Authors

Nicola Perugini

 

Nicola Perugini is Assistant Professor at and Director of the Human Rights Program at the Al Quds Bard College (Jerusalem, Palestine), and incoming Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cogut Center for the Humanities (Middle East Studies, Italian Studies, Brown University, US).

His current research focuses on the relationship between human rights and domination in Palestine/Israel. He is writing a book on this topic with Neve Gordon (The Human Right to Dominate, forthcoming by Oxford University Press).

He has published articles on embedded anthropology, asylum seekers, humanitarianism, politics of the gaze, law and spatial practices, and settler colonialism in a number of Italian and International edited volumes and journals, including Antropologia Medica and History of the Present.  

Perugini collaborates with DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency, Beit Sahour, Palestine) and has collaborated with the research project “Forensic Architecture” (Goldsmiths, University of London, project funded by the European Research Council). From 2010 to 2012 he has worked as a consultant for Unesco in Palestine and he is the co-recipient of the 2011 Melina Mercouri International Prize the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes. 

ARTICLES BY Nicola Perugini