Mark Oppenheimer
Professor of Practice and Executive Editor, Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
I am interested in the history of American religion, in the practice of journalism and other forms of nonfiction writing, and in Anglophone fiction. My current projects include biographies of Judy Blume and Ann Landers and a documentary about the word “like.”
Mark Oppenheimer is Professor of Practice and Executive Editor, Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera. He joined the Center in May 2024 and brings a wealth of experience in journalism and academia. He has taught at Stanford, Wesleyan, Wellesley, NYU, Boston College, and Yale, where he was the founding director of the Yale Journalism Initiative. From 2010 to 2016, he wrote the “Beliefs” column, about religion, for The New York Times, and he has also written for publications including The New Yorker, The Nation, GQ, Slate, and The Wall Street Journal. He created Unorthodox, the world’s most popular podcast about Jewish life and culture, with over 7 million downloads to date and the podcast Gatecrashers, about the history of Jews and antisemitism at Ivy League schools.
Oppenheimer is the author of five books, including the co-authored The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia and, most recently, Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood. He is currently working on a biography of children’s author Judy Blume.
Oppenehimer holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale.
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Gatecrashers
A podcast about the hidden history of Jews and the Ivy League, from Mark Oppenheimer.
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