This chapter aims to push the existing limits of our understanding of movement, mobility and nomadism in the academic vocation, particularly in the context of its professionalisation and globalisation. In process, we discover new types of borderlands and fringe spaces and try to decode the ways in which they speak back to the mainstream. Being a nomad typically implies a keener awareness of ‘convention’ in the academy, often on account of being an outlier. Academic nomads have chiefly been studied with reference to cross-border mobility. However, this chapter embraces a thick conception of academic nomadism including holding multiple academic interests and defying disciplinary silos; occupying different positions across the length of an academic career overlaid on other positionalities; orbiting the academic world while actively engaging with other sectors. This chapter will examine how these factors correlate and interact with cross-border mobility to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of nomadism as agency.