Dr. Doron Ben-Atar

CS

Research Affiliate, YIISA

Professor Doron Ben-Atar is chair of Fordham University's history department and a playwright. His play Peace Warriors will debut in Washington in July 2009 and Behave Yourself Quietly debut in New Haven in April 2007. Professor Ben-Atar is currently working with Professor Richard D. Brown of the University of Connecticut on a study of bestiality in the early republic. He is the author of Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power (Yale University Press, 2004); What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust together with Roma Nutkiewicz Ben-Atar (University of Virginia Press, 2006); and The Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy and Diplomacy (Macmillan, 1993). Ben-Atar co-edited with Barbara B. Oberg Federalists Reconsidered, (University Press of Virginia, 1998). He has been a frequent commentator on the modern Middle East on many radio and television programs, and has written about current international affairs in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Jerusalem Report and the Globalist. In 2003-04 Ben-Atar was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

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