Russell A. Berman (born May 14, 1950)[1] is an American academic and professor specializing in German studies and Comparative literature.
He serves as the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.
He previously served as associate dean and director of Stanford's Overseas Studies Program.
In 2004, he became the editor of Telos, a quarterly journal of critical theory which has included extensive discussions of the Frankfurt School as well as Carl Schmitt.
[6] Together with his colleague David Tse-Chien Pan, he served on the U.S. State Department's Commission on Unalienable Rights convened by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and led by Harvard professor Mary Ann Glendon.