Martin Bernal
- Professor Emeritus
- Joint appointment, Department of Government
- Ancient Eastern Mediterranean history
Martin Bernal retired from the Department
of Near Eastern Studies in 2001. He is the author of Black
Athena: the Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (Rutgers
University Press, 1987), which occasioned Black
Athena: Ten Years After, ed. Wim M.J. van Binsbergen (Dutch
Archaeological and Historical Society, 1997) and Black
Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to his Critics, ed.
David Chioni Moore (Duke University Press, 2001).
