Initially he taught Government Studies at Cornell, and continued his research on modern Chinese history. He taught there for the rest of his career, retiring in 2001. There he resided in the Telluride House as a faculty fellow, and became a full professor in 1988. In 1972 Bernal moved to Cornell University in New York, United States. He carried on as a graduate student at Cambridge, and with the assistance of the Harkness Commonwealth Fellowship also at University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University, finishing his PhD in Cambridge in 1965 with thesis titled Chinese Socialism to 1913 when he was elected a fellow at King's. At that time he specialised in the language and history of China, and spent some time at the Peking University. He was educated at Dartington Hall School and then at King's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a degree in 1961 with first-class Honours in the Oriental Studies Tripos. He is best known for his work Black Athena, a controversial work which argues that the culture, language, and political structure of Ancient Greece contained substantial influences from Egypt and Syria-Palestine.īernal was born and grew up in Hampstead, London, the son of the physicist John Desmond Bernal and artists' patron Margaret Gardiner. He was a Professor of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. Was a British scholar of modern Chinese political history. Martin Gardiner Bernal ( / b ər ˈ n ɑː l/ 10 March 1937 – 9 June 2013 )
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