Associate Professor of History and Global & International Studies
Biography
Courses Taught
HIST 231: The Making of Africa
HIST 232: Africa from Colonization to Globalization
HIST 301: Islam and Societies in Africa
HIST 201: History of the African and African American Connections
HIST 101: West Africa and the World
HIST 101: History of Islam
FYSM 101: Africa and COVID-19
FYSM 101: Being Young and African in the 21st Century
FYSM 101: The Youth in Recent African History Through Film and Literature
Selected Publications & Presentations
“Slavery, History, and Memory: A Report on the African Burial Ground in New York City”, PHARE: Patrimoine & Histoire en Afrique : Recherches et Expériences, No. 2, August 2008, pp. 12-15.
“A Critical Approach of the Community College Model in the Global Order: The College Universitaire Régional of Bambey (Senegal) as a Case Study”, in Rosalind Latiner Raby and Edward Valeau, (eds.), Community College Models, Globalization, and Higher Education Reform, Springer, 2009 (co-author: Barrel Gueye).
“Colonisation française et exploitation de la main-d’œuvre carcérale au Sénégal : De l’emploi des détenus des camps pénaux sur les chantiers des travaux routiers, (1927-1940)”, French Colonial History, Vol. 5, 2004, pp. 153-171.
“Sénégal: un système pénitentiaire en crise. Acteurs et enjeux des débats en cours”. Revue Française d’Histoire d’Outre-Mer, t.86, n°324-325, 1999, p.124-148. (co-authors: Ibrahima Thioub, Babacar Ba)
An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet [A regularly updated and widely-cited and used Internet guide to African studies] (www.lib.msu.edu/limb/a-z/az.html) (co-author: Peter Limb)
“The Prison of Saint-Louis: French Expansion, Social Control, and Early Development of the Penitentiary Institution in Senegal, 1834-1895,” in Emily Clark, Cécile Duval, and Ibrahima Thioub, eds. New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal: Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, 1659–2000s, Louisiana State University Press, 2019, pp. 103-124
Professional Affiliations
African Studies Association (ASA)
American Historical Association (AHA)
Association of African Historians (AAH)
Association Sénégalaise des Bibliothécaires, Archivistes, et Documentalistes (ASBAD)
Senegambian Studies Group (SSG)
West African Research Association (WARA) – Member of the Board of Directors, 2010-2016; Lifetime Member
Collectif pour le Renouveau Africain/Collective for the Renewal of Africa (CORA)
Awards & Honors
The Alliance for African Partnership Transforming Institutions Strategic Funding, Michigan State University, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 2020
Hewlett-Mellon Fund for Institutional Renewal, , 2017-2020
The Alliance for African Partnership Planning Grant, Michigan State University, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 2017-2019
Global Crossroads Grand Challenge Grant, GLCA-GLAA, 2017-2019
Mobility Fellowship, Institut Historique Allemand-Centre de Recherches sur les Politiques Sociales (CREPOS), Dakar Senegal, June-August 2018
Global Liberal Arts Alliance Exchange Program, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Ifrane, Morocco, 2010
The Henry Luce III Fund for Distinguished Scholarship Award, , 2010
The Isabel and Elizabeth Ralston Presidential Endowment Fund for Faculty Development, , 2009
Donald Lammers Graduate Award, Department of History, Michigan State University, 2007
NFP Fellowship, Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education, 2006
Finalist, The Five College ABD Fellowship Program for Minority Scholars, Five Colleges Consortium, 2006
SSRC-ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF), 2005-2006
Compton Africa Peace Fellowship, Michigan State University, 2005 (Declined)
W. J. Eccles Prize, The French Colonial Historical Society, 2004
Laureate, Dual Intellectual Citizenship, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), University of Pennsylvania, West African Research Assoc., 1999
MA Thesis Writing Grant, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), 1996
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