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Mamadou Diouf (historian)

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Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, the Director of Institute for African Studies, and a professor of Western African history at Columbia University.[1]

Mamadou Diouf
Mamadou Diouf (2019)
Academic work
InstitutionsColumbia University
Opening of the ECAS Conference 2019, McEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh. On stage from the left Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University), Thomas Molony (University of Edinburgh), and Amanda Hammar (AEGIS president, Centre of African Studies, Copenhagen).

He also serves as director of the Institute of African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (SIPA) and has been instrumental in its recent reorganization. Diouf holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne.[1][2] Prior to teaching at Columbia, he taught at the University of Michigan and before that at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. Diouf also serves on the editorial board of several academic journals, including the Journal of African History, Psychopathologie Africaine, and Public Culture. His research interests include the urban, political, social, and intellectual history of colonial and postcolonial Africa.[1] His most recent books are La Construction de l’Etat au Sénégal, written with M. C. Diop & D. Cruise O’Brien and published in 2002 and Histoire du Sénégal: Le modèle islamo-wolof et ses périphéries, published in 2001.[1] He is currently editing Rhythms of the Atlantic World with Ifeoma Nwanko and New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power and Femininity with Mara Leichtman.

Publications edit

  • Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal, ed. 2013
  • with Mara A. Leichtman: New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal. Conversion, Migration, Wealth, and Power, 2009
  • with M. C. Diop & D. Cruise O’Brien: La Construction de l’Etat au Sénégal, 2002
  • Histoire du Sénégal: Le Modèle Islamo-Wolof et ses Périphéries, 2001
  • with Ulbe Bosma:Histoires et Identités dans la Caraïbe. Trajectoires Plurielles, 2004
  • with R. Collignon: Les Jeunes, Hantise de l’espace public dans les sociétés du sud?, 2001
  • with M. C. Diop: Les figures du politique : Des pouvoirs hérités aux pouvoirs élus, 1999
  • L'Historiographie indienne en débat. Sur le nationalisme, le colonialisme et les sociétés postcoloniales, ed. 1999
  • with Mahmood Mamdani: Academic Freedom and Social Responsibility of the Intellectuals in Africa, 1994
  • with M.C. Diop: Le Sénégal sous Abdou Diouf, 1990
  • La Kajoor au XIXe siècle : Pouvoir Ceddo et Conquête Coloniale, 1990

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Mamadou Diouf Leitner Professor of African Studies. Columbia Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS)". mesaas.columbia.edu. Columbia University. 28 September 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Public Culture, Duke University Press. Search for Diouf". Retrieved 12 August 2022.

External links edit

  • "Mamadou Diouf Leitner Professor of African Studies". sipa.columbia.edu. Columbia University. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  • "Member Profile, Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University". 2013. Archived from the original on 2010-06-22. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  • "Mamadou Diouf, West African Scholar, Selected to Lead Columbia's Institute for African Affairs. Bollinger hails Diouf's hiring as a critical step forward in University's work on Africa". www.columbia.edu. Columbia News. 7 December 2006. Archived from the original on 4 January 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2022.