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Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He 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 in 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 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)—and in 2000 his Twilight of American Culture was named a "Notable Book" by the New York Times Book Review. His latest book, Dark Ages America (2006) has received excellent reviews. Dr. Berman has done numerous radio and television interviews in Europe, the United States, and Asia, and in recent years has lectured in Australia, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, and New Zealand. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Visiting Professor in Sociology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

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