Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests

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.  He is currently working with Professor Richard D. Brown of the University of Connecticut on a study of bestiality in the early republic.  Doron 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 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.  His play, Behave Yourself Quietly, debut in New Haven in April 2007.

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 include classes on the historiography of the early republic and sexuality in America, and a joint class with Anne Hoffman of the English department entitled Hysteria: Histories Texts.