Larry Berman was appointed as the founding Director of the University of California Washington Center (http: //viww.ucdc.edu) in September 1999. Berman is the author or coauthor of nine books and numerous articles. In addition, he has appeared on a number of broadcasts, including Bill Moyers's Public Broadcasting System series, "The Public Mind."
Among other honors, Berman has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Council for Learned Societies. Berman has received the 1996 Outstanding Mentor of Women in Political Science Award from the Women's Caucus for Political Science. He received the 1994 Bernath Lecture Prize, given annually by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations to a scholar whose work has most contributed to our understanding of foreign relations. He is a co-recipient and collaborator in the 1990 Richard E. Newstadt Award, given annually for the best book published during the year in the field of the American presidency.
His class on the American presidency is cited in Lisa Birnbach's New and Improved College Guide as one of the most recommended classes for undergraduates at UC Davis. Berman has often conducted a series of live, interactive television programs from Washington with his undergraduate classes at UC Davis on the American presidency and American government. The programs are available from PBS Adult Learning.
In addition to his work in political science, Berman is an authority on integrating and reengineering liberalarts education with technology. He regularly presents seminars and workshops on the subject to educators across the United States and has lectured in Australia, China, Germany, Israel, and The Netherlands on American politics, foreign policy, and multimedia technology in the classroom.
An expert in American government, the presidency, and the Vietnam War, Berman's books include Approaching Democracy, The New American Presidency, Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam, and Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam. He also coedited Foreign Military Intervention: The Dynamics of Protracted Conflict.
Bruce Allen Murphy is a nationally recognized scholar on the American Supreme Court, civil rights and liberties, judicial behavior, and judicial biography. He is currently the Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights in the Department of Government and Law at Lafayette College.
Murphy is the author of many publications, including the best-selling The Brandeis-Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court justices, which received the American Bar Association's Certificate of Merit, was listed among The New York Times "Best Books for 1983, " and was serialized by The Washington Post. He also wrote Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice, which was nominated for both the Pulitzer, Prize and the National Book Award, and he edited Portraits of American Politics. A Reader. He is currently completing a major biography of justice William O. Douglas.
Murphy has received numerous teaching awards for his courses in Constitutional Law and American Politics. He has been a finalist in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education's national Professor of the Year competition and was cited as a Best Professor in Lisa Birnbach's New and Improved College Guide.
