Dr Marcelo Svirsky is a senior lecturer at the School for Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong. He researches settler-colonial societies particularly Israel-Palestine, and focuses on questions of social transformation and decolonisation.

He has published extensively in academic journals and various books and edited collections. His last book, co-authored with Ronnen Ben-Arie, is titled From Shared Life to Co-Resistance in Historic Palestine (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017).