Shadi Mokhtari

Assistant Professor
School of International Service

• Shadi Mokhtari specializes in human rights, Middle East Politics and Political Islam. She has an extensive background in human rights and women’s rights issues in the Middle East and Muslim World. She is the Editor in Chief of the Muslim World Journal of Human Rights and the author of After Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East (Cambridge, 2009), which was selected as the co-winner of the 2010 American Political Science Association Human Rights Section Best Book Award. She is currently involved in two research undertakings: A USIP report on the de-legitimizing effects of the Iranian government's resort to heightened repression following the 2009 elections and a larger project mapping how human rights dynamics and discourses have changed in the Middle East since the recent wave of popular protest and demands for change has swept the region.

• Degrees

  PhD & LLM, York University; JD, University of Texas; MIA, Columbia University; BA, American Univesity

• Favorite Spot on Campus:

  Quad