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Edward D. Berkowitz is a professor of history atGeorge Washington University.^[1]

A graduate ofPrinceton University, Berkowitz received his master's and doctoral degrees in American history fromNorthwestern University. His area of special expertise is the history ofSocial Security and related social policies.^[2]

Before moving to George Washington in 1982, he served as the first John F. Kennedy Fellow at theUniversity of Massachusetts Boston and as a senior staff member of the President'sCommission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.^[3]He has consulted on various aspects of social welfare policy with such organizations as theMilbank Memorial Fund,The Century Foundation, theCommittee for Economic Development, theHastings Center, and theHealth Insurance Association of America.^[4] He is the author of more than 70 articles on various aspects of social welfare policy.

He is the son of formerRutgers University professorMonroe Berkowitz (1919–2009).

• Making Social Welfare Policy in America: Three Case Studies since 1950, University of Chicago Press, 2020.ISBN 978-0-226-69206-7
• Review: Commissioning the Future, Getting the Present,Reviews in American History, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jun., 1983), pp. 294–299JSTOR 2702159
• Something Happened : A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies, Columbia University Press, 2006,ISBN 978-0-231-12494-2
• Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped, Cambridge University Press, 1989,ISBN 978-0-521-38930-3
• America's Welfare State: From Roosevelt to Reagan, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991,ISBN 978-0-8018-4128-6
• Mr. Social Security: The Life of Wilbur J. Cohen, University Press of Kansas, 1995,ISBN 978-0-7006-0707-5
• To Improve Human Health: A History of the Institute of Medicine, National Academies Press, 1998,ISBN 978-0-309-06188-9
• Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security, University of Wisconsin Press, 2005,ISBN 978-0-299-18954-9
• Creating the welfare state: the political economy of twentieth-century reform, Authors Edward D. Berkowitz, Kim McQuaid, University Press of Kansas, 1992,ISBN 9780700605286

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