S.N. Nyeck is one of the founders of queer studies in Africa. She helped create and led the first pan-African Network of scholars doing queer research in Africa (2007-2011). She has over twenty years of experience on queer issues in Africa and frequently intervenes in activist-led and scholarly fora. She writes about queer issues in Africa using as diverse tools as literature, political theory, theology, and African philosophy.
S.N. Nyeck holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California Los Angeles with a specialization in international relations and comparative politics. In additional to research on identity politics, Dr. Nyeck is writes about public procurement and governance reform in Africa from historical and contemporary perspectives. She co-edited with Orly Benjamin, the first international special journal issue on gender, women and government outsourcing in comparative perspectives. Among her publications are: Sexual Diversity in Africa: Politics, Theory and Citizenship co-edited with Marc Epprecht (McGill-Queens’ University Press, 2013); Public Procurement and Governance Reform in Africa (Palgrave, 2016); Routledge Handbook of Queer Africa Studies (2019), and the upcoming African Queer Dialectics and Politics: Simulation and Simulacra (Palgrave 2020).
Dr. Nyeck is the book review editor for the Journal of Africana Religion; an Africa Multiple Cluster Excellence Fellow, Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Germany; a Research Associate with Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET), Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, and a Visiting Scholar at the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, Emory School of Law, United States.