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Prof. Rebecca L. Stein

Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University

I am a cultural anthropologist researching linkages between culture and politics in Israel in the context of the Israeli military occupation and legacy of the Palestinian dispossession.

I am the author and/or editor of five books in the field of anti-colonial Israel/Palestine studies. My latest book, Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2021), is the culmination of a multi-book project about the ways that new media and communication technologies are recalibrating the Israeli relationship to its military occupation. My first book on this topic — Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age (with Adi Kuntsman, Stanford University Press, 2015) — studied the place of social media within this equation.My public scholarship on these topics has appeared in such outlets as London Review of Books (online), Open Democracy, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Middle East Report.