Jacques Berlinerblau, Professor, Center for Jewish Civilization,
Ph.D, 1999, Sociology, The New School for Social Research
Ph.D, 1991, Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, New York University.
Jacques Berlinerblau is currently the Rabbi Harold White Professor of Jewish Civilization at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Berlinerblau has published on a wide variety of issues ranging from secularism, to religion and politics, to Jewish-American fiction, to African-American and Jewish-American relations, to American higher education.
His has published thirty-five scholarly articles and ten books. The latter include: How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); Secularism on the Edge (Palgrave; co-edited with Sarah Fainberg and Aurora Nou); Thumpin' It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Today's Presidential Politics (Westminster John Knox), The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (Cambridge University Press). Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibility of American Intellectuals (Rutgers University Press). His 2017 book was Campus Confidential: How College Works, or Doesn't, for Professors, Parents, and Students (Melville House).
In 2021-2022 he released three scholarly books. The first was The Philip Roth We Don't Know: Sex, Race and Autobiography (University of Virginia Press). The second was Secularism: The Basics (Routledge). The third, co-authored with Professor Terrence Johnson, was Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue (Georgetown University Press). In 2023 his study of secular African constitutions (co-authored with Bethania Michael and Alexander Lin) will appear in the Journal of Church and State.
Berlinerblau has written for, appeared on, or had his work discussed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Salon, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Nation, NPR, Tablet, Commentary, The Forward, The Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Canadian Broadcast Network, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed , Al-Jazeera, PBS, MSNBC, CBS, CBC, TF1, AFP, and CNN .