Martin S. Kramer

Martin Kramer is a historian at Tel Aviv University and the Walter P. Stern fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is an authority on the history and politics of the Middle East and Israel.

Kramer earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton, where he prepared his thesis under the supervision of Bernard Lewis. He has been a visiting professor or fellow at Brandeis, Chicago, Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Pepperdine, and the Wilson Center. He was the founding president of Shalem College in Jerusalem, Israel's first liberal arts school, and served as first chair of its Middle East and Islamic studies program.