University of North Texas
Anthropology
(940) 369-7854
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Education

PhD, University of Virginia, 2013.
Major: Anthropology
Dissertation Title: Four Ana and One Modern House a Spatial Ethnography of Kathmandus Urbanizing Periphery
MA, University of Virginia, 2008.
Major: Anthropology
MA, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2004.
Major: Anthropology of Media
BA, Grinnell College, 2000.
Major: Anthropology

Professional Positions

Academic - Post-Secondary
Instructor, University of Virginia. (2006 – 2011).

Professional Memberships

Member, American Nepal & Himalayan Studies Association. (2014 – Present).

Member, Society for Applied Anthropology. (2014 – Present).

Reviewer, Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS). (2013 – Present).

Research Affiliate, South Asia Institute, University of Texas-Austin. (2012 – Present).

Member, American Anthropological Society. (2009 – Present).

Member, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA). (2009 – Present).

Editorial Board Adviser, The International Journal of the History of Sport. (2008 – 2010).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
ANTH 1010, Introduction to Anthropology, 6 courses.
ANTH 1150, World Cultures Through Film, 21 courses.
ANTH 2300, Culture and Society, 7 courses.
ANTH 3700, Peoples and Cultures of South Asia, 8 courses.
ANTH 4011, Anthropological Fieldmethods, 5 courses.
ANTH 4021, Development of Anthropological Thought, 1 course.
ANTH 4701, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, 8 courses.
ANTH 4760, Inequality, Social Justice and the City, 4 courses.
ANTH 4900, Special Problems, 5 courses.
ANTH 4910, Special Problems, 1 course.
ANTH 4920, Internship in Anthropology, 3 courses.
ANTH 5021, Anthropological Thought and Praxis II, 9 courses.
ANTH 5031, Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods, 6 courses.
ANTH 5300, Migrants and Refugees, 8 courses.
ANTH 5700, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, 5 courses.
ANTH 5760, Advanced Studies in Urban Anthropology, 2 courses.
ANTH 5900, Special Problems, 12 courses.
ANTH 5910, Special Problems, 4 courses.
ANTH 5950, Applied Thesis, 41 courses.

Non-Credit Instruction

Workshop, Graduate Anthropology Student Association, 15. (2019 – 2019).

Workshop, Graduate Anthropology Student Association, 25. (2017 – 2017).

Seminar, 100. (2016 – 2016).

Seminar, UNT CLEAR, 50. (2016 – 2016).

Seminar, 10. (2015 – 2015).

Seminar, UNT CLEAR, 100. (2015 – 2015).

Seminar, UNT CLEAR, 30. (2015 – 2015).

Directed Student Learning

Dissertation Committee Member, Political Science. (2023 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2023 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2023 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2023 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2023 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2023 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2023 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2023 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2021 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Co-Chair, Anthropology. (2021 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2021 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2021 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2021 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2020 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Co-Chair, Anthropology. (2020 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2020 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (2019 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2019 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2021 – 2023).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Geography and the Environment. (2021 – 2023).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2021 – 2023).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2021 – 2023).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2021 – 2023).

Dissertation Committee Member, Sociology. (2020 – 2023).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2018 – 2023).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Geography and the Environment. (2021 – 2022).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2020 – 2022).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2020 – 2022).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2019 – 2022).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2019 – 2022).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2019 – 2022).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2019 – 2022).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2018 – 2022).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2017 – 2022).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2020 – 2021).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2020 – 2021).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2018 – 2021).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2018 – 2021).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2017 – 2021).

Master's Thesis Committee Co-Chair, Anthropology. (2017 – 2021).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2020 – 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2019 – 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2019 – 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2019 – 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2018 – 2020).

Dissertation Committee Member, Sociology. (2017 – 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Co-Chair, Anthropology. (2017 – 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2017 – 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2017 – 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2016 – 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Co-Chair, Anthropology. (2016 – 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2018 – 2019).

Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Philosophy and Religion. (2018 – 2019).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Geography and the Environment. (2017 – 2019).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2016 – 2019).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2015 – 2019).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2014 – 2019).

Supervised Research, Honors College. (2018 – 2018).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2017 – 2018).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2017 – 2018).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Media Arts. (2017 – 2018).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2016 – 2018).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2016 – 2017).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2016 – 2017).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Geography and the Environment. (2015 – 2017).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (2015 – 2016).

Master's Thesis Committee Co-Chair, Anthropology. (2015 – 2016).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (2014 – 2016).

Master's Thesis Committee Co-Chair, Anthropology. (2014 – 2015).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Bibliography
Onta, P., Nelson, A. S., Linder, B., Maharjan, M. R. (2019). Some Recent Articles on Kathmandu: A Short Bibliography. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari. http://www.martinchautari.org.np/files/bibliography/Some-Recent-Articles-on-Kathmandu_A-Short-Bibliography_CBS-2016-3.pdf
Book
Nelson, A. S., Curran, R. (2022). Journey Without End: Migration from the Global South through the Americas. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826504852/journey-without-end/
Nelson, A. S., Rödlach, A., Willems, R. (2018). The Crux of Refugee Resettlement: Rebuilding Social Networks. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498588898/The-Crux-of-Refugee-Resettlement-Rebuilding-Social-Networks
Book Chapter
Nelson, A. S. (2022). Seeking Samaj: Refugee Resettlement Beyond Self-Sufficiency and Dispersal. Loss, Transition and Resilience: Refugee Struggles to Retain Dignity and Self-Sufficiency in the United States. 138-152. Routledge.
Nelson, A. S. (2021). The Free Trade Zone and the Ethnic Restaurant: South Asian Emergent Space in a Chilean City of Labor Migrants. Emergent Spaces: Change and Innovation in Small Urban Spaces. 85-104. Palgrave Macmillan.
Nelson, A. S. (2018). 'There Will Never Be a Foreclosure in Our Community': Networks of Dependence in the Secondary Relocation of Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees. The Crux of Refugee Resettlement: Rebuilding Social Networks. 215-235. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Nelson, A. S. (2018). Between Here and There: The Accidental South Asian Diaspora of Quito, Ecuador. Porous Borders, Invisible Boundaries? Ethnographic Perspectives on the Vicissitudes of Contemporary Migration. 111-116. Society for Urban, National, Transnational and Global Anthropology. http://sunta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Porous-Borders-Invisible-Boundaries.Nov_.2018.pdf
Nelson, A. S., Rödlach, A., Willems, R. (2018). Introduction. The Crux of Refugee Resettlement: Rebuilding Social Networks. xv-xxxiv. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Nelson, A. S. (2011). “‘No Horn Please’: Sociality and Self-Governance in a Kathmandu Housing Colony.”. Urban Navigations: Politics, Space, and the City in South Asia. 213-238. New Delhi, India and Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Book Review
Nelson, A. S. (2021). Book Review of Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York. Other. 80(1), . https://asianethnology.org/articles/2349
Nelson, A. S. (2018). Review of Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal. Himalaya. 38(1), 216-217. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol38/iss1/31/
Nelson, A. S. (2017). Review of Refugees of Shangri-La. Himalaya. 37(1), 159-161. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss1/30/
Nelson, A. S. (2016). The Brave New World of Ethnicity in Nepal: A Review of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal: Identities and Moblization after 1990, edited by Mahendra Lawoti and Susan Hangen..
Nelson, A. S. (2015). Review of Mediating the Global: Expatria's Forms and Consequences in Kathmandu by Heather Hindman.. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aman.12314
Critical Review
Nelson, A. S. (2023). Comment on Shneiderman et al., “House, Household, and Home: Revisiting Anthropological and Policy Frameworks through Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Experiences in Nepal". Other. 64(5), 519-520.
Journal Article
Nelson, A. S. (2023). Going to 'Let-in America': The Transit Tactics in Nepali Labor Migration to/through Latin America. Studies in Nepali History and Society. 28(1), 3-34.
Nelson, A. S., Stam, K. (2021). Bhutanese or Nepali? The Politics of Ethnonym Ambiguity. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 44(4), 772-789. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00856401.2021.1951460
Nelson, A. S. (2020). From Romance to Tragedy: House Ownership and Relocation in the Resettlement Narratives of Nepali Bhutanese Refugees. Journal of Refugee Studies.
