Nimo M. Abdi
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
Publications
24
Citations
319
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
21
Publishing since 2005
Nimo M. Abdi's research focuses on the education and lived experiences of Somali and East African immigrant and refugee families in the United States, with particular attention to mothers' engagement with schools, race and identity in the diaspora, and colonial legacies in education. The work uses qualitative approaches to examine how immigrant communities navigate schooling, parenting, and belonging. Note that a couple of listed publications on mitochondrial biology and RNA/cancer appear to be from a different, unrelated researcher sharing the same name, mixed into this bibliographic record.
Publication output has been relatively steady but modest over the past decade, generally producing one to a few outputs per year without a strong upward or downward trend.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Borders of Motherhood, Keeping Us In, Keeping Us Out
2025
- Abstract 2445 Regulation of the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier by the Wnt/β-catenin pathway rewires mitochondrial metabolism in liver cancer cells
Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2025
- Disrupting hegemonic conceptions of parental engagement: Somali mothers’ (communal) pedagogies of quiet resistance
Diaspora Indigenous and Minority Education · 2024
- Abstract 2440 Regulation of the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier by the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway
Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2024
- Rescue from Coloniality? The Power of Dreaming
Journal of Family Diversity in Education · 2023
- Somali Mothers and Daughters Navigating Western Notions of Motherhood and Schooling in the Diaspora
2023
- Between Suffering and Liberation: Complexities of Blackness Among East African Immigrants in Minnesota in the George Floyd Moment
Educational Studies · 2022
- “You Have to Know Their World”:
2022
- Somali Immigrant Mothers’ Experiences of School Engagement: Implications for School Leaders
Educational Administration Quarterly · 2021
- Humanizing practices in online learning communities during pandemics in the USA
Journal of Professional Capital and Community · 2020
- Gender, Education, and Immigrant Children in the United States
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education · 2020
- Immigrant hierarchies and white supremacy: race and representation among east African immigrant Muslims
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education · 2019
- 7. Researching from the Margin: Challenges and Tensions of Doing Research within One’s Own Refugee Community
Multilingual Matters eBooks · 2019
- Literacy as Social (Media) Practice: Refugee Youth and Native Language Literacy at School
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2019
- Researching from the Margin:
Channel View Publications eBooks · 2019
- Journal of Biological Chemistry×2
- International Journal of Intercultural Relations×1
- International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education×1
- Educational Studies×1
- Educational Administration Quarterly×1
- David C. Stanley
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Cory Brown
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Corinne Mitsuye Sugino
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Christy Wessel‐Powell
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Dinorah Sánchez Loza
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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