Stephen Sonnenberg has served as clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Howard University College of Medicine, adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College, clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine and clinical professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. He is currently adjunct professor of psychiatry at The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, where he served as clinical professor before moving to Texas.
At The University of Texas at Austin, he is professor of psychiatry, population health, and medical education at Dell Medical School, adjunct professor in the School of Architecture, Fellow of the Trice Professorship in the Plan II Honors Program, and principal investigator of the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Patients, Practitioners, and Cultures of Care Project, a research and development effort to create a new undergraduate Bridging Disciplines Program emphasizing the relationship of health care and the humanities. His most important committee assignments at UT Austin include the Rhodes, Marshall and Truman Scholarships Selection Committee and the chairmanship of the Hamilton Book Awards Selection Committee in 2017.