Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Palestinian feminist, is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Law, Institute of Criminology, and Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare. She is also the Global Chair in Law at 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.

She is the 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), and the 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 The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke University Press 2023).

As an RPL Visiting Scholar in Conflict and Peace, Shalhoub-Kavorkian will be researching Christian Zionism with a global focus toward the end of co-designing and conducting, with Professor Atalia Omer, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding, a discussion group/think tank with leading scholars on questions of Christian Zionism globally. She will be contributing to RPL community and public programming and will serve as an ongoing intellectual partner to the Religion, Conflict & Peace Initiative, particularly in relation to global aspects of Christian Zionism.