Dov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 2000 to 2004, he was the director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
Before joining UCLA, he was the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies and the co-director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University. He was previously an associate professor at the City University of New York and an assistant professor at Bowdoin College. He has also had visiting fellowships at Oxford University, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He graduated from Oxford University and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
His research and writing focus on contemporary antisemitism, the Israel-Palestine conflict, American Jewish politics, and U.S.-Israel relations. He is the author of four books: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019), Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016), Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011), and The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006). His writing has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Atlantic, among other publications. He is currently working on a book about the politics of contemporary antisemitism.