Rebecca L. Stein's (PhD Stanford U 1999) research examines the relationship between Israeli cultural politics and transnational political processes in the Middle East, in the context of the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Her recent writing has explored the ways that Israeli popular culture is consumed in articulation with the transnational circuits of capital, labor, and culture that have attended the geopolitical reconfiguration of the region during the last decade. Trained in both cultural anthropology and cultural theory, her work is situated at the intersection of anthropology, post-structural theory, and political economy. Stein's teaching in the areas of Israel and Palestine history and culture, colonialism and nationalism, popular culture and consumption, gender and queer studies.