Edward D. Berkowitz is a professor of history at

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Education

A graduate of

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, Berkowitz received his master's and doctoral degrees in American history from

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. His area of special expertise is the history of

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and related social policies.

Career

Before moving to George Washington in 1982, he served as the first John F. Kennedy Fellow at the

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and as a senior staff member of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties. He has consulted on various aspects of social welfare policy with such organizations as the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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. He is the author of more than 70 articles on various aspects of social welfare policy.

Family

He is the son of former

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professor Monroe Berkowitz (1919–2009).

Works

*
Making Social Welfare Policy in America: Three Case Studies since 1950
', University of Chicago Press, 2020. *''Review: Commissioning the Future, Getting the Present'', ''Reviews in American History'', Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jun., 1983), pp. 294–299
''Something Happened : A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies''
Columbia University Press, 2006,
''Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped''
Cambridge University Press, 1989, *''America's Welfare State: From Roosevelt to Reagan'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, *''Mr. Social Security: The Life of Wilbur J. Cohen'', University Press of Kansas, 1995,
''To Improve Human Health: A History of the Institute of Medicine''
National Academies Press, 1998,
''Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security''
University of Wisconsin Press, 2005, *''Creating the welfare state: the political economy of twentieth-century reform'', Authors Edward D. Berkowitz, Kim McQuaid, University Press of Kansas, 1992,

References

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