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Gertrude Himmelfarb (born August 8, 1922) is an American historian known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era, particularly of Social Darwinism; and as a conservative cultural critic. She is also known as an outspoken commentator of university education. She received the National Humanities Medal in 2004. She was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, and was educated at New Utrecht High School and Brooklyn College. Her doctoral work was at the University of Chicago. She is now Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She married Irving Kristol in 1942, but has always written as an academic under her maiden name. Their son, William Kristol, is the editor of the Weekly Standard and chairman of the American neo-conservative think tank Project for the New American Century, or PNAC. She is also sister to the late Milton Himmelfarb of the American Jewish Committee.
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