Christine Rosen

Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on American history, society and culture, technology and culture, and feminism. She is also a columnist for Commentary Magazine and one of the cohosts of The Commentary Magazine Podcast. She is a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a senior editor in an advisory position at New Atlantis.

Her previous positions include editor of In Character, managing editor of the Weekly Standard, and distinguished visiting scholar at the Library of Congress.

Dr. Rosen is the author or coauthor of many books and book chapters. Her books include The Extinction of Experience (W. W. Norton, forthcoming); Acculturated: 23 Savvy Writers Find Hidden Virtue in Reality TV, Chick Lit, Video Games, and Other Pillars of Pop Culture (Templeton Press, 2011) with Naomi Schaefer Riley; My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood (Public Affairs, 2005), which was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by the Washington Post; Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement (Oxford University Press, 2004); The Feminist Dilemma: When Success Is Not Enough (AEI Press, 2001); and Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America (AEI Press, 1999).

A prolific writer, Dr. Rosen is often published in the popular press. Her opinion pieces, articles, and reviews have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Commentary, the New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, National Affairs, National Review, the New Atlantis, the New Republic, the New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Politico, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner, the Washington Post, and the New England Journal of Medicine, among other outlets.

Dr. Rosen’s broadcast appearances include ABC News, BBC News, CBS News, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, NBC News, MSNBC, PBS News, and National Public Radio. She has testified before Congress and the US Secretary of Education’s Commission on Opportunity in Athletics.

Dr. Rosen has a PhD in history from Emory University, with a major in American intellectual history, and a BA in history from the University of South Florida.

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