Nina Berman

Biography

Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, journalist, and professor at Columbia University. She has written three books: Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq (Trolley Books, 2004); Homeland (Trolley Books, 2008); and An autobiography of Miss Wish (Kehrer Vlag, 2017). She is a 2025 Guggenheim fellow in photography and lives in New York City. 

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PORTFOLIOS / Spring 2025

In the Hallowed Place Where There’s Only Darkness

Photography by Nina Berman ,  Essay by Ellen Schrecker

For more than fifty years, I have been studying and writing about political repression and higher education, with a special emphasis on McCarthyism, long considered by historians to be the most serious assault on academic freedom since the...

Photo by Nina Berman