Nelson, A. S. (2019). Architectural Tradition and Modernity as Crypto-Colonial Ways of Seeing: a Comparison of Kathmandu's 1934 and 2015 Post-quake Reconstructions. History Compass. 17(8), . https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hic3.12587
Nelson, A. S. (2018). Dalal Middlemen and Peri-Urbanisation in Nepal. Economic and Political Weekly. 53(12), 61-67. https://www.epw.in/journal/2018/12/special-articles/dalal-middlemen-and-peri-urbanisation-nepal.html
Nelson, A. S. (2017). Betrayed by the Neoliberal State, Neglected by the “Jangali” Company: The Anxiety of Autonomy in an Elite Housing Colony in Kathmandu, Nepal. City & Society. 29(1), 35-58. Wiley-Blackwell. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12111
Nelson, A. S. (2017). Prestigious Houses or Provisional Homes? The ghar as a Symbol of Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urbanism. Himalaya. 37(1), 57-71. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss1/11/
Nelson, A. S. (2015). Land and Ethnicity in a Time of Urbanization: The Case of Plot #7 in Western Kathmandu Valley. Studies in Nepali History and Society. 20(2), 249-277.
Nelson, A. S. (2012). Khattam Kathmandu: The Question of Place in Samrat Upadhyay’s Fiction. Studies in Nepali History and Society. 17(1), 3-23.
Nelson, A. S. (2009). From ‘Unmodern Sherpas’ to Madhesi Cricketers: Towards a History of Nepali Sport. The International Journal of the History of Sport. 28(12), 1823-1839.
Magazine/Trade Publication
Nelson, A. S. (2009). “The Rise of Interior Designing, or Why Kathmandu Architects Hate Vastu Shastra.”. Other.
Nelson, A. S. (2009). “The New Kathmandu of Housing.”. Other.
Nelson, A. S. (2009). “Re-thinking the Social Meaning of Nepali Architecture.”. Other.
Nelson, A. S. (2009). “Anthropology, the City, and Kathmandu.”. Other.
Newsletter
Nelson, A. S., Nunez-Janes, M. E., Re Cruz, A. (2020). An Invitation to a Sentipensante Practice through Experiential Learning at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Other.
Nelson, A. S. (2013). “Teaching Nepal in the American Classroom.”. 1, . South Asia News (University of Virginia's Center for South Asian Studies Newsletter).
Newspaper
Nelson, A. S., Curran, R. (2023). Denton should do more to protect renters. Dallas Morning News.
Nelson, A. S., Curran, R. (2020). She cooks the native dishes of global migrants who stream through Mexico. Dallas Morning News. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/02/23/she-cooks-the-native-dishes-of-the-global-immigrants-who-stream-through-mexico/
Nelson, A. S., Curran, R. (2020). The Border has shifted 2000 miles to the south. Dallas Morning News. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/02/23/the-border-crisis-continues-only-now-migrants-wait-2000-miles-south/
Nelson, A. S., Curran, R. (2019). An Arrival, but not an Ending. Dallas Morning News. https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-dallas-morning-news/20190623/283420603163767
Nelson, A. S., Curran, R. (2018). 12,000 Miles to America: 3-part commentary. Dallas Morning News. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/11/04/worlds-longest-migration-route-ends-texas
Nelson, A. S. (2015). Classquake: What the Global Media missed in Nepal Earthquake Coverage. The Conversation. http://theconversation.com/classquake-what-the-global-media-missed-in-nepal-earthquake-coverage-41063
Other
Nelson, A. S. (2013). “The Mobility of Permanence: The Process of Relocating to Kathmandu.”. Kathmandu, Nepal: Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility.
Research Report
Nelson, A. S., Williams, M., Thomas, A. (2023). 2022 City of Denton Evictions Report.
Nelson, A. S. (2021). Doubling Up in College as an Adaptation to Student Housing Insecurity (with students of ANTH 5031).
Nelson, A. S. (2020). House of Cards: College Student Housing Insecurity during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic (with ANTH 5031 students). UNT Dean of Students.
Nelson, A. S. (2019). A ‘Necessary Evil’ reflective of a ‘Broken Promise’: An Ethnography of Student Debt Discontent (With students of ANTH 5031). Washington, D.C.: New America.
Nelson, A. S. (2017). (with ANTH 4011 students) Planning Town-Gown Relations: An Ethnographic Study of Denton’s University Neighborhood District.. City of Denton.
Nelson, A. S. (2017). (with ANTH 5031 students) Working with Affordable Housing: An Ethnography of Seekers/Recipients of Housing Assistance. Washington, D.C.: National Housing Conference.
Nelson, A. S., Morrison, J. (2016). Dallas National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (HET4) Primary Data Formative Research Report. Texas Department of State Health Services and Texas A&M Public Policy Research Institute.
Nelson, A. S. (2014). Dallas National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (MSM4) Primary Data Formative Research Report. Texas Department of State Health Services and Texas A&M Public Policy Research Institute.
Webpage
Nelson, A. S. (2015). ‘We need an even bigger one’: Disasters of Inequality in Post-Quake Kathmandu Valley.. Aftershocked: Reflections on the 2015 Earthquakes in Nepal. Cultural Anthropology 'Hot Spots'. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/729-we-need-an-even-bigger-one-disasters-of-inequality-in-postquake-kathmandu-valley

