Rebecca L. Stein, Director Graduate Studies  

Rebecca L. Stein

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

Mailing Address

Education:
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999
M.A., Stanford University, 1995
B.A., Amherst College, 1991

Expertise:
Middle East
Mass Culture
Post Colonialism
Globalization
Sexuality
Culture Theory

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

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • Culanth 301.01, Theoretical foundations Synopsis
    Friedl bdg 204, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
  • Culanth 405s.01, Media and conflict Synopsis
    Friedl bdg 240, Th 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Stein, R; Kuntsman, A, Digital militarism : Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age (2015), Stanford University Press [available here] .
  2. R.L. Stein, Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism (2008), Duke University Press .
  3. Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg (eds.), Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture (2005), Duke University Press .
  4. Joel Beinin and Rebecca L. Stein (editors), The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 (2006), Stanford University Press .
  5. R.L. Stein, Dispossession Reconsidered: Israel, Nakba, Things (in French), Ethnologie Francaise -- Special issue, "Israel au Quotidien" (2015) .
  6. Stein, RL; Kuntsman, A, Selfie Militarism, London Review of Books (2014) [available here] .
  7. Stein, RL, Viral Occupation Cameras and Networked Human Rights in the West Bank, Middle East Report (2013) [mero032013] .
  8. Stein, RL, Inside Israel's Twitter War Room: History of a Social Media Arsenal, Middle East Report (2012) [mero112412] .
  9. Stein, RL, An All-Consuming Occupation, Middle East Report (2012) [mero062612] .
  10. Stein, RL, Impossible Witness: Israeli Visuality, Palestinian Testimony, and the Gaza War, Journal for Cultural Research (special issue on Arab Cultural Studies), vol. 16 no. 2-3 (2012), pp. 135-153, Informa UK Limited [repository], [doi]  [abs].
  11. Stein, RL, State Tube: Anthropological reflections on social media and the Israeli State, Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 85 no. 3 (September, 2012), pp. 893-916, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIV INST ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  12. Kuntsman, A; Stein, RL, Digital Suspicion, Politics, and the Middle East, Critical Inquiry (online feature on Arab Spring) (2011) [available here] .
  13. Kuntsman, A; Stein, RL, Another War Zone: New Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Middle East Report (2010) [another-war-zone] .
  14. Stein, RL, Israeli Routes Through Nakba Landscapes: An Ethnographic Meditation, Jerusalem Quarterly, vol. 43 (2010) [Israeli_Routes_Through_Nakba_Landscapes_An_Ethnographic_Meditation] .
  15. Stein, RL, EXPLOSIVE, Glq: a Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16 no. 4 (October, 2010), pp. 517-536, Duke University Press [repository], [doi]  [abs].
  16. Stein, RL, TRAVELLING ZION Hiking and Settler-Nationalism in pre-1948 Palestine, Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 11 no. 3 (Fall, 2009), pp. 334-351, Informa UK Limited [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .

Areas of Interest:
Middle East
Israeli cultural studies
Postcolonial studies

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