Bernard Mergen

Bernard Mergen is Professor of American Studies Emeritus at George Washington University. He has held Fulbright teaching positions at Gothenburg University in Sweden, at the Free University of Berlin in Germany, and at the National University of Mongolia, and has lectured in more than a dozen other countries. From 1980 to 2004 Bernard Mergen was Senior Editor of American Studies International. In addition to Weather Matters and Snow in America, he is the author of more than one hundred articles and reviews on American labor and environmental history, the history of childhood and play, and the history of American Studies. He is currently writing a history of Pyramid Lake Nevada.