Presentations Given

Invited Talk

Nelson, A. S. (Presenter), Curran, R. (Presenter), Book launch for Journey without End, Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America. (2022).

Nelson, A. S. (Presenter), Nepali Migration To/Through the Other America, Martin Chautari, Virtual, Nepal. (2021).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Neither Here Nor There: The Accidental South Asian Diaspora of Quito, Ecuador, South Asia Institute, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), South Asia Institute Seminars, From Newar Urbanism to Nepali Suburbanism: A Social History of Kathmandu's Sprawl, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America. (2013 – 2013).

Nelson, A. S. (Other), Martin Chautari, "Kathmanduko Nayabasti: Basāĩ-Sarāĩ, Planning, Pakki Ghar, ṭatha tol Samiti", Kathmandu, Nepal, Nepal. (2009 – 2009).

Nelson, A. S. (Other), Pitzer College, "Kathmandu's Three Stages of Urbanization", Kathmandu, Nepal, Nepal. (2009 – 2009).

Nelson, A. S. (Other), Tribhuvan University, Engineering Campus, "Four Ana, Two Children, and One Modern Ghar: An Ethnographic Approach to Kathmandu's Housing Boom", Lalitpur, Nepal, Nepal. (2009 – 2009).

Oral Presentation

Nelson, A. S. (Discussant), American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Response to Panel: The Effects of Recent Changes in National and International Governments and Policies on Refugee Experiences in Host Countries, Washington, D.C., United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Nelson, A. S. (Presenter), Seeking a Safe Haven: UNT Refugee Summit, Research Questions for the study of Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees, Denton, Texas, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Nelson, A. S. (Presenter), 16th Annual Asian Pacific Heritage Month Celebration, Cultural Context of Bhutan, Asian American Association of City Employees, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas, United States of America. (2014 – 2014).

