2023 Workshop

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Global Chair in Law, Queen Mary University of London

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Palestinian feminist, is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Global Chair in Law-Queen Mary University of London. Her scholarship focuses on knowledge production in relation to accumulative trauma, state criminality, surveillance, gender violence, and law and society. Author of Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study (Cambridge University Press, 2010; Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear (Cambridge University Press 2015); Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding (Cambridge University Press 2019); co-edited volumes Engaged students in conflict zones, community-engaged courses in Israel as a vehicle for change (Palgrave Macmillan Press 2019); When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism (Cambridge University Press 2021), and is currently finalizing The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke University Press 2023).