Jeremy Pressman has been a professor at the University of Connecticut since 2003. He is also the co-director of the Crowd Counting Consortium, a joint project of UConn and the Harvard Kennedy School. He has held fellowships at Harvard, the University of Sydney, Norwegian Nobel Institute, and the UConn Humanities Institute. He has written three books, The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force (2020), Warring Friends (2008) and Point of No Return: The Deadly Struggle for Middle East Peace (1997; co-author).