Professor Greenberg taught at Trinity for most of her career, with a few brief stints elsewhere (University of Helsinki, Finland; Columbia University; Harvard University; Nankai University, China). She taught courses in African American history and the history of race in the U.S., as well as courses on many social and cultural history topics including crime, protest movements, Star Trek, and American society during and after the Cold War. Professor Greenberg's research interests have been equally varied, ranging from African American communities during the Great Depression to grass-roots organizing in the Civil Rights movement, and from postwar liberalism to Black-Jewish relations. Her most recent book, a history and community memoir of civil rights organizing in Marks, Mississippi, co-authored with a COFO activist who worked there, was published in January of 2023. Her current projects include a history of civil rights organizations' views about "hate speech" legislation, and work on race and mass incarceration.

• Greenberg, Cheryl and Joe Bateman, A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi. University of Georgia Press, 2023.
• Greenberg, Cheryl. To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression. Rowman and Littlefield, 2009.
• Greenberg, Cheryl. Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century. Princeton University Press, 2006.
  
• Greenberg, Cheryl, ed. A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC. Rutgers University Press, 1998.
  
• Greenberg, Cheryl. “Or Does It Explode?” Black Harlem in the Great Depression. Oxford University Press, 1991.
• For a list of articles and other published writing, see c.v., attached.

• Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Teaching Excellence, 2020
• Docent (Permanent Affiliated Faculty), University of Helsinki, Finland, appointed 2011
• Fellow (non-resident), Fred Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, University of Seattle School of Law, 2010-13
• Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, Institute of American History and Culture, Nankai University, Tianjin, P.R. China, 2010-2011
• Trustee Award for Faculty Excellence, 2007
• Saul Viener Prize for best book in American Jewish History, 2006-2007
• Fulbright Distinguished Chair: Bicentennial Chair in American Studies, Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki, 2002-2003
• Fellow, W.E.B. DuBois Center for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, 1996-1997
• Fellow, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, 1993-1994
• (various research grants)