Russell Berman

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Russell A. Berman is an American professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature. He is the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the director of Stanford's Introduction to the Humanities program. He previously served as associate dean and director of Stanford's Overseas Studies Program.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Berman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1972 and completed a doctorate at Washington University in 1979. Since 1979, Berman has been on the faculty at Stanford University. In 2004, he became the editor of Telos, a quarterly journal of critical theory which has included extensive discussions of the Frankfurt School as well as Carl Schmitt. In 2011, he served as president of the Modern Language Association.

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May 14, 1950
United States of America

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Cognizant Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Stanford University
(1999 - 2001)
Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University
(1998 - )
Chair, Department of German Studies, Stanford Department of German Studies
(1994 - 2000)
Director, Overseas Studies Program, Bing Overseas Studies at Stanford University
(1992 - 2000)
Associate Dean, Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
(1992 - 1994)
Chair, Department of German Studies, Stanford Department of German Studies
(1991 - 1991)
Director, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
(1991 - 1991)
Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
(1990 - 1991)
Visiting Professor of German, Columbia University
(1989 - 1989)
Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
(1988 - 1988)

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on July 23, 2013

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