Ronnie Grinberg is Associate Professor of History and core faculty member of the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals published by Princeton University Press in spring 2024. The book has received wide critical acclaim in venues including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The Times Literary Supplement, and was long listed for a National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) award in criticism, received Honorable Mention for the Saul Viener Book Prize from American Jewish Historical Society, and was a finalist in two categories for the National Jewish Book Award. Her articles include “‘The First Lady of Neoconservatism’: Midge Decter and the Politics of Family Values,” in the Journal of American History and “Neither “‘Sissy’ Boy nor Patrician Man: New York Intellectuals and the Construction of American Jewish Masculinity,” which won the Wasserman Prize for most outstanding article in the journal American Jewish History.
Current book projects include a co-edited volume on an American Jewish intellectual tradition and an intellectual history of second wave feminism that focuses on the intersection of secular Jewishness and feminist writings. She has also begun conceptualizing a project on the history of journals of public opinion in the United States.
Grinberg serves as the book editor at the Journal of Women’s History, and regularly teaches classes on twentieth century American history, women’s and gender history, and American Jewish history.
