Dr. Noha Shawki
Professor
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 403B
Office Hours
Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30-1:30pm and by appointment
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
POL 352.001 Human Rights
POL 458.001 Human Rights
POL 499.001 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
POL 287.001 Independent Study
POL 400.001 Independent Study
POL 291.001 Undergraduate Teaching Experience In Political Science
POL 293.001 Workshop Model United Nations
Teaching Interests & Areas
international relations; human rights; international organizations; global issues, sustainable development
Research Interests & Areas
transnational social movements and activism; human rights; international norms; global governance, sustainable development
Ph D Political Science
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
MA
University of Trier
Trier, Germany
Hibbert R. Roberts Excellence in Teaching Award
Department of Politics and Government
2024
Environmental Stewardship Award
Office of Sustainability
2023
Kenneth A and Mary Ann Shaw Teaching Fellowship
College of Arts and Sciences
2021
Sudent Sustainability Fund Grant
Student Sustainability Committee
2021
RISE
Office of the Provost
2021
Impact Award
University College
2020
Hibbert R. Roberts Excellence in Teaching Award
Department of Politics and Government
2019
Pi Sigma Alpha Teaching Excellence Award
Pi Sigma Alpha
2019
Student Sustainability Fund Grant
Student Sustainability Committee
2019
Summer Faculty Fellowship
Illinois State University - College of Arts and Sciences
2019
International Travel Grant
College of Arts and Sciences
2018
Student Sustainability Fund Grant
Student Sustainability Committee
2018
College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding College Teacher
College of Arts and Sciences
2018
College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Initiative Grant
College of Arts and Sciences
2017
Faculty/Staff Internationalization Award
Office of International Studies and Programs
2017
Hibbert R. Roberts Excellence in Teaching Award
Department of Politics and Government
2017
Pi Sigma Alpha Teaching Excellence Award
Pi Sigma Alpha
2017
Sudent Sustainability Fund Grant
Student Sustianability Committee
2016
Pi Sigma Alpha Teaching Excellence Award
Pi Sigma Alpha
2016
Kenneth A and Mary Ann Shaw Teaching Fellowship
College of Arts and Sciences
2015
Pi Sigma Alpha Teaching Excellence Award
Pi Sigma Alpha
2015
Student Sustainability Fund Grant
Illinois State University, Student Sustainability Committee
2015
Community Engagement Learning Grant
Illinois State University, Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology and the Civic Engagement and Responsibility Minor
2014
Student Sustainability Fund Grant
Illinois State University, Student Sustainability Committee
2014
Teaching and Learning Development Grant
Illinois State University, Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology and the Civic Engagement and Responsibility Minor
2014
Grants and Contracts
Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship Grant Track II
Joan Brehm, Melissa Heil, Eric Peterson, Noha Shawki, Guang Jin.
Illinois State University. July 2025 - June 2026
Revitalizing Urban Waterways: Floating Gardens as a Path to Social Sustainability on the Chicago River
Mike Hendricks, Alec Foster, Noha Shawki, Eric Peterson, Joan Brehm.
Illinois State University's Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship. August 15 2025 - September 30 2026
CAS Interdisciplinary Research Grant
Gina Hunter, Noha Shawki, Kathryn Sampeck.
College of Arts and Sciences. August 2017 - July 2018
Book Review
Mobilizing for Human Rights. International Law in Domestic Politics. By Beth A. Simmons
Noha Shawki.
(2010), 72, 1259 - 1261, Journal of Politics
Book, Authored
Advocating for Refugees in the European Union: Norm-Based Strategies by Civil Society Organizations
Melissa Schnyder, Noha Shawki.
(2020), Lexington Books
Book, Chapter
Norm Evolution and Change: Analyzing the Negotiation of
the Sustainable Development Goals
Noha Shawki.
(2016)
A New Actor in Human Rights Politics? Transgovernmental Networks of National Human Rights Institutions
Noha Shawki.
(2009), 41-57, Rethinking Sovereignty and Human Rights after the Cold War, Ashgate Publishing
The Illicit Small Arms Trade: Global Threat and Response
Noha Shawki, Julian Westerhout.
(2008), 51-69, State of Corruption, State of Chaos: The Terror of Political Malfeasance, Lexington Books
Book, Edited
International Norms, Normative Change, and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Noha Shawki.
