Felicia Kornbluh

Dr. Felicia Kornbluh (she/they) is Professor of History and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Vermont. She has served as a Visiting Professor at Princeton and at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and held fellowships from McGill, Berkeley, NYU, and the Schlesinger Library at Harvard.

Kornbluh graduated with honors from Harvard-Radcliffe College and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the History Department of Princeton University.  She is the author or coauthor of three books, including A Woman’s Life is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice (Grove, 2023). She is now writing a biographical study of Eleanor Roosevelt titled In Winter: America in the Eleanor Roosevelt Years, 1944-1962, and a study of same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court was involved in the issue titled Sharon and Karen: Disability, Sexuality, and Law on the Road to LGBTQA+ Rights.

Kornbluh writes regularly for the scholarly and popular press, including for The New York Review of Books, The American Prospect, Washington Post, New York Times Book Review, Atlantic, Time.com, and The Forward. She serves as President of the board of the Planned Parenthood of Vermont Action Fund, and as an editorial board member of The Journal of American Constitutional History, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Women in Judaism.

Find Kornbluh @VTFeminist on X and at the History Department, University of Vermont.