Overview
- Princeton’s spring course, titled Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide, is a for-credit seminar cross-listed in anthropology and gender and sexuality studies and counts toward related degree requirements.
- The description situates Gaza within comparative histories that include the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and genocide against Black and Indigenous populations, drawing on reproductive justice frameworks and survivor testimony.
- The class is taught by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who was suspended by Hebrew University in March 2024, briefly detained on alleged incitement, and later left the institution before joining Princeton as a Global South Visiting Scholar and then a named visiting professor.
- Right-leaning outlets and commentators criticize the appointment and course, citing Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s past calls to abolish Zionism and her reported comments questioning accounts of Oct. 7 atrocities before later clarifying that she believes victims’ claims.
- A Princeton spokeswoman declined further comment beyond linking to the university’s academic freedom and free expression page, and reporting notes assigned readings such as Hala Shoman’s essay on reproductive-targeted violence in Gaza.