Professor - Department Chair
Office Location: WT 409
Phone Number: (262) 472-1407
Email Address: bergerr@uww.edu

Ronald J. Berger (Ph.D., UCLA) is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at UWW. He teaches courses in criminology, white-collar crime, Holocaust studies, and disability studies, which are also the areas of his current research.

Dr. Berger has published some forty articles and book chapters, which have appeared in Criminal Justice Review, Gender and Society, Humanity and Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Law and Society Review, Perspectives on Social Problems, Qualitative Inquiry, Social Science Quarterly, Sociological Focus, and Sociological Quarterly, among other professional venues. He also has published eleven books, including Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball (with Melvin Juette); Storytelling Sociology: Narrative as Social Inquiry (with Richard Quinney); Crime, Justice, and Society: An Introduction to Criminology (with Marvin Free & Patricia Searles); Fathoming the Holocaust: A Social Problems Approach; Constructing a Collective Memory of the Holocaust: A Life History of Two Brothers' Survival; The Sociology of Juvenile Delinquency; Rape and Society: Readings on the Problem of Sexual Assault (with Patricia Searles); and Feminism and Pornography (with Patricia Searles & Charles Cottle).

Dr. Berger has received UWW's highest awards for both teaching and research, as well as the Chancellor's Award for service to students with disabilities and the Wisconsin Sociological Association's William H. Sewell Outstanding Scholarship Award. He is a former editor of Sociological Imagination, the journal of the Wisconsin Sociological Association, and currently serves as the consulting editor of the Disability in Society book series for Lynne Rienner Publishers.