Mamadou Diouf (historian)

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. He also serves as director of the Institute of African Studies at SIPA and has been instrumental in its recent reorganization. Diouf holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. 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. 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. 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

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

External links

• Director profile from Institute of African Studies
• Member Profile, Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University
• Columbia News article on his hiring