Professor

Suzanne Berger

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Political scientist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Political Science
Elected
1978
Suzanne Berger is John M. Deutch Institute Professor, MIT. Her current research focuses on politics and globalization. She is a member of the MIT Taskforce on Work of the Future and conducting research on manufacturing. She recently co-chaired the MIT Production in the Innovation Economy project, and in September 2013 published Making in America: From Innovation to Market. She created the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative, and participated in the 1989 Made in America project at MIT. She wrote Made By Hong Kong and Global Taiwan (with Richard K. Lester). She is the author of Notre Première Mondialisation and How We Compete. Her earlier work focused on political development (Peasants Against Politics) and the organization of interests (Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrial Societies and Organizing Interests in Western Europe.)

Suzanne Berger served as Head of the MIT Department of Political Science, founding chair of the SSRC Committee on West Europe, and Vice President of the American Political Science Association. The French government has awarded her the Palmes Academiques, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite and the Légion d'Honneur.

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