Nina Berman
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Phone: 480-965-6281
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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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.
- 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
globalization studies; humanitarianism; tourism; German orientalism and colonialism; Germans in Africa; intercultural hermeneutics
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.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| SLC 792 | Research |
| SLC 795 | Continuing Registration |
| SLC 425 | Colonialism to Climate Change |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| CGF 425 | Colonialism to Climate Change |
| CGF 598 | Special Topics |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 792 | Research |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| GER 441 | Fairy Tales to Disney Movies |
| SLC 441 | Fairy Tales to Disney Movies |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 602 | Comparative Cultural Theory |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| SLC 792 | Research |
| SLC 795 | Continuing Registration |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| GER 441 | Fairy Tales |
| SLC 441 | Fairy Tales |
| SLC 425 | Colonialism to Climate Change |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| SLC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 792 | Research |
| SLC 795 | Continuing Registration |
| HUL 494 | Special Topics |
| POR 494 | Special Topics |
| SGS 494 | Special Topics |
| POS 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 494 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SLC 425 | Colonialism to Climate Change |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| SLC 795 | Continuing Registration |
| SLC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SLC 590 | Reading and Conference |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| SLC 795 | Continuing Registration |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SLC 690 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 799 | Dissertation |
| SLC 425 | What is Globalization? |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| SLC 792 | Research |
| SLC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SLC 795 | Continuing Registration |
2019 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SLC 690 | 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.