2023–2025 Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr. Elizabeth Stein's research focuses on Israel-Diaspora relations, diaspora politics broadly, and political division, activism, and organizational fragmentation among Jews in the United States, France, and Canada on matters concerning Israel. Her dissertation examined why “pushback” activist and advocacy organizations, whose positions on Israel and Zionism vary but which broadly oppose mainstream, establishment Jewish and Israel-advocacy organizations in their respective states, are significantly less well-developed in France and Canada than they are in the US. Dr. Stein received her doctorate from Queen's University, Canada, and is currently developing her dissertation, which was awarded Honorable Mention by the International Studies Association’s International Relations and Religion section, into a book manuscript. She also teaches the course "Special Studies in International Relations: Diaspora Politics" in the UCLA Dept. of Political Science.