S. Ilan Troen is Lopin Profession of Modern History, emeritus, Ben-Gurion University of Negev and the Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies, emeritus, Brandeis University. He academic career is primarily focused in Israel Studies, but has authored and edited many books on American, Jewish and Israeli history, from “Jews and Muslims in the Arab World; Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined” (2007) to “Zionism in the 21st Century” in 2014 with Rachel Fish. He served as President of the Association for Israel Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Ben-Gurion University. He was the founding Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University and Director of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University. He is the founding editor of the journal, "Israel Studies" (Indiana University Press), the leading journal in the Israel Studies space. Professor Troen has lectured globally and been a scholar-in-residence at places such as the Bnai Brith Scholar in Seattle, Solellim in Chicago, AIPAC and plenty more.