Latif Nasser
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Latif Nasser | |
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 Latif Nasser at TED 2025 | |
| Born | July 20, 1985 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
| Spouse | Carly Mensch |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University Dartmouth College Pearson College UWC |
| Thesis | Spasms of the Soul: The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic in the Age of Independence. (2014) |
| Website | www |
Latif Abdul Nasser (/ˈlɑːtɪf/ LAH-tif; born July 20, 1985)[1] is a Canadian-American researcher, writer and presenter. He is the Director of Research and co-host at Radiolab and host of the Netflix show Connected.
Nasser was born to an Indian-Tanzanian Muslim family and grew up in Mississauga, Ontario.[2][3] He attended Pearson College UWC.[3] Nasser earned his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College. He served as President of the Displaced Theatre Company and spent most of his time in the Hopkins Center for the Arts.[4] While at Dartmouth he studied the history of physics with Richard Kremer and Marcelo Gleiser. As part of the class he was involved in a production of Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo. When trying to find props for the production, he found himself in the scientific instrument collection of Dartmouth, unearthing historic artefacts and researching their origins.[4] Nasser was selected by his classmates to be the orator at the 2008 Class Day.[3] He studied in Fez, Morocco for a study program with Dartmouth.[5]
Nasser received a PhD from the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in 2014. His dissertation was on the Tanganyika laughter epidemic.[6][7]
