Marjorie
N.
Feld
Marjorie N. Feld
Babson College
Louis Apfelbaum and Hortense Braunstein Apfelbaum Fellow
Research Topic
From the Roots: A History of the Sustainable Jewish Farming Movement
Bio
Marjorie N. Feld is professor of history at Babson College where she teaches courses on U.S. social history, gender, labor, and food justice. She serves on the Academic Advisory Council of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her first book, Lillian Wald: A Biography (UNC Press, 2008) won the Saul Viener Book Prize of the American Jewish Historical Society. Feld's most recent book, The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism (NYU Press, 2024), was named one of National Public Radio’s “Books We Love” for 2024. She is at work on a new project tracing the history of sustainable Jewish farming.
Feld received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University.
Selected publications
- Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle over Apartheid (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
- With David Blodgett, “Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course in Sustainable Food Systems: Science and History Meet in ‘A World That Works,’” International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 24.9 (2021): 138–58.
