Russell Stone
Director
AU Profile
rstone@american.edu
Russell A. Stone has research and teaching interests that include development, public opinion, social change, Middle Eastern and Third World societies, and environmental sociology. He has published on social change in Israel and the Middle East, and recently co-edited Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship. Advisory editor for a book series on Israel Studies at SUNY Press. He is Director of American University's Center for Israel Studies, and was formerly administrative officer of the Association for Israeli Studies. Prof. Stone has been a consultant to research projects on environmental attitudes at Academic Sinica in Taiwan and is working on comparative studies of Palestinian and Israeli political and social attitudes, based on public opinion polls, as well as on comparative international attitude and value studies toward issues of peace.
Laura Katz Cutler
Deputy Director
cutler@american.edu
Laura Katz Cutler is Deputy Director of the Center for Israel Studies at American University. A former commercial banker with Wells Fargo Bank, Ms. Cutler is a community activist and active member of the Washington, DC Jewish community, where she has been a tireless advocate for Israel and for innovation in Jewish education. She is past chairman of the board of PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values and was a founding board member of the Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning. Ms. Cutler serves on the boards of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and United Jewish Endowment Fund. She holds a masters degree in international relations from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Dr. Maurice Roumani
AU Profile
Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Visiting Professor, 2009-2010
roumani@BGU.AC.IL
The Center for Israel Studies welcomes to American University Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Visiting Professor Maurice Roumani. Maurice Roumani was Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle East Studies, as well as the founder and Director of the J.R. Elyachar Center for the Study of Sephardi Heritage at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel. He earned his BA with honors from Brandeis University, MA from the University of Chicago and PhD from the University of London. Dr. Roumani has held research and teaching positions at universities in the United States, Israel, and Italy. His fields of interest are: International Relations, Middle East and North African Politics, Minorities in Arab countries, and Relations between Islam and Judaism. In addition to articles and chapters in books on these subjects, Dr. Roumani is the author of From Immigrant to Citizen: The Contribution of the Army to National Integration in Israel; The Jews from Arab Countries: A Neglected Issue; Ethnicity, and Integration and the Military, edited with Henry Dietz and Jerrold Elkin. His most recent book is The Jews of Libya: Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement. He is a member of interfaith organizations in Israel and overseas and serves on the international board of journals, the latest among which is Religioni e Societa, an Italian quarterly journal on society and religion. As a visiting professor, he will teach Israeli Society; Israeli Politics; and Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa.
Calvin Goldscheider
Scholar in Residence
calvin.goldscheider@BROWN.EDU
Dr. Calvin Goldscheider joined the American University faculty as a Polinger Scholar in Residence in fall 2006 and returns this fall to guide and mentor students, work with faculty, and advise the Center for Israel Studies. Dr. Goldscheider is an internationally renowned scholar in Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, sociology, and demography. He retired from a distinguished career at Brown University, where he was Professor of Sociology, Ungerleider Professor of Judaic Studies, and faculty associate of the Population Studies and Training Center. He earned his PhD at Brown University and was formerly professor of sociology and demography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and chairman of its Department of Demography. Goldscheider has also held faculty appointments at the University of Southern California, the University of California at Berkeley, and Brandeis University and was a senior Fulbright research scholar and visiting professor at the Center for Women's Studies at Stockholm University. Author or editor of 24 books, he includes among his most recent publications Israel's Changing Society (2002); Cultures and Conflict: The Arab-Israeli Conflict (2002); and Studying the Jewish Future (2004).
Faculty Advisory Committee
Boaz Atzili: School of International Service
Erran Carmel: Kogod School of Business, Information Technology
Kenneth Cohen: Kay Spiritual Life Center, Director of AU Hillel
Alan Kraut: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Robert Lerman: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
Alan Levine: School of Public Affairs, Government
Richard Linowes: Kogod School of Business, Management
Pamela Nadell: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, Jewish Studies
Herman Schwartz: Washington College of Law
Rita Simon: School of Public Affairs: Justice, Law and Society
Marcela Sulak: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Literature
Faculty Affiliates
Lynn Addington: School of Public Affairs, Justice Law and Society
Richard Breitman: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Philip Brenner: School of International Service
Frank DuBois: Kogod School of Business, International Business
Amos Golan: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
Gershon Greenberg: College of Arts and Sciences, Philosophy and Religion
Jill Klein: Kogod School of Business, Executive in Residence
Saul Newman: School of Public Affairs, Government
Scott Parker: College of Arts and Sciences, Psychology
Naima Prevots: College of Arts and Sciences, Performing Arts, Emeritus
David Rosenbloom: School of Public Affairs, Public Administration and Policy
Myra Sklarew, College of Arts and Sciences, Literature, Emeritus
Jeffrey Sosland: Washington Semester
Stanley Weiss: College of Arts and Sciences, Psychology
Michael Wenthe: College of Arts and Sciences, Literature
Howard Wachtel: College of Arts and Sciences: Department of Economics, Emeritus
Yael Warshel: School of International Service
Guy Ziv: School of International Service
