Dov Waxman is a professor of political science, international affairs and Israel studies, and he is the Stotsky professor of Jewish historical and cultural studies at Northeastern University. He is the director of Northeastern University’s Middle East studies program and the co-director of its Middle East Center. He has previously taught at the City University of New York, Bowdoin College and the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He has also been a visiting fellow at Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Oxford University. He is the author of "The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation" (Palgrave, 2006), "Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within" (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and "Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel" (Princeton University Press, 2016). His latest book is, "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford University Press, 2019). He received his PhD and MA from the Johns Hopkins University and his BA from Oxford University.