Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County and Consulting Curator of The Jewish Museum in New York; b. May 22, 1956; "Berger engages the issues of racism, whiteness, and contemporary race relations and their connection to visual culture in the United States. He is one of the first art historians to meld the methodologies and practices of cultural and art history with those of race studies and critical race theory, work begun by Berger in the mid-1980s as an assistant professor of art and gallery director at Hunter College. ..."; HEADING: Berger, Maurice, 1956-