Professor Kenneth W. Stein

For forty years, Professor Kenneth W. Stein has taught Middle Eastern history, political science, and Israel studies at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. In spring 2006, he was a visiting professor of political science at Brown University. He has earned school-wide recognition for his scholarship, excellence in teaching, and life-long mentoring of students. He gained international recognition for his intellectual integrity in speaking out vigorously against the falsehoods in former President Jimmy Carter’s 2006 book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. His undergraduate class, “History, Politics, and Diplomacy of the Arab-Israeli Conflict” is one of Emory’s most popular classes. His books Heroic Diplomacy (1999) and The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939, remain scholarly standards for Arab-Israeli negotiations and Jewish nation-building respectively.

In the US, Stein has been a pioneer in Israel education. In 1998, he established and remains director of the Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, which has grown Israel studies inside Emory College. Outside Emory, he founded and remains President of The Center for Israel Education (CIE).