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Leonardo A. Villalon
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Leonardo A. Villalón is dean of
the International Center and professor of Political Science and African Studies
at the University of Florida (UF). He is a specialist on the politics of the
Francophone countries of the African Sahel (Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso,
Mauritania, and Chad), and coordinates the UF Sahel Research Group. His
research has focused on questions of Islam and politics and on democratization
and political stability. Villalón has taught at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar and Gaston Berger University in St. Louis, Senegal, and he has
lectured and directed seminars and workshops at universities and other
institutions in numerous other West African countries. His work has been supported
by a Carnegie Scholars award and by grants from the US State Department, the United Kingdom Department for International Development, and the Minerva initiative.
He is currently co-editor of the Journal
of Modern African Studies.
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