Faculty Perspective - Rebecca Stein

Elizabeth Thompson

Prof Stein leaning against a wall.

Rebecca Stein is in her second year of leading a Bass Connections team exploring the relationship between war, visual media and archiving, with a particular emphasis on the ways that wars have been witnessed, recorded and preserved on social media. Stein’s teams grew out of a partnership between Bass Connections and the Provost’s Initiative on the Middle East, which investigated topics related to geopolitical conflict and humanitarian crises.

Stein also participated in a lunchtime conversation, Bass Connections for Humanists, in October 2025, where she and fellow panelists discussed the value of participating in interdisciplinary research through Bass Connections for faculty in the arts, humanities and interpretive social sciences.

She shared her thoughts on her experiences as a team leader with Elizabeth Thompson (Assistant Director of Communications, Bass Connections) in March 2026.  Read more.