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Nina Berman
School Director & Professor
Faculty w/Admin Appointment, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 0202
Senior Sustainability Scholar
Faculty w/Admin Appointment, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 0202
Biography:
Nina Berman is the director of and a professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. Her research areas include globalization studies, humanitarianism, tourism, 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 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, French, and Kiswahili.
Education:
- Ph.D. Department of German, University of California-Berkeley 1994. Dissertation: Orientalismus, Kolonialismus und Moderne: Zum Bild des Orients in der deutschen Kultur um 1900. Committee: Anton Kaes (director), W. Daniel Wilson, David Lloyd. 1994
- M.A. Department of German, San Francisco State University 1989
- B.A. Zwischenprüfung in German, Arabic, and History, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany 1983
Research Website URL:
Research Interests:
globalization studies; humanitarianism; tourism; German orientalism and colonialism; Germans in Africa; intercultural hermeneutics
Publications:
Selected publications
- Nina Berman. Germans on the Kenyan Coast: Land, Charity, and Romance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=808322
- Nina Berman, Klaus Mühlhahn, and Patrice Nganang, editors. German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences. http://www.press.umich.edu/5034425/german_colonialism_revisited
- Nina Berman. German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989. http://www.press.umich.edu/2510033/german_literature_on_the_middle_east
- Philip Armstrong, Nina Berman, Kimani Njogu, Mbugua wa-Mungai, editors. Disability In Kenya: The Nairobi Workshop. http://dsq-sds.org/issue/view/42
- Nina Berman. Impossible Missions? German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa. http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Impossible-Missions,671137.aspx
- Nina Berman. Orientalismus, Kolonialismus und Moderne: Zum Bild des Orients in der deutschsprachigen Kultur um 1900. Dissertation defense 1994.
| Spring 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 425 | Colonialism to Climate Change |
| SLC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SLC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 795 | Continuing Registration |
| Fall 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| Summer 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 795 | Continuing Registration |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| Spring 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 425 | What is Globalization? |
| SLC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 792 | Research |
| SLC 795 | Continuing Registration |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| Fall 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 792 | Research |
| Summer 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| Spring 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 425 | What is Globalization? |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 792 | Research |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| Fall 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 792 | Research |
| Summer 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| Spring 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 593 | Applied Project |
| SLC 602 | Comparative Cultural Theory |
| SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| Fall 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 792 | Research |
| Spring 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| Fall 2016 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 551 | Global Approaches to Trans |
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
Honors / Awards:
Outstanding Academic Title 2012, Choice, for German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. 323 pp. Paperback 2013.
Educational Partnerships Program (Syria), US Department of State, 2006; Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2003 and 2004; President’s Associates Teaching Award, UT Austin, 1999; Dean’s Fellow, UT Austin, 1997: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Summer Research Grant, 1996.
Editorships:
German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences. Edited by Nina Berman, Klaus Mühlhahn, and Patrice Nganang (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014).
Professional Associations:
African Studies Association; German Studies Association
Work History:
PhD (University of California at Berkeley, 1994). Professor of International Letters and Cultures; School of International Letters and Cultures, Director, Arizona State University. Previous teaching appointment: Ohio State University, 2001-2016; University of Texas at Austin, 1994-2001. Guest professor: Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, June 2014.