Meghana Nayak is Professor of Political Science and Affiliate Faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies at Pace University. Her research focuses on the politics of gender violence and the racialized and gendered categorization of migrants. She is co-author with Eric Selbin of Decentering International Relations (Zed Books), author of Who is Worthy of Protection? Gender-Based Asylum and U.S. Immigration Politics (Oxford University Press), and author of articles in International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Studies Review, and Politics and Gender.