Moynihan Middle Eastern Studies Program presents: Dov Waxman

Moynihan Middle Eastern Studies Program presents Dov Waxman: Trouble in the Tribe: The American-Jewish Conflict Over Israel

Dov Waxman, Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Israel Studies, Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies, Co-Director, Middle East Center, Northeastern University.

Dov Waxman is Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Israel Studies, and the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University. He is also the co-director of the university’s Middle East Center. An expert on Israel, his research focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli foreign policy, U.S.-Israel relations, and American Jewry’s relationship with Israel.

Originally from London, England, he received his B.A. degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. He moved to the United States for his graduate studies at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Before joining the faculty at Northeastern University, he was an associate professor of political science at the City University of New York, and an assistant professor of government at Bowdoin College. He has also held fellowships and visiting appointments at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, the Middle East Technical University, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, the Avraham Harman Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and St. John’s College at the University of Oxford.

He is the author of three books: The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (Palgrave, 2006), Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (with Ilan Peleg, Cambridge University Press, 2011), and Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (Princeton University Press, 2016). He is a frequent commentator in print, on radio, and on television, and he has lectured widely in the United States and abroad.

Sponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Program at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs