Kathleen Stassen Berger received her undergraduate education at Stanford University and Radcliffe College, earned an M.A.T. from Harvard University and an M.S. and Ph.D from Yeshiva University. Her broad experience as an educator includes directing a preschool, teaching philosophy and humanities at the United Nations International School, teaching child and adolescent development to graduate students at Fordham University, and teaching social psychology to inmates earning a paralegal degree at Sing Sing Prison.
For the past 30 years Berger has taught at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, recently as the elected chair of the Social Science Department. She has taught introduction to psychology, child and adolescent development, adulthood and aging, social psychology, abnormal psychology, and human motivation. Her students—who come from many ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds and who have a wide range of interests—consistently honor her with the highest teaching evaluations. Her own four children attended New York City public schools, one reason that she was elected as president of the Community School Board in District Two.
Berger is also the author of The Developing Person Through the Life Span and The Developing Person Through Childhood. Her three developmental texts are currently being used at nearly 700 colleges and universities worldwide. Her research interests include adolescent identity, sibling relationships, and bullying, and she has contributed articles on developmental topics to the Wiley Encyclopedia of Psychology. Berger’s interest in college education is manifest in articles published in 2002 by the American Association for Higher Education and the National Education Association for Higher Education. She continues to teach and learn with every semester and every edition of her books.
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