Mark Oppenheimer

Mark Oppenheimer holds a PhD in religious studies from Yale, and has taught at Stanford, Wesleyan, Wellesley, NYU, Boston College, and Yale, where he was the founding director of the Yale Journalism Initiative. From 2010 to 2016, he wrote the ‘Belefs’ column for The New York Times, and has written for The New Yorker, The Nation, GQ, Slate, and many more. He is the author of five books, most recently, Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, four daughters, one son, dog, and (alas) cat.