Dr. Kenneth W. Stein, CIE President, is recognized world-wide as a leading expert on Israel and the Middle East. He is widely published and has received numerous teaching awards. His dedication to marrying academic scholarship with innovative pedagogy is unmatched. Since 1998, Dr. Stein has conducted more than two dozen professional development workshops for more than 1,500 educators, who have impacted thousands of students.
Since 1977, Professor Kenneth W. Stein, CIE President, has taught modern Middle Eastern History and Political Science at Emory University. Throughout his years in academia, he has maintained a focus on the history and politics of modern Israel, the modern Arab world, and American foreign policy toward the region. He is widely published and has received numerous teaching awards. His college teaching remains centered on analyzing original sources to unfold the story of the Modern Middle East and, likewise, that of Zionism and Israel. From 1998 forward he has successfully extended his efforts, utilizing documents and texts to enrich and expand the understanding of Israel among pre-collegiate Jewish teachers as well. Allowing learners to use original sources to unfold the story of Israel for themselves has become the backbone of this website and of CIE’s work. Some of these sources are assembled in this website in the Resource Library, or are accessible through our shop. These texts and documents continue to provide the architecture for CIE’s signature professional development workshops. This central feature of CIE’S scholarly program has taught more than 1,500 educators, rabbis, and lay leaders about Zionism and modern Israel.
Stein’s honors at Emory University include the highest awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching (1995), recognition for internationalizing the College’s curriculum (2001), and as a lifelong exceptional mentor to students (2009). The Anti-Defamation League and the Israel on Campus Coalition awarded him the Ross Award (2007) for his intellectual integrity in speaking out against the falsehoods in former President Jimmy Carter’s 2006 book “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.”
In 1998, Stein established the Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel [ISMI], which he continues to direct today. ISMI is responsible for enhancing Emory University’s undergraduate setting by inviting visiting Israeli scholars and by introducing new courses on Israel into the curriculum. In 2007, Dr. Stein established the Center for Israel Education. He currently serves as CIE’s President.
Dr. Stein received his undergraduate BA degree from Franklin and Marshall College (1968), a Masters in Middle Eastern History (1969) and Near Eastern Literatures and Languages (1971), and a Doctorate in modern Middle Eastern History from The University of Michigan (1976). From 1971-1973, he did dissertation research and language study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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