Name David Berreby Role Author | Education Yale University | |
Books Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind, Us and Them: The Science of Identity | ||
Us and them a story we can t help telling david berreby at tedxhendrixcollege
David Berreby is the author of the award-winning book Us and Them: The Science of Identity (2008, University of Chicago Press). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Nature, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Smithsonian, The Journal of Strategy and Business, The Huffington Post and many other publications.
Contents
- Us and them a story we can t help telling david berreby at tedxhendrixcollege
- DAVID BERREBY MATTER The Identity Issue Issue 4
- Biography
- Awards
- Works by David Berreby
- References
DAVID BERREBY: MATTER. The Identity Issue. Issue 4
Biography
David Berreby is an award winning independent science writer and researcher. He was born in France in 1958 to an American mother and Jewish father. His native language is English, although he briefly spoke French. He has spent most of his life in New York City, but attended a "chaotic and untraditional high school run by hippies and idealists" in California. He received his B.A. in English in 1981 from Yale University.
David has worked as an Editor for the City University of New York, Associate Editor for The Sciences at the New York Academy of Sciences, as well as a Freelancer for Discover Magazine. In 1995 David became Science Writing Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, The New Republic, Slate, Lingua Franca and many other publications.
Awards
David Berreby's book, Us and Them: The Science of Identity (under its previous name Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind) won the 2006 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the Media Ecology Association.