Greenberg, David

David Greenberg
Distinguished Professor of History and Journalism & Media Studies
Degree: Ph.D., Columbia University, 2001
Additional Degree(s): B.A., Yale University, 1990
Rutgers : At Rutgers since 2004
Specialty: Modern US: Political and Media History
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Office: 106 DeWitt
Research Interests: I write for a variety of scholarly and popular audiences about politics, ideas, media and culture in American history. My most recent book is John Lewis: A Life, a biography of the civil rights leader and longtime congressman, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2025.

Simon & Schuster (2024)

Alan Brinkley: A Life in History

Columbia University Press, 2019

W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

John Lewis: A Life (Simon & Schuster, 2024).
Alan Brinkley: A Life in History (Columbia University Press, 2019).
Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency (W. W. Norton, 2017).
Calvin Coolidge. Henry Holt (American Presidents Series). 2006.
Presidential Doodles: Two centuries of scribbles, scratches, squiggles and scrawls from the Oval Office. Basic Books, 2006. Paperback, 2007.
Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image. W. W. Norton, 2003. Paperback, 2004.

Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, 2025.
Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography, for John Lewis: A Life, 2025.
Malcolm Bell Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award, Georgia Historical Society, for John Lewis: A Life, 2025.
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2023–2024.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Scholar, 2023–2024.
Fellowship, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, 2021–22.
Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Single Work in Popular Culture and American Culture from the Popular Culture Association, for Republic of Spin, 2017.
Goldsmith Award for Best Trade Book, from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University for Republic of Spin, 2017.
George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, from the National Council of Teachers of English, for Republic of Spin, 2016.
Hiett Prize in the Humanities, 2008.
Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, 2008.
Top Young Historian, History News Network, 2006.
American Journalism Historians Association Book Award, for Nixon's Shadow. 2003
Washington Monthly Political Book Award, for Nixon's Shadow. 2003.
Bancroft Dissertation Prize, Columbia University, for Nixon's Shadow. 2002.

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