Nelson, A. S. (Presenter), Hindman, H. (Presenter), South Asia Institute Educator Workshop on Bhutanese-Nepali Refugees, Language, Religion, Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Bhutan and Nepal, South Asia Institute, University of Texas-Austin, United States of America. (2013 – 2013).

Panel Presentation

Nunez-Janes, M. (Coordinator/Organizer), Re Cruz, A. (Panelist), Nelson, A. S. (Panelist), American Ethnological Society, Centering the Border at the Heart of Transformative Pedagogy, American Ethnological Society, Austin, United States of America. (2020 – 2020).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Global Nepali Health Conference, Confronting Gas Station Insecurity, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Imperial Legacies of 1919, What's "Post" about Nepal's Crypto-Colonialism: questions for the anthropology of Nepal's non-colonial condition, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Nelson, A. S. (Discussant), Society for Applied Anthropology, Doing Urban Ethnography in the Neoliberal Era, Portland, Oregon, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Nelson, A. S. (Co-Chair), South Asian Studies Conference, Capitalism in the Himalaya, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (2018 – 2018).

Nelson, A. S. (Panelist), South Asian Studies Conference, Capitalism in the Himalaya, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (2018 – 2018).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), Himalayan Studies, A Retrospective Look at One Decade of Nepali Bhutanese Refugee Resettlement, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), Himalayan Studies, Beyond the Gurkha Model: Rethinking Nepali Labor Migration, Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), Himalayan Studies Conference, The Politics of Urban Space in Kathmandu, Austin, Texas, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), American Anthropological Association meeting, When is a Refugee No Longer a Refugee?, American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), South Asian Studies Conference, City Mandala, City Decay: The Use of Historical Narratives in Post-Quake Kathmandu, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, "The Ethics and Politics of Anthropologists Working in Detention Centers", Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada. (2016 – 2016).

Nelson, A. S. (Panelist), Himalayan Studies Conference, Nepali and Tibetan Experiences in the US Immigration System, Austin, Texas, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), Himalayan Studies Conference, Nepali and Tibetan Experiences in the US Immigration System, Austin, Texas, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Nelson, A. S. (Discussant), American Anthropological Association Meeting, The Refugee Experience: Adapting to Life in the United States, Denver, Colorado, United States of America. (2015 – 2015).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, The Crux of Refugee Resettlement: Rebuilding Social Networks, Society for Applied Anthropology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America. (2015 – 2015).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), South Asian Studies Conference, Spaces of Kathmandu, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (2014 – 2014).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), Himalayan Studies Conference, Himalayan Studies in the North American Classroom, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America. (2014 – 2014).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), American Anthropological Association meeting, "Rethinking Post-Colonialism in Non-Colonial Places", Montréal, Canada, United States of America. (2011 – 2011).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), University of Virginia, "Remaking Democracy in Nepal: Insurgency, Peace Agreement, and Constituent Assembly", Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. (2007 – 2007).

Paper

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Americas Regional Nepali Health Conference, A Cross-Immigrant Alliance for Community Empowerment, United States of America. (2023).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Chautari Annual Conference, A Guthi and Chautari for Suburban North Texas? The Translation and Re-Imagining of Nepali Political Concepts in the Diaspora, Kathmandu, Nepal, Nepal. (2023).

Nelson, A. S. (Presenter), Himalayan Studies Conference, Housing Politics and the Nepali-speaking Diaspora of North Texas, United States, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canada. (2022).

Nelson, A. S. (Presenter), Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Doubling-Up in College: A Tactical Response to Student Housing Insecurity, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America. (2022).

Nelson, A. S. (Coordinator/Organizer), Global Migration toward North America via Latin America (virtual panel), Introduction, United States of America. (2020).

