Dr. Berman has worked on a number of international and domestic research projects as well as an assistant professor of international relations. Her experience includes qualitative and quantitative research design and implementation, program development and management, monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, and project management. Her areas of interest and expertise include international affairs, feminist theory, globalization, transnationalism, democratization, privatization, global gender issues, human rights, international development, and human and international security. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University, a Ph.D. in International Relations from Arizona State University, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the International Research and Exchanges Commission, and the U.S. Department of Education Fulbright program.

Selected Current BPA and Academic Research Projects:

• California Forward Good Governance Study
• SOURCE Pilot Project for High School to College Transitions for Low-Income Youth
• Packard Foundation Children's Health Study
• Project Director, California Welfare Time Limits Study
• Comprehensive Evaluation of Louisiana Family Recovery Corps (LFRC) Services
• Care Not Cash Homeless Caseload Decline Study
• Evaluation of State of Louisiana's STEP Program
• State of Louisiana TANF Initiative's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
• Women in Migration and Vulnerability for Trafficking in Human Beings, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Facing Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique, CUNY Graduate Center and the National Council for Research on Women, New York, NY.

• Assistant Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, New Orleans.
• Rockefeller Foundation Fellow for Human Security, CSWS, CUNY Graduate Center and the National Council for Research on Women, New York, NY.
• Executive Consultant, La Strada Foundation Against Trafficking in Women, Warsaw, Poland.
• SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellow for International Peace and Security, Columbia University, New York, NY and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.