Nathaniel Berndt

Bio

Nathaniel Berndt, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of the Department of History, earned his Ph.D. in History from Duke University.  Professor Berndt’s research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of Niger and the broader Sahel.  His current project, Descendants of Zabarkan, Citizens of the World: A History of Cosmopolitan Imagination in Decolonizing Niger, 1958-1974, is a comparative history of cosmopolitanism in the francophone, musical, and Islamic intellectual traditions of western Niger during the early years of independence.  His teaching assignments will include courses exploring the breadth of the history of Africa and the African diaspora as well as soundscapes of the human past.