Morris Berman

A cultural historian and social critic, Morris Berman has taught at a number of Universities in Europe and North America, and has held visiting endowed chairs at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio), the University of New Mexico, and Weber State University. Between 1982 and 1988 he was the Lansdowne Professor of the History of Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Berman won the Governor's Writers Award for Washington State in 1990, and was the first recipient of the annual Rollo May Center Grant for Humanistic Studies in 1992. He is the author of Social Change and Scientific Organization (1978), Dark Ages America (2006) and a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness—The Reenchantment of the World (1981), Coming to Our Senses (1989), and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (2000). His Twilight of American Culture (2000) was named a Notable Book by the New York Times Book Review. Berman has done numerous radio and television interviews in Europe, Asia, and North America, and in recent years has lectured in Australia, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, and New Zealand. Since 2003 he has been a Visiting Professor in Sociology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.