She is a Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and in the Department of History at Princeton University.
[2] She was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a resident scholar at Princeton University.
Her major works include Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2006) and Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s (2016).
[4] In 2012, she married fellow historian and political commentator Julian Zelizer at the Synagogue for the Arts in New York City presided over by the groom's father, Gerald.
[5] Her mother-in-law is economic sociologist, Viviana Rotman Zelizer.