Nelson, A. S. (Author), Virtual Congreso Internacional Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red, The Ethnic Restaurant and the Free Trade Zone: The Flexible Mobility of Nepali Migrants in Chile, Spain. (2020).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Errance as Political Possibility: The Emergent Urban Spaces of South America’s Accidental South Asian Diasporas, American Anthropological Association, San Jose, California, United States of America. (2018 – 2018).

Nelson, A. (Author & Presenter), Borderland and Migrations Mentoring Group Featured Lecture, South Asian Labor Migrants in Latin America: Transit Migration and the Un/Making of an Accidental Diaspora, University of North Texas, United States of America. (2018 – 2018).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Recovering Home? Rethinking the Materiality of ‘Successful Resettlement’, Washington, D.C., United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization and Life on the Planet’s Periphery, New but not necessarily Neo: Rethinking the Liberalism of Kathmandu’s Peri-Urban Sprawl, York University, Global Surburbanisms Project, Toronto, Canada, Canada. (2017 – 2017).

Nelson, A. (Author & Presenter), Himalayan Studies Conference, Exceptional Urban Spaces of Transnational Labor and Mobility: La Mariscal, Quito and Zofri, Iquique, Chile, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Nelson, A. (Author & Presenter), Himalayan Studies Conference, Nepal, Bhutanese, Nepali-Bhutanese or Bhutanese-Nepali? The Politics of Naming, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Workshop on Circuits of Labour, Migration and Debt: International Labour Migrants, their Families, and the Migration Industry in Nepal, Nepalis to el Norte and el Sur: The Shadow Migrations and Labor Schemes of Nepalis in the Americas, Oxford, England, United Kingdom. (2017 – 2017).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Workshop on Frontier Urbanism: Tracking Transformations in Agrarian Urban Hinterlands of South Asia, "The Legacy of the Feudal State in Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urban Sprawl: Rethinking the ‘Failed Planning’ Narrative", York University’s Global Surburbanisms Project, New Delhi, India, India. (2017 – 2017).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), American Anthropological Association meeting, Unbecoming Refugees: Place, Home, and the Question of Belonging for Nepali-Bhutanese in North Texas Suburbs, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), South Asian Studies Conference, ‘Build Back Better’ for Whom? The Social Politics of Rebuilding a ‘Traditional’ Town after Nepal’s Great Earthquake", Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Moving to ‘Where the Bus and Train Don’t Go’: Racial and Class Ideologies of Urban Space for Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees in North Texas, Vancouver, Canada, Canada. (2016 – 2016).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Himalayan Studies Conference, The View from Above: The Privilege and Anxiety of Living In Kathmandu’s New Housing Colonies, Austin, Texas, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), American Anthropological Association Meeting, House Rituals and the Meaning of Home for Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees in North Texas, Denver, Colorado, United States of America. (2015 – 2015).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya, Between Social Evil and Necessity: Toward a Meaning of Middlemen in Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, Nepal. (2015 – 2015).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Articulating Ethnicity: Language and the Boundaries of the Himalayas, Land and Ethnicity in a Time of Urbanization: Kirtipur Maharjans and Plot #7, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America. (2015 – 2015).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, Is Bhutani Ghar to Nepali Camp as Suburban House is to Urban Apartment? The Social Networks of Relocation for Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees in North Texas, Society for Applied Anthropology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America. (2015 – 2015).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Himalayan Policy Research Conference, Nepalis to El Norte: Questions for Nepali Migration to the United States via Latin America, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (2014 – 2014).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), South Asian Studies Conference, American Apartments, Bihar Boxes, and a neo-Newari Renaissance: 21st Century Kathmandu Houses, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (2014 – 2014).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Himalayan Studies Conference, Nepali, Bhutanese, or American? Questions of Nationality and Citizenship amongst Elder Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees in Dallas, Texas, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America. (2014 – 2014).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), South Asian Studies Conference, The Birth (and Death?) of Kathmandu's Housing Industry, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (2013 – 2013).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Conference on Migration in Nepal, "Migration as Process: Practices and Conceptions of Relocation from Kathmandu's Urban Periphery", Lalitpur, Nepal, United States of America. (2012 – 2012).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), American Anthropological Association meeting, "Towards a Post-Crypto-Colonialism: Notes on the Anthropology of Nepal's Non-Colonial Condition", Montréal, Canada, United States of America. (2011 – 2011).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), South Asian Studies Conference, "The Suspect Land Pimp: Three Perspectives on the Changing Significance of Land In Kathmandu's Urbanizing Periphery", Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (2011 – 2011).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), American Anthropological Association meeting, "Building the Traditional House the Modern Way: The Production of Architectural Aesthetics in Kathmandu's Urban Periphery", New Orleans, LA, United States of America. (2010 – 2010).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), American Anthropological Association meeting, "A Private Public? Self-Governance in a Kathmandu Housing Colony", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. (2009 – 2009).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), Fulbright South Asia Conference, "No Horn Please: The Desire for Security, Order, and Community in a Kathmandu Housing Colony", Kolkata, India, India. (2009 – 2009).

