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.
globalization studies; humanitarianism; tourism; German orientalism and colonialism; Germans in Africa; intercultural hermeneutics
Selected publications
Spring 2022 | |
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SLC 494 | Special Topics |
SGS 494 | Special Topics |
POS 494 | Special Topics |
POR 494 | Special Topics |
HUL 494 | Special Topics |
SLC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SLC 590 | Reading and Conference |
SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
SLC 792 | Research |
SLC 795 | Continuing Registration |
SLC 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2021 | |
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SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
SLC 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2021 | |
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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 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
SLC 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2020 | |
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SLC 795 | Continuing Registration |
SLC 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2020 | |
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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 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
SLC 792 | Research |
Summer 2019 | |
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SLC 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2019 | |
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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 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
SLC 792 | Research |
Summer 2018 | |
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SLC 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2018 | |
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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 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
SLC 792 | Research |
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).
African Studies Association; German Studies Association
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.