Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University
Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School

  • Media Studies

  • Legal Anthropology

  • AI Models and Databases

  • Legal Pluralism

  • Feminist Postcolonial Theory

  • South Asia

Salwa Hoque is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the AIAI Network (based in Emory University), and a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project in Yale Law School.

She works at the intersection of law and technology, specializing in legal pluralism, databases, automation, and women’s rights.

Salwa is currently working on her book – Automating (In)Justice: Law, Gender, and Neocolonial Digitality– which bridges media studies and legal anthropology to rethink questions of AI, law, and justice. 

She teaches across NYU and Emory University.

    • Major: South Asia Studies

    • Dissertation: “The Complexities of Secularism in Bangladesh.”

    • Research Areas: Political Theory; History; Postcolonial Theory

    • Committee: Sudipta Kaviraj and Katherine Ewing

    • Major: Communication; English (Honors)

    • Honors Thesis: “Biopolitics and Neocolonial Power in Postcolonial S.E. Asia”

    • Research Area: English; Critical Theory; Postcolonial Theory

    • Supervisors: Gillian Harkins and Alys Weinbaum

Current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, AIAI Network | Emory

Director, Yale-Majority World Initiative | Yale Law School

Fellow, Information Society Project | Yale Law School

Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University
Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School

  • Media Studies

  • Legal Anthropology

  • AI Models and Databases

  • Legal Pluralism

  • Feminist Postcolonial Theory

  • South Asia

Salwa Hoque is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the AIAI Network (based in Emory University), and a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project in Yale Law School.

She works at the intersection of law and technology, specializing in legal pluralism, databases, automation, and women’s rights.

Salwa is currently working on her book – Automating (In)Justice: Law, Gender, and Neocolonial Digitality– which bridges media studies and legal anthropology to rethink questions of AI, law, and justice. 

She teaches across NYU and Emory University.

Award Highlights

Distinction: Doctoral Commencement Speaker 2024, NYU Steinhardt

Research and Showcase Competition 2022, First Place; Title: “Digitizing Law: Data and Justice”, NYU Steinhardt

Winner of Robinson Prize Paper-Presentation 2022, Title: “Digital Databases: Colonial Legacies Reinscribed in Technologies”, Society for the History of Technology

Outstanding Teaching Award 2024, NYU

Outstanding Service to the Department Award 2024, NYU

Doctoral Commencement Speaker 2024, NYU

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