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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 four books, 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.
globalization studies; humanitarianism; tourism; German orientalism and colonialism; Germans in Africa; intercultural hermeneutics
Selected publications
| 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 |
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.
German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences. Edited by Nina Berman, Klaus Mühlhahn, and Patrice Nganang (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014).
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.
