Bio
Dr. Marc Dollinger holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University.
Professor Dollinger is author of four scholarly books in American Jewish history, most recently Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing The Alliance in the 1960s. He has published entries in the Encyclopedia Judaica, the Encyclopedia of Antisemitism, and the Encyclopedia of African American Education. His next project, an academic memoir titled Laundering Antisemitism: Identity Politics, Ethnic Studies, and the University traces his experiences as an identified Jewish (and Zionist) professor in the current political climate.
Dr. Dollinger currently serves on the executive board of the Union for Reform Judaism. He is also board president of URJ Camp Newman. Professor Dollinger is a past president of both the Jewish Community High School of the Bay and Brandeis Hillel Day School. He also currently serves on the board of the American Jewish Historical Society, where he chairs the academic council.
Professor Dollinger has spoken about his research with the CEO of the NAACP on CNN as well as the CNN-podcast “Silence Is Not An Option,” the NFL Network, ESPN, and Germany’s National Public Radio. Just for fun, Dr. Dollinger helped actress Helen Hunt learn about her Jewish roots on the prime-time NBC show, “Who Do You Think You Are?”
Publications
- Laundering Antisemitism: Identity Politics, Ethnic Studies, and the University, forthcoming.
- Black Power/Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition, New York University Press, 2024.
- Black Power/Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Brandeis University Press, 2018.
- American Jewish History: A Documents Reader, co-editor with Gary Zola, Brandeis University Press, 2014.
- California Jews, co-editor with Ava Kahn, Brandeis University Press, 2003.
- Quest For Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America, Princeton University Press, 2000.