معرفی
Shourideh C. Molavi is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University in New York City and serves as Postdoctoral Research Fellow and lead Palestine researcher at Forensic Architecture. Her work bridges academic scholarship, legal analysis, and human rights advocacy, with a focus on Palestine/Israel and the interplay between law, violence, and power.
Her research centers on political science and human rights, particularly the legal and structural dimensions of minority rights, statelessness, and colonial exclusion. She examines how international humanitarian law intersects with state violence, especially in settler-colonial contexts. Her expertise includes the political status of Arab citizens in Israel, environmental destruction as a weapon of war, and the constitutional logic of the Jewish state.
The thematic trends in her publications reveal a sustained engagement with legal-political violence, citizenship under occupation, and environmental warfare. Her work combines rigorous scholarly analysis with field-based forensic investigation, often in collaboration with grassroots human rights organizations and civil society networks in Palestine.
Shourideh has made significant scholarly contributions through her authored books, which address core issues in human rights and political theory. Though no formal awards are listed, her publications with major academic presses underscore her influence in the field.
She mentors and contributes to human rights research through her teaching and fieldwork, integrating academic inquiry with real-world advocacy. Her role at Forensic Architecture involves leading complex investigations into state violence, linking legal frameworks with spatial and digital evidence.
She is actively involved in research teams at Forensic Architecture, where she leads investigations on Palestine, contributing to a growing body of work that uses interdisciplinary methods to document and challenge human rights violations.
