Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. He holds a PhD from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Before joining Columbia University, he was the Charles D. Moody Jr. Professor of History and Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan from 2000 to 2007. Prior to that, he served as the Head of the Research, Information, and Documentation Department at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and was a faculty member in the Department of History at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal.
His research interests include urban, political, social, and intellectual history of colonial and postcolonial Africa. His publications include: Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal (Editor, 2013), New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, and Power (with Mara A. Leichtman, 2009), La Construction de l’État au Sénégal (with M. C. Diop and 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 (Editor, 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), and La Kajoor au XIXe Siècle: Pouvoir Ceddo et Conquête Coloniale (1990).
Professor Diouf serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the Journal of African History (Cambridge), Psychopathologie Africaine (Dakar), La Vie des Idées.fr (Paris), and Public Culture. He is also a co-editor, with Peter Geschiere, of the book series Histoires du Sud/Histories of the South published by Karthala, Paris, and New National Histories in Africa published by Palgrave MacMillan.
Introduction On February 11, 2024, a citizens’ wake was held amidst shock, anger and apprehension at the Cité des enseignants du supérieur de Mermoz, initiated by academics from Cheikh Anta Diop…
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