Rebecca L. Stein

About Fellow

Rebecca Stein is a cultural anthropologist at Duke University researching linkages between culture and politics in Israel in the context of the Israeli military occupation and legacy of the Palestinian dispossession. She is the author and/or editor of five books in the field of anti-colonial Israel/Palestine studies—most recently, Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (Stanford Unviersity Press, 2021) about the varying ways that digital photographic technologies and networked images have recalibrated the Israeli relationship to its military occupation. Her research has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Palestinian American Research Council, and the Trent Foundation.

Selected Publications

• Stein, Rebecca L. “Gaza and the Rise of Synthetic Militarism: On Genocide and Generative AI.” Media, Culture & Society (2026).
• Stein, Rebecca L. “How to Unsee Gaza: Israeli Visual Politics in a Time of Genocide.” Communication, Culture and Critique (2026).
• Stein, Rebecca L. “Vanishing Acts: How the Israeli Media Manages Gaza.” Antipode 56 (2024).
• Stein, Rebecca L. “The Visual Terms of State Violence in Israel/Palestine: An Interview with Rebecca L. Stein.” Philosophy of Photography 14 (2023).
• Stein, Rebecca L. Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021.