Academic Publications related to Research Area focus on Toileting Practices, Discard, and Climate Change
Nahar, Sarah, Johannes Helgren, Suyash Kulkarni, and Saket Sharma. “Preparing for the Electrification of Heavy Duty Vehicles.” Alliance for the Climate Transition blog. May 24, 2023.
Nahar, Sarah. “Religion, Body, Excreta.” Yudit Kornberg Greenberg and George Pati, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body. Abingdon, and New York: Routledge, 2023, pp. 421- 434.
Nahar, Sarah, and Sharon Moran. “Local Communities in Water and Sanitation: Practices and Challenges.” Clean Water and Sanitation, edited by Walter Leal Filho et al., Encyclopedia of the Sustainable Development Goals. Springer International Publishing, 2020, pp. 390-401.
Nahar, Sarah. “Research Note: Are We Flushing Peace Down the Toilet?: Discipleship and Defecatory Justice.” The Mennonite Quarterly Review, vol. 94, no. 1, 2020, pp. 103–15.
Forthcoming Academic Publications
Canova, Justin, Todd Moss, and Sarah Nahar. “Looking out for Number One through Number Two: Overcoming Stigma in Sanitation-Focused Sustainable Entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Forthcoming June 2025.
Moran, Sharon, Jean Kayira, and Sarah Nahar. “Environmental studies curriculum innovations: New approaches to courses centering diversity and environmental knowledge.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. Forthcoming September 2025.
Nahar, Sarah. “Religious Moral Suasion and Material Support for the Environmental Justice Movement.” International Journal of Responsibility (Peer-reviewed journal). Forthcoming March 2025.
Nahar, Sarah. “Using the Doctrine of Discovery to increase shared language and conceptual frameworks for Black feminist and Indigenous feminist organizing. The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Syracuse, NY: Indigenous Values Initiative. Forthcoming Nov. 2025.
Chapter Contributions
Thompson Nahar, Sarah. “The Creolization of Women of Color for Leadership.” Becoming Like Creoles: Living and Leading at the Intersections of Injustice, Culture, and Religion, by Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Fortress Press, 2019, pp. 75–91.
Thompson, Sarah. “An Ecological Beloved Community: An interview with Na’Taki Osborne Jelks,” Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice, edited by Ched Myers and Denise Nadeau, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016, pp. 102–120.
Graduate Academic Papers
2022 Nahar, S. Academic Review of Service: The Path to Justice.
2021 Perceptions of Shit, for Environmental Perception and Human Behavior, EST 650
2021 Resource Recapture, for Transnational Food, Health, and the Environment, FST 703
2021 Ecological Sanitation as Sustainable Enterprise, for Independent Study in Kenya, BUA 690
2021 Ecowomanism as Expression of Public Political Ecology, for Political Ecology, GEO 755
2020 Ethnography on Ecological Sanitation Practitioners, for Writing Religions and Cultures, REL 699
2020 Connecting the Right to Food and Nutrition with the Right to Water and Sanitation, for Food, Gender and Rights, FST 706
2020 Toilet: A Mythic Experience, for Return of Myth and Cosmology, REL 601
2019 Countering Neoliberal White Supremacist Patriarchy: Learning from Black Women Domestic Workers through the Lens of Defecatory Justice,for Black Women Domestic Workers, SOC 627
2019 The Grammar of Animacy: Reclamations, for Black Critical Theory, REL 600
Selected Bibliography of General Writing by Sarah Nahar (neé Thompson)
Article on Black Women's Blueprint and the People's Tribunal in Ms. 2016
“A Letter from your SSGA President”. The Spelman Spotlight. 2005. Volume XLIV No. 1, page 1.
African Independent Churches Mission Focus.
“An Interfaith Call to Peace.” Mennonite Weekly Review. May 4, 2009.
“Ask Not Only What Spelman Can Do For You...”The Jaguar Print. 2005. Volume 2, No. 4,
page 1, part 1.
“…Ask What Only You Can Do For Spelman” The Jaguar Print. 2006. Volume 2, No. 5, page 1, part 2.
“Blessing Those Who Mourn.” Mennonite Weekly Review. September 7, 2009.
“Budgets = Values + Priorities.” Thirdway Café Wider View. December 1, 2006.
http://www.thirdway.com/wv/article.asp?ID=566
“Building Decision Questioned.” Mennonite Weekly Review. May 24, 2010. (With Hilary Scarsella).
“Charlottesville Renews Call to Resist White Supremacy in Community, Church.” The Mennonite. August 15, 2017. https://themennonite.org/daily-news/charlottesville-events-renew-call-resist-white-supremacy-community-church/.
“Christian Peacemaker Teams: Uniting Word and Deed through ‘Being-With.” Pages 23-26 in Anabaptist Witness Journal, Vol. 3, No 1, What is Mission?: Evangelism, Justice, and Beyond. Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, April 2016.
“Conflict as a generative force,” The Mennonite. March 2015.
“Cumbre Mundial de la Juventud.” Boletín de Noticias de Agrupación Menonita de Latinoamérica de Comunicaciones, 15 Jun 2008.
“Do your own work.” The Mennonite, July 2017.
“Don’t Flush Peace Down the Toilet!” pages 97-102 in Tikkun Magazine: Politics, Spirituality and Culture. Vol 34, No. 2/3, Spring/Summer 2019.
