Ivan T. Berend ima titulu istaknutog profesora istorije na Univerzitetu Kalifornija u Los Anđelesu. Njegove brojne publikacije uključuju The European Periphery and Industrialization 1780-1914 (zajedno sa Györgyom Ránkijem, 1982), Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World War II (1998), History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the ‘Long’ 19th Century (2003) i Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993: Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery (1996).
