Nina Berman

Nina Berman is professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. Her research areas include globalization studies, humanitarianism, tourism, disability studies, German orientalism and colonialism, Germans in Africa, and intercultural hermeneutics. She joined ASU in 2016.

Professor Berman's has held previous teaching appointments at The Ohio State University (2001-2016), the University of Texas at Austin (1994-2001), and a guest professorship at Georg-August Universität, Göttingen (2014). 

She has written and co-edited six books and special issues, most recently Disability and Social Justice in Kenya: Scholars, Policymakers, and Activists in Conversation (co-edited with Rebecca Monteleone, University of Michigan Press, 2022) and Germans on the Kenyan Coast: Land, Charity, and Romance (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017), and published numerous book chapters, review articles, book reviews, and articles. She speaks German, Arabic, Kiswahili, and French.