Sarah B. K. Greenberg

Sarah B. K. Greenberg is a Lecturer on Social Studies. Her first book project critiques the 'Western' political theory canon's marginalization of Jewish political thought by emphasizing "covenantal authority" as a non-sovereign, circulating form of authority in direct contrast to the social contract model. Sarah's research agenda centers around Jewish political thought and contestations over authority between religious and political life; she is especially interested in the theoretical and practical overlaps between political theology and the Jewish question, and the way the US legal apparatus deals with belief, practice, and conscience. At Harvard, Sarah teaches Social Studies 10, a junior tutorial called Religion in Politics, and Social Studies 60, research methods for concentrators interested in political theory and intellectual history. 

Prior to graduate school, Sarah worked as a policy advocate in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in church-state law. Sarah received her B.A. magna cum laude in Government and French from Cornell University in 2013 and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. In 2022-2023, Sarah held a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship for her scholarship on Jewish political thought. And, in 2024, Sarah earned her Ph.D. in Government (Political Thought) from Cornell. Born and raised in New York City, Sarah has lived in Tokyo, Japan and spent a year at Sciences Po in Paris, France.