David M. Oshinsky (born 1944) is an American historian, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine,[1] and a professor in the Department of History at New York University.

Oshinsky won the annual Pulitzer Prize in History for his 2005 book, Polio: An American Story.

[3] Oshinsky’s most recent book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital, was published in 2016.

Hardeman Prize-winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice.

His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.