Sheri Berman

Sheri Berman

Sheri Berman is a Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research interests include European history and politics, the development of democracy and dictatorship, populism and fascism, and the history of the left.12

Education

• BA in political science from Yale University (magna cum laude; Distinction in the Major)
• MA and PhD in government from Harvard University2

Career

• Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University12
• Previously Associate Professor at Barnard College (2006-2011) and Visiting Associate Professor (2004-2005)4
• Former Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University4
• Served as Chair of the Barnard political science department from 2009 to 2012, and then again in fall 20211
• Chaired the Council on European Studies from 2014 to 20171
• Currently serves on the boards of the Journal of Democracy, Political Science Quarterly, Dissent and Persuasion1

Publications

Berman is the author of several scholarly books and articles, including:

• The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe (Harvard University Press, 1998)1
• The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Ideological Dynamics of the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2006)1
• Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe from the Ancien Régime to the Present Day (Oxford University Press, 2019)12

She has also published in a wide variety of non-scholarly publications, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, VOX, and Dissent.13

In 2008, Berman was awarded an honorary doctorate by Uppsala University, Sweden.1