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Research Interests
Doron Ben-Atar is a historian of the early American republic and a playwright. He is currently working with Professor Richard D. Brown on a study of bestiality in the early republic. Ben-Atar 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). Ben-Atar’s play Peace Warriors debut in Washington DC in July 2009 and Behave Yourself Quietly debuted in New Haven in April 2007.
Ben-Atar is a member of Fordham’s history department and American Studies, Middle East Studies, and Women’s Studies program, as well as a research Affiliate of The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism. He has been a frequent commentator on the modern Middle East on many radio and in The television programs, and has written about current international affairs 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.
Ben-Atar teaches undergraduate courses on the history of the early American republic, the history of sexuality in the United States, American Legal History and American diplomatic history, the US in the Middle East and the history of modern Israel. His graduate courses include classes on the historiography of the early republic and sexuality in America.
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