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Bruce Berman
Professor Emeritus and Director of Ethnicity and Democratic Goverance, Queen's University.
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Dr. Berman [BA (Dartmouth); MA (LSE); M.Phil., Ph.D (Yale)], is a Professor Emeritus and Director of Ethnicity and Democratic Goverance at Queen's University, where he is also a founding member of the Research Group on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multicultural Citizenship (RGoNEMC).
After spending 1968-1969 at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Nairobi, and 1970 as an instructor at Yale, he was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's in 1971.
His major field of interest is in the political economy of development, with special reference to Africa.
He has conducted research in Kenya, Ghana and South Africa and during his years at Queen's has taught undergraduate courses in African politics, the politics of science and technology, and the graduate seminar in development theory.
He is currently teaching an undergraduate course in development theory and a new course in the development studies program on Technology and Development.
Professor Berman is widely acknowledged as one of Canada's leading experts on African politics - he served as president of the Canadian Association of African Studies in 1990-91 and Co-Chair of the national program committee for the 1994 annual meeting of the African Studies Association of the U.S.
In 2003 he was elected Vice President of the ASA and became President of the ASA in November 2004.
Professor Berman has published widely in the field of African politics, with two of his books winning prizes: Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya: the Dialectic of Domination (1990), which won the Joel Gregory Prize in 1991, and Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa (1992), which won the Trevor Reese Memorial Prize in 1994.
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Students whose doctoral theses have been supervised by Professor Berman are now in government service or teaching and researching in Canada, the West Indies, South Africa, Kenya and Rwanda.
In 2003, he was nominated for the Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Award offered by the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.
Books By Bruce Berman