Andrew S. Nelson

Previous Scheduled Teaching

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

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. (2020 - 2020).
• Nelson , A.S., "Global Venture Fund," sponsored by UNT International Affairs, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2019 - 2020).
• Nelson, A.S., "CREATE Grant," sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
• Nelson, A.S., "CLASS Small Grant," University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2018 - 2018).
• Nelson, A.S., "Conference Support Grant," sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2017 - 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. (2018 - 2018).
• Nelson, A.S., "Charn Fund," sponsored by UNT International Affairs, University of North Texas, $900 Funded. (2017 - 2017).