Kathleen Stassen Berger Ph.D.

Kathleen Stassen Berger, Ph.D., is a professor at the City University of New York’s Bronx Community College. She is probably best known to college graduates as the author of the textbooks The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence as well as Invitation to the Life Span, which are used at more than 700 colleges and universities worldwide. Her research interests include adolescent identity, immigration, and bullying. She has published many articles on developmental topics in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Psychology and in publications of the American Association for Higher Education and the National Education Association for Higher education.

Her book, Grandmothering: Building Strong Ties with Every Generation is her first book for a general audience. She is a mother of four and grandmother of three.

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; serving as chair of philosophy at the United Nations International School; teaching child and adolescent development to graduate students at Fordham University and to undergraduates at Montclair (NJ) State University and Quinnipiac University, as well as teaching social psychology to inmates at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility.

Throughout most of her career, Berger has worked at City University of New York’s Bronx Community College, first as an adjunct and for the past two decades as a full professor. She has taught introduction to psychology, child and adolescent development, adulthood and aging, social psychology, abnormal psychology, and human motivation.