Ronit Y. Stahl

Ronit Y. Stahl is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, holding the Gary and Donna Freedman Chair in Undergraduate Education. As a historian of modern America, she examines intersections of politics, law, and religion within military and healthcare contexts.

Her research centers on American societal pluralism, analyzing how institutional frameworks navigate religious diversity. Her book Enlisting Faith (2017) documents the military chaplaincy's century-long evolution in regulating religious expression amid racial segregation and wartime pressures. Current work investigates conscience rights in healthcare, dissecting legal, medical, and religious dynamics shaping disparities in reproductive care, LGBT services, and end-of-life treatment since the 1970s through intra-faith debates rather than simplistic secular-religious binaries.

Key research domains include American History, Religion and Politics, Law and Religion, Military History, Bioethics, Health Care Policy, and Religious Pluralism, emphasizing how power structures mediate faith in public institutions.