Dr. Jerry Bergman
Biographical Sketch
Dated: March 29, 1994.
Jerry Bergman, Ph. D., Montpelier, Ohio
Dr. Jerry Bergman holds six college degrees, including two master's (one in counseling and the other in social psychology) a Ph. D. from Wayne State University in Detroit (major course work was psychology and research methodology and measurement), a Ph. D. in human biology and he has completed most of the course work for a third Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His over twenty years of college teaching experience, at both the graduate and undergraduate level, is primarily in the behavioral and natural sciences. Dr. Bergman was on both the undergraduate and graduate faculty at Bowling Green State University for seven years. He was also an Associate Professor of Psychology at Spring Arbor College in Spring Arbor, Michigan, and has taught both graduate and undergraduate classes at the University of Toledo for six years. He currently teaches psychology, sociology, physics and chemistry at Northwest State Community College in Ohio.
He has authored or co-authored over forty books, monographs and book chapters, has published over 400 articles in professional journals and popular publications, and his work has been published in six languages (German, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish and Swedish). Among his books is a monograph on peer evaluation published by the College Student Journal Press, a Fastback on the creation-evolution controversy published by Phi Delta Kappa, a book on vestigial organs with Dr. George Howe, a book on psychology and religious cults, and a book on religious discrimination published by Onesimus Press, and a book on mental health published by Claudius Verlag in München. He has also published a college textbook on evaluation (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.), and has contributed to dozens of other textbooks.
Dr. Bergman has presented over one hundred scientific papers at professional and community meetings in the United States, Canada and Europe. To discuss his research, he has been a featured speaker on many college campuses throughout the United States and Europe, and is a frequent guest on radio and television programs. His research has made the front page in newspapers throughout the country, has been featured by the Paul Harvey Show several times, and has been discussed by David Brinkley and other nationally known commentators on national television.
His other work experience includes over ten year's experience at various Mental Health/Psychology clinics as a licensed professional clinical counselor and three years full time corrections research for a large county circuit court in Michigan and inside the walls of Jackson Prison (SPSM), the largest walled prison in the world. He has also served as a consultant for CBS News, ABC News, Reader's Digest, Amnesty International, several government agencies and for two Nobel Prize winners, including the inventor of the transistor. In the past decade he has consulted or has testified as an expert witness or consultant in almost one-hundred court cases. A Fellow of the American Scientific Association, member of The National Association for the Advancement of Science, and many other professional associations, he is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the Midwest and in Who's Who in Science and Religion. A resident of Montpelier, Ohio since 1986, he resides there with his wife, Dianne, his two children, Aeron and Mishalea, and two stepchildren, Christine and Scott.
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