Sheri E. Berman
Associate Professor and Department Chair
 
Comparative Politics and Foreign Government

Address
411 Lehman Hall, Barnard College, Columbia University
3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6598
Tel: (212) 854-2158, Fax: (212) 854-3024, E-mail: sberman@barnard.edu

Schedule:   Fall   Spring

Web Site:   http://bc.barnard.edu/~sberman/

Courses

POLS V 3401	Democracy & Dictatorship in Europe (Enrollment limited to 40 students.)
POLS BC 3505	Colloquium on Making Democracy Work (Enrollment limited to 16 students.)
POLS BC 3761-2	Senior Research Seminar in Comparatve Politics
POLS W 4414y	Making Democracy Work (Enrollment limited to 30 students.)
POLS G 8431	European Domestic Political Development (CU graduate course)
POLS G 8493	Political Development (CU graduate course)

Course Evaluations     On-line, in PDF

Areas of Specialization
Comparative Political Development
European Politics and History
Globalization
Social Theory
History of the Left
Qualitative Methods

Recent Awards
Honorary Doctorate, Uppsala University, January 2008.

Previous Academic Positions
Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University, Fall 2003.
Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, New York University, 2003-2004.
Senior Visiting Fellow, Remarque Institute, NYU, Fall 2002.
Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University, 1995-2002.
Assistant Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University, 1994-1995.

Education

Ph.D.   M.A. B.A.

June 1994   June 1990 May 1987

Harvard University, Government Harvard University, Government Yale University, Political Science (Magna cum laude; Distinction in the Major)

Books  

• The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
   
  
• The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).

Published Academic Articles

• "Violence, Conflict and Civil Society," Mittelweg, Spring 2006.
• "Islamism, Revolution and Civil Society," Perspectives on Politics, 1, 2, June 2003. Reprinted in Bernard Brown and Roy Marcridis, eds., Comparative Politics: Notes and Readings (NY: Harcourt, Brace, 2005).
• "The Hidden History of Social Democracy," Social Philosophy & Policy, 20, 1, 2003. Reprinted in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Miller, and Jeffrey Paul, eds., After Socialism (NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• "Modernization in Historical Perspective: The Case of Imperial Germany," World Politics, 53, 3, April 2001.
• "Ideas, Norms, and Culture in Political Analysis," Comparative Politics, 33, 2, January 2001.
• "Path Dependency and Political Action: Re-examining Responses to the Depression," Comparative Politics, 30, 4, July 1998.
• "The Life of the Party," Comparative Politics, 30, 1, October 1997.
• "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic," World Politics, 49, 3, April 1997. Reprinted in Patrick O'Neill and Ronald Rogowski, eds., Essential Readings in Comparative Politics (NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004).
• "Civil Society and Political Institutionalization," American Behavioral Scientist, 40, 5, March/April 1997. Another version of which is reprinted in Michael Foley and Bob Edwards, eds., Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative Perspective (Boston: University Press Of New England, 2001).

Curriculum vita:   on-line [in PDF]
 

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