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Dov Waxman
Northeastern University
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (617) 373-3120
Northeastern University
225E Renaissance Park 360 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02115
United States
ABOUT
Dov Waxman is the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University, and a professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Israel Studies. He is the director of Northeastern University’s Middle East Studies program and the co-director of its Middle East Center. His research focuses on the Israel-Palestine conflict, Israeli foreign policy, U.S.-Israel relations, and Diaspora Jewry’s relationship with Israel. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and his B.A. from Oxford University. He has previously taught at the City University of New York, Bowdoin College, and the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey; and he has been a visiting fellow at Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Oxford University. He is the author of "The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation" (Palgrave, 2006), "Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within" (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and "Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel" (Princeton University Press, 2016). His latest book is "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Foreign Relations
Identity/Representation
Israel Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Conflict Resolution
Current Events
Human Rights
Judaic Studies
Nationalism
Security Studies
Zionism
Terrorism
Peace Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Israel
Palestine
North America
Specialties
Israeli Politics And Society
US-Israel Relations
Israel-Palestine Conflict
Languages
French (intermediate)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2002 | Intl Stds | Johns Hopkins U
BA | 1996 | Politics, Philosophy, Economics | Oxford University
Abstracts
Diaspora Peacemakers? The Role of American Jews in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process The Nation-State Law and the Rightwing Populist Challenge to Israeli Democracy