Doron Ben-Atar is chair of the history department at Fordham and a member of Fordham’s Middle East Studies and Women’s Studies programs.  Ben-Atar is the co-director of the web-base project Crossroads of Revolution to Cradle of Reform: Litchfield Connecticut 1751-1833.  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).  His most recent scholarly articles include, “Den Geist in die Flasche Sperren? Der britische Kampt gegen amerkanische Industriepiraten,” Internationale Politik 4 (April 2006); "Pirates of the Potomac," Legal Affairs (2004) "Pride, Ambition and Resentment: The American Revolution Revisited," for the Oxford History of the British Empire (2000); "The Jewish American Question," Journal of Urban History (1999); "Nationalism, Neo-Mercantilism, and Diplomacy: Rethinking the Franklin Mission," Diplomatic History (1998). Ben-Atar has been a frequent commentator on the modern Middle East on many radio and television programs. He has written about current international affairs in The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Globalist .

Ben-Atar was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in 2003-2004. He has also won the Morse Fellowship in 1993-94 and Fordham Faculty Research Grant in 2000. Among his recent talks are: “Voice and Memory in the History of the Holocaust” St John’s Phi Alpha Theta Historical Honor Society, April 2006; “Whose Holocaust is it Anyway?” Yale Center for Genocide Studies, April 2006; “Can We Keep the Genie Locked in the Bottle?  The Battle against Technology Piracy in Historical Context,”  ALTANA Forum für Bildung und Wissenschaft, Herbert-Quandt-Stiftung, Berlin November 2005; “The Free Ride of Paul Revere: The Moral Climate of IP in the Early Republic,” annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Cincinnati, November 2005; “U.S. Path to Wealth and Power: Intellectual Piracy and the Making of America,” Public address in “Contested Commons-Trespassing Publics” Conference sponsored by SARAI/CSDS Delhi, Alternative Law Forum Banglore, and India’s Public Service Broadcasting Trust, New Delhi, January 2005; “History and Psychoanalysis: Joint Challenges in the XXI century,” Instituto de Psicoanalisis de la Associacion Psicoanalitica Mexicana,” Mexico City, Mexico, September 2004; "Democracy and Development: Past and Present" New York Public Library, May 2004; "Intellectual Property in the Early Republic" Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University Law School, May 2004; "The Strange Life and Death of Litchfield's Dirty Old Man," in a panel "Punishing the Crime of Bestiality in the Early Republic," at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Boston March 2004; "The Dirty Old Man of Litchfield Connecticut," Berger Forum, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, January 2004.   "Reflections on Voice and Memory: A Mother's Holocaust Through the Lens of her Son," New York Public Library, September 17, 2003. (This paper was given also in Israel in Hebrew in December 2003 and in English at the Taste of Honey Workshop of the Department of Jewish Education in New Haven, Connecticut, on January 30, 2004); "Reflections on Bestiality in the Early Republic: The Case of Gideon Washburn" in a panel on "'Unnatural' Sex and Capital Punishment in the Early Republic: Cases from Connecticut and Massachusetts."

In addition to teaching the core survey course in American history, Dr. Ben-Atar teaches undergraduate courses on the history of the early American republic, the transformation of New England, history of sexuality in the United States, American Legal History and American diplomatic history.  Ben-Atar teaches a seminar on the US in the Middle East and the history of modern Israel.  His graduate courses focus on combining historical narrative and psychoanalytic insights. He is a founding member of Fordham University's faculty seminar on Psychoanalysis and is working with members of other departments to develop interdisciplinary graduate seminars.