Dr. Rebecca L. Stein is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Women’s Studies at Duke University. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 1999. Her research studies Israeli cultural politics in the context of the Israeli occupation, the history of Israeli state formation, and the legacy of Palestinian dispossession. She is the author of Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism (Duke University Press, 2008) which considers the relationship between tourism, mobility politics, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 with Joel Beinin (Stanford University Press, 2006), and coeditor of Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2005) with Ted Swedenburg. She is currently working on Digital Occupations – a book project that studies linkages between new media and militarism in Israel, with a focus on how social media is changing the contours of military occupation. Portions of this work have recently been published in Middle East Report, the London Review of Books blog, and Critical Inquiry (online forum on the ‘Arab Spring’). Stein’s work on Israeli cultural politics has appeared in such journals as The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Social Text, Public Culture, Theory and Event, Journal of Palestine Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.