Katsiginis, Alexia

Alexia Katsiginis is a Ph.D. candidate and ATER at Sciences Po Law School, under the supervision of Professor Helena Alviar García. Her research studies the affective turn in international human rights and considers how emotions cause us to become invested in social systems. Her research works with emotions as cultural objects that help law acquire meaning and asks how we come to know bodies, discourses, concepts through or because of how we feel about them. The importance of this inquiry is that it helps explain how structures of domination become resilient and opens up new ways of resisting.

Alexia has a master’s degree in public international law from the London School of Economic and Political Sciences (LSE), and a Bachelor of Law and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Pretoria.

Alexia is the main instructor for an undergraduate course on critical theory and international law, and a teaching assistant to Helena Alviar García for a master’s course on feminism and anti-discrimination, both at Sciences Po. She is also a tutor at the Sciences Po Law School Clinic for the Human Rights, Economic Development and Globalization (HEDG) programme on housing justice, partnered with the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing.

Her main research interests include: human rights, critical legal theory, TWAIL, and affect theory. She has related interests in feminism and women’s rights, the UN human rights system, and criminal justice and prison reform. 

Contact: alexia.katsiginis@sciencespo.fr