David Berreby is the author of the book ''Us and Them: The Science of Identity'' (2008, University of Chicago Press). His work has appeared in

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Biography

Berreby is an 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

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. 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

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.

Works by Berreby

* Us and Them: The Science of Identity (University Of Chicago Press) * The Things That Divide Us (National Geographic Vol. 233 No. 4) * The Case for Fitting In * Bird's Life * The Punishment Fits the Crime * Ravens, Robots, and the Nature of Humanness * Genius in the Making:If a scientific theory about Jews being smart is so politically incorrect, why aren't more people complaining? * Human Kinds in the Brain: An MRI scan of racial perception * Can a language be "endangered"? * Human Kinds in the Making: Race and the Mind * Dear Colleague... * Murray Gell-Mann's Quest * Human Kinds in the Making: The Attention Deficit Tribe * The Obesity Era

References

External links

* * http://generalsemantics.org/misc/2008akmlsymposium/2008_program.pdf * https://www.amazon.com/Us-Them-Identity-David-Berreby/dp/0226044653 * http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-berreby/#blogger_bio {{DEFAULTSORT:Berreby, David 1958 births Living people 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers City University of New York staff Yale College alumni