An authority on the history and politics of the Middle East, Dr. Kramer earned his doctorate from Princeton University under the supervision of Bernard Lewis. Since then, he has been a faculty member at Tel Aviv University, where he directed the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. He was also the founding president of Shalem College in Jerusalem, Israel’s first liberal arts college, and served as the first chair of its Middle East and Islamic studies program.
Dr. Kramer has been a visiting professor or fellow at Brandeis, Chicago, Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins universities and the Wilson Center.