(2016), Lexington Books
Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights. Actors and Issues in Contemporary Human Rights Politics
Noha Shawki, Michaelene Cox.
(2009), Ashgate Publishing
Journal Article
Third Sector Advocacy for Sustainability Transitions in the European Union
Noha Shawki, Melissa Schnyder.
Journal of Civil Society, 21 (2), 180-204, (2025)
Understanding Sense of Place Among Rooted Cosmopolitans: The Case of the Slow food Movement
Noha Shawki, Melissa Schnyder.
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, (2025)
Social Movement Communities: Examining the Activities of Leaders of Local Slow Food Chapters in the United States
Noha Shawki, Melissa Schnyder.
Security and Intelligence, 9 (2), 57-88, (2024), https://doi.org/10.18278/si.9.2.4.
Coalition Dynamics in Transnational Social Movements: Analyzing the EU Food Policy Coalition
Noha Shawki, Melissa Schnyder.
Global Society, 37 (1), 134-156, (2023)
Understanding Polycentrically Organized Movements: An Analysis of the Slow Food and Fair Trade Movements in Europe
Noha Shawki, Melissa Schnyder.
Journal of Civil Society, 19 (2), 156–174, (2023)
Building Solidarity in the Slow Food Movement
Noha Shawki, Gina Hunter.
International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 28 (2), 75-93, (2022)
The Global Adolescent Girl Agenda: An Analysis of the Emergence and the Political Outcomes of Two Global Health Networks
Noha Shawki.
Journal of Social and Development Sciences, 10 (1), 33-51, (2019)
Global Basic Rights, Positive Duties, Extraterritorial Obligations, and Mediating Institutions: Do the Sustainable Development Goals Deepen the Institutionalization of a Global Responsibility to End Poverty?
Noha Shawki.
Social Alternatives, 37 (1), 3-11, (2018)
Implementing the Women, Peace, & Security Agenda
Noha Shawki.
Global Affairs, 3 (4-5), 455-467, (2018)
Norms and Normative Change in World Politics: An Analysis of Land Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals
Noha Shawki.
Global Change, Peace & Security, 28 (3), 249-269, (2016)
‘The Work that Makes all Other Work Possible’: Domestic Work and Contemporary Domestic Worker Organizing for Justice and Dignity in the United States
Noha Shawki.
Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, 25 (2), 143-166, (2016)
Norm-based Advocacy and Social Change: An Analysis of Advocacy Efforts to End Child Marriage
Noha Shawki.
Social Alternatives, 34 (4), 57-62, (2015)
The Local Fair Trade Movement: Understanding Global Discourses and Local Activism
Noha Shawki.
New Political Science, 37 (3), 401-423, (2015)
Transnationalism and Diffusion: A Study of the Food Sovereignty Movements in the UK and Canada
Noha Shawki.
Globalizations, 12 (5), 758-773, (2015)
New Rights Advocacy and the Human Rights of Peasants: La Via Campesina and the Evolution of New Human Rights Norms
Noha Shawki.
Journal of Human Rights Practice, 6 (2), 306–326, (2014)
Understanding the Transnational Diffusion of Social Movements: An Analysis of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network and Transition US
Noha Shawki.
Humanity and Society, 37 (2), 131-158, (2013)
The 2008 Food Crisis as a Critical Event for the Food Sovereignty and Food Justice Movements
Noha Shawki.
International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 19 (3), 423–444, (2012)
“Civil Society Advocacy and the Diffusion of Violence Against Women Norms: An Analysis of the International Violence Against Women Act
Noha Shawki.
Global Social Policy, 11 (2-3), 175 - 193, (2011)
Global Norms, Local Implementation: How Global Norms Are Translated Into Local Practice
Noha Shawki.
Globality Studies Journal, (2011)
Organizational Structure and Strength and Transnational Campaign Outcomes: A Comparison of Two Transnational Advocacy Networks
Noha Shawki.
Global Networks, 11 (1), 97-117, (2011)
Responsibility to Protect: The Evolution of an International Norm
Noha Shawki.
Global Responsibility to Protect (GR2P), 3 (2), 172–196, (2011)
Issue Frames and the Political Outcomes of Transnational Campaigns: A Comparison of the Jubilee 2000 Movement and the Currency Transaction Tax Campaign
Noha Shawki.
