Justin Berg

Biography

Dr. Justin Allen Berg is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Dakota, where he teaches several courses, including statistics, research methods, and sociology capstone. After 15 years at UND, he has taught over 3,000 students and spent five years serving as the faculty advisor for the UND chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta, which is the discipline of sociology's honor society. He has also served on numerous university committees and in the university senate. He recently finished a six-year tenure in UND's Division of Research & Economic Development as a faculty fellow, where he helped research faculty apply for internal and external funding. In support of his own research, he has been awarded internal funding, such as the Joyce and Aqueil Ahmad Endowment Award through the College of Arts & Sciences, and external funding, specifically the National Science Foundation's ADVANCE Catalyst award, for which he led a team of scholars in identifying inequity among STEM faculty and proposing a five-year strategic equity plan. Over the next five years, he plans to expand his research on intergroup contact to identify the positive social conditions that generate pro-social interaction and to ride his bike more.