Nelson, A. S. (Author & Presenter), United States Educational Foundation (USEF), "Four Ana, Two Children, and One Modern Ghar: The Social Production of Kathmandu's Urban Periphery", Kathmandu, Nepal, Nepal. (2009 – 2009).

Scholarly Meeting Contribution

Nelson, A. S. (Chair), Narahara, K. (Co-Chair), SfAA 84th Annual Meeting, Co-chair, Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Santa Fe, United States of America. (2024 – 2024).

Nelson, A. S. (Moderator), Chautari Annual Conference, Moderator for "The Living Mountain: Intersubjective Readings", Nepal. (2023).

Webinar

Nelson, M. A. (Coordinator/Organizer), Nelson, A. (Presenter), Personal Statement Writing Webinar, Personal Statement Writing Webinar, Padawan Society, Department of Anthropology, United States of America. (2022 – 2022).

Nelson, M. A. (Coordinator/Organizer), Henry, D. (Discussant), Nelson, A. (Discussant), Johnson, J. (Discussant), Brown, N. (Discussant), Nichols-Belo, A. (Discussant), Bollwerk, B. (Discussant), Fisher, G. (Discussant), Who Am I On Paper?, Who Am I On Paper?, Padawan Society, Department of Anthropology, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Media Contributions

Internet
"Nepali Bhutanese Refugees," Sapiens. (November 7, 2019).
Magazine
"What Family Means for Different Families in Dallas-Ft. Worth," DFW Child. (November 2018).
Newspaper
"Bhutanese Refugee Crisis," Seattle Times. (October 24, 2016).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
Nelson, A. S., "Scholarly and Creativity Award," Sponsored by College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of North Texas, $2360 Funded. (January 1, 2020 – August 31, 2020).
Nelson, A. S., "Global Venture Fund," Sponsored by UNT International Affairs, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (January 6, 2019 – August 31, 2020).
Nelson, A. S., "CREATE Grant," Sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (July 1, 2019 – July 31, 2019).
Nelson, A. S., "CLASS Small Grant," University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (March 2018 – July 2018).
Nelson, A. S., "Conference Support Grant," Sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (March 2017 – March 2017).
Nelson, A. S., "Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2016 – 2016).
Grant - Teaching
Nuñez-Janes, M. (Co-Principal), Nelson, A. S. (Co-Principal), Re Cruz, A. (Co-Principal), "Career Connect Experiential Learning Grant," University of North Texas, $2700 Funded. (August 2018 – August 2018).
Nelson, A. S., "Charn Fund," Sponsored by UNT International Affairs, University of North Texas, $900 Funded. (January 10, 2017 – April 8, 2017).
Uncategorized
Nelson, A. S. (Other), "Nextgen Course Redesign Grant," $3000. (2013 – 2014).
Nelson, A. S. (Other), "Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Fellowship," Sponsored by University of Virginia, $20000. (2011 – 2012).
Nelson, A. S. (Other), "Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences," Sponsored by University of Virginia, $5000. (2010 – 2010).
Nelson, A. S. (Other), "Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship," Sponsored by U.S. Department of Education, $35000. (2008 – 2009).
Nelson, A. S. (Other), "Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Center for South Asian Studies," Sponsored by University of Virginia, $5000. (2006 – 2006).
Nelson, A. S. (Other), "Grinnell Corps Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship," Sponsored by Grinnell College, $5000. (2001 – 2002).