Global Society, 24 (2), 203-230, (2010)
Political Opportunity Structures and the Outcomes of Transnational Campaigns: A Comparison of Two Transnational Advocacy Networks
Noha Shawki.
Peace and Change, 35 (3), 381-411, (2010)
Conceptualizing Transnational Campaign Outcomes
Noha Shawki.
Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, 41 (1), 81-110, (2009)
Civil Society, Middle Powers, and R2P: An Analysis of Canada’s Response to the Crisis in Darfur
Noha Shawki.
Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, 40 (1), 24-54, (2008)
"Building Solidarity in the Slow Food Movement"
Noha Shawki, Gina Hunter.
The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 28 (2), https://doi.org/10.48416/ijsaf.v28i2.489
Other
Considering the Potential of the Sustainable Development Goals
Noha Shawki.
(2018)
Perspectives and Case Studies on the Implementation of the Women, Peace & Security Agenda
Noha Shawki.
Global Affairs
Presentations
Social Movement Communities: Examining the Activities of Leaders of Local Slow Food Chapters in the United States
Noha Shawki.
Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Online, April, 2022
Building Solidarity in the Slow Food Movement
Noha Shawki, Gina Hunter.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology Brown Bag, Normal, IL, February 25, 2022
Building Solidarity in the Slow Food Movement
Noha Shawki, Gina Hunter.
Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, Online, June 15, 2021
Coalition Dynamics in Transnational Social Movements: Analyzing the EU Food Policy Coalition
Noha Shawki, Melissa Schnyder.
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Online, April, 2021
International Norms, Normative Change, and the Sustainable Development Goals
Noha Shawki.
Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 9, 2016
Formulating the Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of Norm Contestation and Norm Change
Noha Shawki.
Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 18, 2015
The Transnational Diffusion of Social Movements: A Case Study of the Food Sovereignty Movement in the UK and Canada
Noha Shawki.
Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 6, 2014
La Via Campesina and the Human Rights of Peasants: An Analysis of the Evolution of New Human Rights Norms
Noha Shawki.
Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April, 2013
Understanding the Transnational Diffusion of Social Movements: An Analysis of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network and Transition US
Noha Shawki.
Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April, 2012
The 2008 Food Crisis as a Critical Event for the Food Sovereignty and Food Justice Movements
Noha Shawki.
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, September, 2011
Global Norms, Local Implementation: How Global Norms Are Translated Into Local Practice
Noha Shawki.
International Studies Association Convention, Montreal, Canada, March, 2011
Civil Society Activism and Women’s Human Rights: An Analysis of the International Violence Against Women Act
Noha Shawki.
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, September, 2009
Civil Society, Middle Powers, and R2P: An Analysis of Canada’s Response to the Crisis in Darfur
Noha Shawki.
International Studies Association Convention, New York, New York, February, 2009
Responsibility to Protect: The Evolution of an International Norm
Noha Shawki.
International Studies Association Convention, New York, New York, February, 2009
The Effect of Civil Society Campaigns on Canada's foreign Policy: The Case of Darfur
Noha Shawki.
Peace and Justice Studies Association Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, September, 2008
Conceptualizing the International Political Opportunity Structure
Noha Shawki.
International Studies Association Convention, Chicago, IL, March, 2007
Understanding the Role of Transnational Advocacy Networks in Global Governance
Noha Shawki.
International Studies Association Convention, San Diego, CA, March, 2006
Promoting Democracy and Human Rights: The Role of Transgovernmental Networks
Noha Shawki.
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., September, 2005
National Human Rights Institutions: A New Actor in International Human rights Politics?
Noha Shawki.
Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April, 2005
Global Civil Society and Human Security Initiatives: Towards Transformative or Reformative Change?
Noha Shawki.
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, September, 2004
Structural Conditions and Regime Change: The Prospects of Democracy in the Arab Middle East
Noha Shawki, Charity Butcher.
Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April, 2004
Beautiful, Bloody, Precious Stones: Blood Diamonds, Global Public Policy Networks and Global Governance
Noha Shawki.
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March, 2004
Global Public Policy Networks as Actors in Global Governance
Noha Shawki.
Southern Political Science Association Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January, 2004
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