"The current outstanding issues between Israel and the Palestinians were identified and delineated at Oslo, and much of what has happened since has been the attempt to work out those matters. Most commentators agree that the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel in the future is inevitable. However, the boundaries of the Palestinian and Israeli states, and the relationship between the two entities -- and their neighbors -- are far from clear. The major concerns of both sides revolve around security, the status of Jerusalem, the future of the Jewish settlements in the territories, the return of, or compensation owed to, the Palestinian refugees, and water resources."

• Professor of the Modern Middle East

• Scholarships and fellowships from Radcliffe College and Harvard University
• Ford Foundation Fellowship
• Phi Alpha Theta (national history honorary)
• UMKC Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Faculty Award from Doctoral Student Association, 1995

• A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 4th edition, (co-author Ian J. Bickerton) New York, Prentice-Hall, 2002
• Approaches to the Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Second Truman Administration, unpublished monograph, 1985
• "Zionism in the Kansas City Jewish Community", chapter (42 pages) in Mid-America's Promise: A Profile of Kansas City Jewry, American Jewish Historical Society, 1982
• From Destruction to Rebirth: The Holocaust and the State of Israel, edited and with an introduction by Carla L. Klausner and Joseph P. Schultz, University Press of America, 1978
• The Seljuk Vezirate: A Study of Civil Administration 1055-1194, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973