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About

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Doron Ben-Atar is a History Professor and a playwright. Ben-Atar is the author of, together with Richard D. Brown of Taming Lust: Crimes against Nature in the Early Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014); 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, published in Hebrew by Yad Vashem Press, 2014); and The Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy and Diplomacy (Macmillan, 1993). Ben-Atar is the co-editor with Andrew Pessin of Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS (Indiana University Press, 2018) and with Barbara B. Oberg of Federalists Reconsidered (University Press of Virginia, 1998). Ben-Atar’s produced plays are Autobiography (2013), The Worst Man (2011), Peace Warriors (2009) and Behave Yourself Quietly (2007).

Ben-Atar teaches undergraduate courses on the history of the early American republic; the history of sexuality in the United States; hysteria sexuality and the unconscious; the US in the Middle East; the history of modern Israel, and the history of antisemitism. His graduate courses include classes on the historiography of the Early Republic, and sexuality in America.