Doron Ben-Atar

Professor of history, Fordham University

Doron S. Ben-Atar is chair of the history department at Fordham University.

In addition to co-authoring “What Time and Sadness Spared,” Mr. Ben-Atar has written and co-authored several books, including “Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power.”

Mr. Ben-Atar is also the co-director of the web-based project “Crossroads of Revolution to Cradle of Reform — Litchfield Connecticut: 1751-1833.”

He was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library from 2003 to 2004. Mr. Ben-Atar was also a Morse Fellow from 1993 to 1994, and winner of a Fordham Faculty Research Grant in 2000.