Dr. Dov Waxman holds the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also the director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. He has had visiting fellowships at Oxford University, Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, and his B.A. from Oxford University. He is the author of four books: "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), "Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel" (Princeton University Press, 2016), and most recently, "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford University Press, 2019).