Dr. Gerald M. Berg Professor of History Department of History Sweet Briar College Sweet Briar, VA 24595 434-381-6212 gberg@sbc.edu
Education B.A. History, University of California at Berkeley, 1969 University of Warwick, U.K., School of History, 1967-68 Ph.D. History, University of California at Berkeley, 1975
Teaching and Research Interests Precolonial Africa Modern Israel European Military History of Ideology Historiography
Honors and Awards Sweet Briar Student Government Association Excellence in Teaching Award, 1991-1992. Fulbright Fellowship for Scholars, Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1989-90. National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 1982-1983. National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend for individual research, 1979, 1980. Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israel Studies, June 2005.
Selected Publications "Zionist Women of the 1920s: The Voice of Nation Building", Journal of Israeli History, 25/2(2006), 313-333. "Zionism's Gender: Hannah Meisel and the Founding of the Agricultural School for Young Women", Israel Studies, 6/3 (Fall 2001), 135-165; reprinted in Andrea M. Lauritsch, ed., Zions Töhter. Jüdische Frauen in Religion, Kultur und Politik, LIT-Verlag: Münster- Berlin- Vien, 2005. "Radama's Smile: Domestic Challenges to Royal Ideology in Early Nineteenth-Century Imerina", History in Africa, XXV (1998), 69-92. "Virtù and Fortuna in Radama's Nascent Bureaucracy, 1816-1828," History in Africa, XXIII (1996), 29-74. "Sacred Acquisition: Andrianampoinimerina at Ambohimanga," Journal of African History XXIX (1988), 191-211. "The Sacred Musket. Tactics, Technology, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Madagascar," Comparative Studies in Society and History, XXVII/2 (1985), 261-279

 

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