Nath holds a PhD in American Studies & Ethnicity (with a certificate in visual studies) from the University of Southern California. Her work explores the visual culture of military detention in the ‘War on Terror’; she examines a variety of artifacts (art objects, documentary film, redacted government documents), focusing on what these differing pieces illuminate about the visual politics of detention and disappearance. Her writing has appeared in Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, American Quarterly, Studies in Documentary Film and Amerasia Journal.