Russell A. Stone

Professor, Professor & Director of the Center for Israel Studies

PhD, Princeton University

E-mail: rstone@american.edu    
Phone: 202-885-2482   
Office: Battelle-Tompkins, T-19

Professor Stone is the Graduate Advisor of the Sociology Department.

Russell A. Stone (PhD Princeton University) has research and teaching interests that include development, public opinion, social change, Middle Eastern and Third World societies, and environmental sociology.  He has published on social change in Israel and the Middle East, and recently co-edited Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship.  Advisory editor for a book series on Israel Studies at SUNY Press, Dr. Stone speaks Hebrew and French.  He is Director of American University’s Center for Israeli Studies, and was formerly administrative officer of the Association for Israeli Studies.  Prof. Stone has been a consultant to research projects on environmental attitudes at Academic Sinica in Taiwan and is working on comparative studies of Palestinian and Israeli political and social attitudes, based on public opinion polls, as well as on comparative international attitude and value studies toward issues of peace.