Rebecca L. Stein, Director Graduate Studies
| Office Location: | 201C Science Building |
| Office Phone: | 919-684-4663 |
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Office Hours:
Mondays, 10:00-12:00 and by appointment
Research Interests:
- My research studies Israeli cultural politics in the context of the Israeli occupation, the history of Israeli state formation, and the legacy of Palestinian dispossession which it entailed. I am the coeditor of two recent volumes: Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2005) with Ted Swedenburg and The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 (Stanford University Press, 2006) with Joel Beinin and the author of Itineraries in Conflict: The Political Life of Tourism in Israel and the Middle East which considers the relationship between tourism and nation-making in Israel during the Oslo Process of the 1990s (Duke University Press, in press). I am currently working on a new project entitled Repossessions: The Social Life of Palestinian Things in Contemporary Israel that examines the history and circulation of Palestinian objects in Jewish-Israeli daily lives – both objects acquired during the course of the Palestinian dispossession and those purchased by Israelis in the wake of state-formation. I am interested in what daily objects and acts of repossession might tell us about Israeli identity and nation-making.
My work on Israeli cultural politics has appeared in such journals as Social Text, Public Culture, Theory and Event, Journal of Palestine Studies, and Middle East Report.
Current projects: Dispossessions: The Social Life of Palestinian Things in Contemporary Israel
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- R.L. Stein. Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism. Duke University Press, Spring 2008.
- Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg (eds.). Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture. Duke University Press, 2005.
- Joel Beinin and Rebecca L. Stein (editors). The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005. Stanford University Press, 2006.
