Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study.
At the University of Chicago, Nirenberg served as Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences; Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, History, Divinity, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College; Executive Vice Provost; and Interim Dean of the Divinity School.
A historian and author, Nirenberg is recognized for wide-ranging scholarship on the interaction of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. His research provides timely insight into questions of racism, Anti-Semitism, and Christian-Muslim relations.
