We are delighted to welcome Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, an Armenian Palestinian feminist scholar and ethnographer, as Anthropology’s Global South Visiting Scholar for 2024-25. Dr.  Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s works at the intersection of human rights, ethnography of children, necropolitics, embodiment, and settler-colonialism. Among her recent publications is the volume The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism (co-edited with Lila Abu-Lughod and Rema Hammami)..

Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian currently holds an appointment at the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London and she was a Professor at the Institute of Criminology of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. While at Princeton, Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian will teach two 6-weeks graduate seminars and engage with faculty and students across campus.  Her appointment is supported by the University Center for Human Values (UCHV) and the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs (SPIA). 

This term, after fall break, Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian is teaching the seminar Monstrosity and Colonialism, bringing together writings on slavery, colonialism, and genocide to explore the epistemological, necropenological, and politico-economic conditions mobilized to render a condition of 'non-humanity' of those 'otherized' by colonizers. 

Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian will be giving a talk this Thursday, October 24, entitled The Necropolitics of Ihala in Jerusalem in 219 Aaron Burr Hall, starting at 4:30 pm.

We look forward to engaging Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian and her timely and important work!