Christine Rosen

Christine Rosen
Rosen in 2013
Born	Christine Stolba 1973 (age 51–52)
Education	University of South Florida (BA) Emory University (PhD)
Occupations	Historian writer
Spouse	Jeffrey Rosen (m. 2003, div.)

Christine Rosen (born 1973) is an American historian and author. ^[1] She is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, and a columnist and podcaster for Commentary .

Early life and education

Born Christine Stolba, she was raised in a fundamentalist Christian family, which she later discussed in her 2005 memoir, My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Rosen attended college at the University of South Florida, where she graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in 1993. She then received a Ph.D. in history from Emory University in 1999. ^{[1] [5]}

Career

She collaborated with Diana Furchtgott-Roth on two books, Women's Figures: an illustrated guide to the economic progress of women in America (1999) and The Feminist Dilemma: when success is not enough (2001).

From 1999 to 2002, she worked at the Independent Women's Forum. While there, she published a short study Lying in a Room of One's Own: how women's studies textbooks miseducate students in 2002.

Her book Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement was published in 2004.

Rosen's book The Extinction of Experience was published in the United States in 2024 ^[6] and in the United Kingdom in 2025. ^{[7] [8]}

Personal life

In 2003, she married law professor and author Jeffrey Rosen. The ceremony was performed by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ^[5] The couple later divorced. ^[9]

Books

• Furchtgott-Roth, Diana; Stolba, Christine (1999). Women's figures: an illustrated guide to the economic progress of women in America. Washington, DC: AEI Press. ISBN   978-0844741147.
• Furchtgott-Roth, Diana; ——— (2001). The feminist dilemma: when success is not enough. Washington, D.C: AEI Press. ISBN   978-0844741291.
• ——— (2002). Lying in a room of one's own: how women's studies textbooks miseducate students. Arlington, VA: Independent Women's Forum. OCLC   49845318.
• Rosen, Christine (2004). Preaching eugenics: religious leaders and the American eugenics movement. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195156799.
• ——— (2005). My fundamentalist education: a memoir of a divine girlhood (1st ed.). New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN   978-1586482589.
• Riley, Naomi Schaefer; ———, eds. (2011). Acculturated. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press. ISBN   9781283260657.
• ——— (2024). The extinction of experience: being human in a disembodied world (First ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN   9780393241716.
• ——— (2025). The extinction of experience: reclaiming our humanity in a digital world. London: The Bodley Head. ISBN   9781847922083.

References

1. "Christine Rosen 1973–". Contemporary Authors. Cengage. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
2. Allen, Charlotte (April 10, 2006). "God in the Details". Washington Examiner. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
3. Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca (January 3, 2006). "Reformed school girl". Salon. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
4. Cohen, Leah Hager (February 5, 2006). "Faith Based". New York Times . Retrieved July 30, 2025.
5. "WEDDING/CELEBRATIONS; Christine Stolba, Jeffrey Rosen". New York Times . March 9, 2003. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
6. "The Extinction of Experience". Kirkus. July 15, 2024.
7. Poole, Steven (January 8, 2025). "The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen review – smartphone nation". The Guardian. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
8. Franzini, Sam (December 4, 2024). "Christine Rosen's The Extinction of Experience". Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
9. "Lauren Coyle, Jeffrey Rosen". New York Times . October 22, 2017. p. ST-15. Retrieved July 30, 2025. The groom's previous marriage ended in divorce.