Marjorie Feld

Marjorie N. Feld’s teaching and research interests include U.S. social, labor, and gender history, along with the history of global human rights movements, food justice, and sustainability. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Council of Jewish Voice for Peace and a member of Concerned Jewish Faculty and Staff.

Her first book, Lillian Wald: A Biography, published in 2008 by University of North Carolina Press, won the Saul Viener Book Prize of the American Jewish Historical Society, an award presented biannually to an “outstanding book in American Jewish History.” At Babson, she received a Nan Langowitz Women Who Make a Difference award in 2009, the Martin Luther King Leadership Award in 2014, and the Babson Pride Award in 2017. From 2011-2015, she was the faculty director for Babson’s Center for Women’s Leadership. Her second book, Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle Over Apartheid, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in July 2014. In 2019-2020, Feld was a Goldstein-Goren Fellow in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Her third book, published by New York University Press in May 2024, is The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism; it was named one of National Public Radio’s “Books We Love” for 2024. In Fall 2025, Feld was an International Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently researching a project on the history of American Jewish farming.