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Rebecca L. Stein

Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
205 Friedl Building, 1316 Campus Drive Duke Box 900, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Perpetrator Visualities - Association of Postcolonial Thought · October 2024 - October 2024 Invited Talk University of Massachusetts, Amherst
How to Un-See Gaza: Israeli Visual Politics in a Time of Genocide - Council on Middle East Studies Colloquium · October 2024 - October 2024 Invited Talk Yale University, Council on Middle East Studies Colloquium
Israeli Visual Politics in a Time of Genocide - Perpetrator images workshop · September 2024 - September 2024 Invited Talk Bard University and Copenhagen University, NYC
AI in Gaza · June 2024 - June 2024 Lecture University of Leiden and Duke University, Amsterdam

Co-convened conference and gave paper

Synthetic Vision / Images of Power Conference - Synthetic Vision / Images of Power Conference · June 2024 - June 2024 International Meeting or Conference Amsterdam

Co-convened conference with colleagues at University of Leiden and gave paper

Service to the Profession


Member of External Review Committee · March 2024 - March 2024 Other Harvard University, Harvard University, Department of Cultural Anthropology
Member of Executive Committee · 2021 - 2025 Committee Service Palestinian American Research Center, Washington DC

Ongoing role as member of executive committee

Manuscripts reviewed for Society and Space: Environment and Planning D · December 22, 2011 Editorial Activities
Chair, Fellowship review committe; Palestinian American Research Council · December 22, 2011 Editorial Activities
Chair, Fellowship review committee - Palestinian American Research Council · December 2011 Editorial Activities

Papers Refereed

Service to Duke


Provost Initiative on the Middle East (University) · November 2024 - 2025 Committee Service Provost,

Helped plan events and coordinate University response to current events

Member, Hiring Committee (Department) · 2024 - 2025 Committee Service Office of the Provost,

Member of the hiring committee for the Vice Provost for Finance and Administration

Executive Committee, Duke Middle East Studies Center (University) · 2024 - 2025 Committee Service Duke Middle East Studies Center, Duke Middle East Studies Center

I have served for a decade

Executive Committee, Center for Jewish Studies (University) · 2024 - 2025 Committee Service Center for Jewish Studies, Duke

I have served for a decade on this committee

Director of Graduate Studies · 2024 - 2025 Other Cultural Anthropology,