Service

University Service

Member, CLASS Graduate Council. (2023 – Present).

Chairperson, Graduate Admissions Committee. (February 2022 – Present).

Faculty Mentor, Mentor to Dr. Courtney Cecale. (2020 – 2022).

Committee Member, Merit Committee. (2020 – 2021).

Committee Member, Curriculum Committee Member. (2019 – 2021).

Committee Member, Scholarly and Creative Award selection committee. (2020).

Committee Member, Fulbright Selection Committee. (2018 – 2020).

Committee Member, Imperial Legacies of 1919 Conference Organization Committee. (2018 – 2019).

Committee Member, Graduate Admissions Committee. (2015 – 2019).

Committee Member, Assistant Professor Search Committee. (2018 – 2018).

Committee Member, McNair Fellowship Selection Committee. (2018 – 2018).

Member, Borderlands and Migration Mentoring Group. (2017 – 2018).

Committee Member, Curriculum Revisions Committee. (2017 – 2018).

Faculty Advisor, Graduate Anthropology Students Association. (2017 – 2018).

Member, Urban Network Mentoring Group. (2017 – 2018).

Committee Chair, Larry Lee Naylor Memorial Scholarship Award Committee. (2013 – 2018).

Committee Chair, 1 Year Lecturer Search Committee. (2017 – 2017).

Committee Member, Charn Grant Selection Committee. (2017 – 2017).

Committee Member, Visiting Assistant Professor Search Committee. (2017 – 2017).

Committee Member, Lecturer Search Committee. (2015 – 2015).

Faculty Advisor, Anthropology Students Association. (2014 – 2015).

Committee Member, Curriculum Committee. (2012 – 2015).

Professional Service

Reviewer, Journal Article, Contemporary South Asia. (2023).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Human Organization. (2023).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Refugee Studies. (2023).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Anthropological Quarterly. (2022).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Refugee Studies. (2022).

Reviewer, Journal Article, South Asia History & Culture. (2022).

Reviewer, Journal Article, American Ethnologist. (2021).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Human Organization. (2021).

Reviewer, Journal Article, World Development. (2021).

Reviewer, Book, Routledge. (2018 – 2021).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Economic Anthropology. (2020).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Economy and Society. (2020).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Studies in Nepali History and Society. (2020).

Reviewer, Book, Rowman & Littlefield. (2019).

Reviewer, Journal Article, South Asia Journal. (2019).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Himalaya Journal. (2018).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Refugee Studies. (2018 – 2018).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Migration Letters. (2018 – 2018).

Reviewer, Book, Oxford University Press. (2018).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Modern Asian Studies. (2017 – 2018).

Committee Member, American Nepal Himalayan Studies Association, Best Graduate Paper Committee. (2014 – 2018).

Reviewer, Book, Palgrave Macmillan. (2017 – 2017).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Himalaya Journal. (2016 – 2016).

Reviewer, Book, Routledge Publications. (2016 – 2016).

Public Service

Mentor, Frisco Independent School District. (2020 – 2022).

Other, Nepali Bhutanese Community Group. (2015 – 2017).

Consulting

Government, Texas Department of State Health Services and Texas A&M Public Policy Research Institute, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Government, Texas Department of State Health Services and Texas A&M Public Policy Research Institute, United States of America. (2014 – 2014).