Greenberg has taught courses in African American history; race and ethnicity in the U.S; 20th-Century U.S. history; and civil rights at Trinity for twenty years and was promoted to full professor in 2000. She received an A.B from Princeton University, summa cum laude, and a Ph.D in history from Columbia University. An expert on African American history and race relations, she has published Or Does It Explode? Black Harlem in the Great Depression, Oxford University Press, 1991; edited A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC, Rutgers University Press, 1998, and, in 2006 published Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century, with Princeton University Press. She is now at work on a study of African Americans in the Great Depression, which is under contract at Rowman and Littlefield. Future projects include a project on intermarriage and group identity among Jewish Americans, African Americans, and Japanese Americans.

Extremely active in historical circles, Greenberg has received some of the highest awards in her profession: a Danforth Fellowship; an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D.; a fellowship at the Charles Warren Center for American History at Harvard University; a fellowship at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University; and a Bicentennial Fulbright Distinguished Chair of American Studies at the University of Helsinki, in Finland. At Trinity, she has consistently engaged with the life of the College, serving as director of the American Studies Program, and most recently as secretary of the faculty. In the city of Hartford and the state of Connecticut, Greenberg’s many projects include providing diversity training for teachers, civic groups, and colleges; serving as a housing discrimination tester for the Connecticut Fair Housing Center and as vice chair of the West Hartford Initiative on Racial and Ethnic Diversity.

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