Nash’s work focuses on black feminism, black sexual politics, race and visual culture, and race and law. To date, her research has centered on two related areas: first, she has studied representations of black bodies in visual culture, with a particular interest in sexualized images of black female bodies. Second, she has written about black feminism as an intellectual and political tradition, focusing on intersectionality and, more recently, on black feminism’s love-politics. She held fellowships at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows. Her research has also been supported by the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in Women’s Studies.