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Russell A. Stone
Professor, Professor & Director of the Center for Israel Studies
PhD, Princeton University
E-mail: rstone@american.edu
Phone: 202-885-2482
Office: Battelle-Tompkins, T-19
Professor Stone is the Graduate Advisor of the Sociology Department.
Professor Stone's research and teaching interests include development, public
opinion, social change, Middle Eastern and Third World societies, Israeli and
Palestinian society, politics and public opinion, and environmental sociology. He
has published on social change in Israel and the Middle East and has recently
co-edited
Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship. Advisory
editor for a book series on Israel Studies at SUNY Press, Dr. Stone speaks Hebrew
and French. He is a consultant to research projects on environmental attitudes
at Academic Sinica in Taiwan and is working on studies of the impacts of conflict
and Communist past on societal values, based on cross-national public opinion
polls, and on gender and voting behavior in Palestine.