Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is an Israeli-Palestinian feminist scholar whose work focuses on trauma, state crimes and criminology, surveillance, gender violence, law and society and genocide studies. She is a professor who teaches in the departments of criminology and social work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Global Chair in Law - Queen Mary University of London.

Career

Shalhoub-Kevorkioan grew up in Haifa. She is a dual Israeli and American citizen. She received a Master of Arts degree in 1989 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1994, both from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Shalhoub-Kevorkioan is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London.

War on Gaza

On March 12, 2024, Shalhoub-Kevorkian was suspended from the Faculty of Law following her remarks on Israel's Channel 14 news, where she accused Israel of genocide in Gaza and cast doubt on reports of sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on October 7. The American Anthropological Association described an earlier letter, sent by the university in December 2023, as a threat to academic freedom and asked the university to retract. Philosopher and gender studies scholar Judith Butler wrote to the university leadership in support of Shalhoub-Kevorkian. Butler argued that it was the university's right to disagree with Shalhoub-Kevorkian on her view that the 2023 Israeli attack on Gaza constitutes genocide, but that the university leaders had an "obligation as representatives of a major research university to engage the debate, and to make room for an informed discussion of the matter free of threats". In a letter to Hebrew University, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel argued that Shalhoub-Kevorkian's comments: "while contentious, are protected under the right to freedom of expression, rendering her suspension an intolerable infringement upon academic freedom and constitutional rights."

Prizes and Honors

*2020 Impact Award, International Network for Genocide Scholars (INoGS)
*2017 Radzinowicz Prize for the Best Article Published in 2016, The British Journal of Criminology
*2016 Claire Goldberg Moses Prize for the Most Theoretically Innovative Article Published in ''Feminist Studies''
*2015 Honoree of the Harvard Law School’s Second Annual International Women’s Day Celebrations, organized by the Harvard Women’s Law Association and Harvard Law and International Development Society
*2014 Radzinowicz Prize for the Best Article Published in 2014, The British Journal of Criminology
*2011 International Scholarship Prize for Distinguished Work in the Field of Law and Society, Law and Society Association
*2008 International Women’s Rights Prize, The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
*2008 Golda Meir Fellowship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
*2000 Dean’s Letter of Commendation for Teaching Excellence, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
*1999 Ellis and Alma Birk Scholars Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
*1998 Arab-Israeli Award for Pioneering Scholars, The Arab Students Committee for Higher Education
*1994 Dean’s Letter of Commendation for Teaching Excellence, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Selected works

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References

Living people
1960s births
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Academics of Queen Mary University of London
American women academics
Israeli women academics

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