Marvin W. Berkowitz, PhD, is the inaugural Sanford N. McDonnell Endowed Professor of Character Education and codirector of the center for Character and Citizenship at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Before arriving at UMSL, he was the inaugural Ambassador Holland H. Coors Professor of Character Development at the United States Air Force Academy (1999), and professor of Psychology (1979-1999) and director of the Center for Ethics Studies at Marquette University. He earned his PhD in Life-span Developmental Psychology at Wayne State University in 1977, after which he served as a research associate at the Center for Moral Development at Harvard University. He has taught throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, serving as Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin (1987-8), Visiting Scholar for the Gordon Cook Foundation in Scotland (1995), Ethicist in Residence at the University of South Florida (2002), and Visiting Scholar at Azusa Pacific University (2001-2).

His research interests are character education, moral development, adolescent development, and risk-taking. He is editor of Moral Education: Theory and Application (1985) and Peer Conflict and Psychological Growth (1985), and author of more than 100 book chapters, monographs, and journal articles. He serves as a board member of the Character Education Partnership and the Center for Social and Emotional Education, and as co-editor of the Journal for Research in Character Education. He was awarded the Character Education Partnership's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.

 

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