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Mamadou Diouf
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Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies
and the director of Columbia University's Institute for African Studies. His
research interests include urban, political, social and intellectual history in
colonial and postcolonial Africa. Before joining the faculty at Columbia
University, he was the Charles D. Moody Jr. Collegiate Professor of History and
African American Studies at the University of Michigan, from 2000 to 2007.
Before that, he was Head of the Research, Information, and Documentation
Department of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in
Africa (CODESRIA) and faculty member of the History Department of Cheikh Anta
Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. His publications include: Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal (ed.
2013), New Perspectives on Islam in
Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, and Power (with Mara A. Leichtman,
2009). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Sorbonne.
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