“Embodying Peace, Transforming Violence: An Interview with Sarah Thompson.” The Other Journal: An Intersection of Theology and Culture. August 22, 2013. http://theotherjournal.com/2013/08/22/embodying-peace-transforming-violence-an-interview-with-sarah-thompson/.
“Global Youth Summit Delegates Survey about Service.” Mennonite Weekly Review.
“Humility, Honesty and Humor.” Mennonite Weekly Review. July 6, 2009.
“If you See Something, Say Something.” March 1, 2016. The Mennonite. https://themennonite.org/opinion/if-you-see-something-say-something/.
“In the Name of Jesus, in Service to All Beings.” Menno Snapshots of Mennonite Church USA. March 10, 2020. https://www.mennoniteusa.org/menno-snapshots/in-jesus-in-service-to-all-beings/.
“Liberation, Lineage, and Village: Why I Am an Anabaptist.” The Mennonite. July 27, 2020. https://themennonite.org/feature/liberation-lineage-village-anabaptist/.
“Making Herstory.” The Mennonite. August 15, 2006. Volume 9 number 16, pg. 20.
“March Madness: Six Years of War in Iraq.” Mennonite Weekly Review. April 6, 2009. Vol. 14, page 5.
“Mennonite to the Point of Vomiting?: Mennonite Reflections on Eating Disorders”. The Mennonite. May 4, 2004. Volume 7 number 9, pg. 21.
“Mennonite Voluntary Service: A Jubilee Vision in Elkhart, Indiana.” in Widening the Circle: Anabaptist Experiments in Discipleship. Joanna Shenk, editor, Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, November 2011.
“My Cousins Were Killed on Monday.” Thirdway Café Wider View. October 6, 2006. http://www.thirdway.com/wv/article.asp?ID=555
“My Left Foot: Holistic Medicine Matters.” Timbrel, Summer 2014, pp. 8–9.
“Our Church’s Birthday Party.” Mennonite Weekly Review. January 7, 2008. Volume 1, page 6.
“Pedaling Through Palestine.” Mennonite Central Committee Great Lakes Newsletter. Winter 2012, Vol. 24, No.1
“Planting the Kingdom’s Seeds.” Mennonite Weekly Review. July 7, 2008.
“Restructuring in Real Time: Mennonite Central Committee New Wine/New Wineskins.” Mennonite Weekly Review. September 2008.
“Rosa Parks and the Spelman Women of the Civil Rights Movement”. The Jaguar Print. December 1, 2005. Volume 2, No. 5, page 4.
“Service: Live the Difference! Mennonite Weekly Review. June 15, 2009.
“Service with Few Resources.” Mennonite Weekly Review. March 31, 2008. Volume 4, page 5.
“The Creolization of Women of Color for Leadership.” Becoming Like Creoles: Living and Leading at the Intersections of Injustice, Culture, and Religion, edited by Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Fortress Press, 2019, pp. 75–91.
“When Christian Peacemaking Requires the Ultimate Sacrifice" (Sojourners, July 2017, sojo.net).
“Women on the M.O.V.E.: Student Government Association Week 2005” The Spelman Spotlight. 2005. Volume XLIV, No. 3, page 1.
“Women and Prophecy in Ghana.” Timbrel: Women in Conversation with God. Jan/Feb 2010, page 4-6.
“Young Peacemakers Raise the Standard.” Youth Concerns. Council on Reconciliation, Mennonite Central Committee: Akron, PA, September 2004.
“Youth Speak to the World.” Mennonite Weekly Review. August 10, 2009.
Joint Non-Academic Publications
Bergen, Jay, Anton Flores-Maisonet and Sarah Nahar. "Atlanta Needs A Forest, Not 'Cop City'. Anabaptist World. March 29, 2023. https://anabaptistworld.org/atlanta-needs-a-forest-not-cop-city/
Nahar, Jonathan and Sarah Nahar. “War in the Anthropocene: A Story from the Mekong.” Geez Magazine. Issue 54, Fall 2019, page 27-28.
Interviews
Bernardi, Dan. "Uniting the Community in the Pursuit of Environmental Justice". Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences News Media. March 28, 2023. https://thecollege.syr.edu/news-all/news-2023/uniting-the-community-in-the-pursuit-of-environmental-justice/
Davila, Rose. “Peace Out with Rosie Davila: Special Guest Sarah Nahar.”
Greenwald, Alexandra. “Being Sarah Thompson.” Timbrel, Winter 2017, pp. 13–17.
“Do Unto Those Downstream: Talking Ecological Justice and Caring For Our Global Neighbors with Sarah Nahar.” Interview with Every Nation magazine. October 30, 2019. https://nationsmedia.org/do-unto-those-downstream/.
Video & Podcast Appearances
“Tech and Public Safety: Activism and Community” Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech, June 19, 2024
“Dealing with our Crap: Who Does, Who Doesn’t, and Why?” Community Presentation, February 26, 2024.
“Youth and Climate Summit” Mennonite Church USA, June 28, 2023.
“Defecatory Justice” on the Hey Poopy podcast, April 20, 2022. Episode 164.
“Shit Happens” on the Called to be Bad Podcast. August 1, 2022. Episode 24.
“Retreat in Gospel Nonviolence” documentary interviewee, 2022.
“Stir Up Peace” Mennonite Mission Network video series, 2021.
“Activists of Color Doing Indigenous Solidarity Work” Bartimaeus-Kinsler Institute, January 17, 2021.
“POC Perspectives on the Doctrine of Discovery” Mother Earth’s Pandemic Conference, 2020.