Rebecca L. Stein
Assistant Professor

Office Location: 201C Science Building
Office Phone: 919-684-4663
Email Address: rlstein@duke.edu

Specialties:
Middle East
Nationalism
Post Colonialism
Globalization
Sexuality
Culture Theory

Education:
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999
M.A., Stanford University, 1995
B.A. (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Amherst College, 1991

Current projects: Repossessions: The Social Life of Palestinian Things in Contemporary Israel

Research Description: 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, forthcoming). 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.

Areas of Interest:
Middle East
Israeli cultural studies
Postcolonial studies

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• ICS 90BD.001, Intro to cultural anthro

  White 107, MW 11:40 AM-12:30 PM

• CULANTH 94D.001, Intro to cultural anthro Synopsis

  White 107, MW 11:40 AM-12:30 PM

• CULANTH 191AS.01, The middle east in pop culture Synopsis

  Friedl bdg 204, Tu 01:15 PM-03:45 PM

Teaching (Spring 2010):

• CULANTH 191BS.01, Anthropology of space Synopsis

  Friedl bdg 204, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• CULANTH 306S.01, Space, place, and power

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. R.L. Stein, Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism (2008), Duke University Press .
2. Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg (eds.), Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture (2005), Duke University Press .
3. Joel Beinin and Rebecca L. Stein (editors), The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 (2006), Stanford University Press .

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