Education
Ph.D. – Northwestern University 2000
M.A. – Northwestern University 1995
B.A. – University of Georgia 1993

Current Departmental Service
Graduate Education Committee (Fall 2008)
Professional Development Officer

Interests and Research
Gregory Mann, associate professor, specializes in the history of francophone West Africa . He is currently working on two projects: a history of political belonging in the Sahel (1946-1978); and a study of political discourse on colonial history in African post-colonies.

Affiliations
Fellow, Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall (Paris)
Member, Committee on the Global Core
Program Coordinator, African Civilizations Program
Member, Advisory Committee, Center for International History
Member, French Studies Interdisciplinary Committee
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Office of Global Programs
Member, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Member, African Studies Association
Member, American Historical Association
Member, Institut des Sciences Humaines, Bamako, Mali
Member, Mande Studies Association
Member, Projet Point Sud—Center for Research on Local Knowledge, Bamako, Mali

Courses
Main Currents in African History (Africa Since 1800)
History of West Africa (ca. 1500-2000)
Writing Contemporary African History
Islam in Africa
Slaves and Subjects in African History
African Soldiers in the 20th Century
African Civilizations
Making African History: Between Field and Archive
Introduction to History and Historiography
Africa, Europe, and New Colonial Histories

David Pinkney Prize for the best book in French history published in 2006, awarded by the Society for
French Historical Studies for Native Sons – 2007
Finalist, Melville J. Herskovits Prize for the best book in African studies published in 2006, awarded by
the African Studies Association for Native Sons – 2007
Faculty Development Grant, Columbia University – 2007
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for project on “Building African Citizenship:
Independent Mali and Post-Imperial France” – 2005
Faculty Development Grant, Columbia University – 2002
Camargo Foundation Fellowship (Cassis, France) – 2000

Books
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the 20th century

Scholarly Articles
“An Africanist’s Apostasy: On Luise White’s Speaking with Vampires,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 41, 1: 117-21
With Baz Lecocq, “Between Empire, umma, and Muslim Third World: The French Union and African Pilgrims to Mecca, 1946-1958,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 27, 2: 367-83
“Colonialism Now: Contemporary Anti-colonialism and the facture coloniale,” Politique Africaine 105: 181-200
“Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa”. American Historical Review 110, 2: 409-34
“Des tirailleurs Sénégalais aux sans-papiers: Universaux et particularismes”. In L’Esclavage, la Colonisation, et après…: France, Etats-Unis, Grande Bretagne, Patrick Weil and Stéphane Dufoix, eds. Presses Universitaires de la France: 411-36
“Name-Dropping: Jamuw and History in the Western Sudan”. In Mande-Manding: Background reading
for ethnographic research in the region south of Bamako (Mali), Jan Jansen, ed. Department of Cultural
Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University (The Netherlands): 177-89.
 “Fetishizing Religion: Allah Koura and French ‘Islamic Policy’ in Late Colonial French Soudan”.
Journal of African History 44, 2: 263-82.
 “Immigrants and Arguments in France and West Africa”. Comparative Studies in Society and History 45,
2: 362-85.
 “Old Soldiers, Young Men: Masculinity, Islam, and Military Veterans in Late 1950s Soudan Français
(Mali)”. In Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa, Lisa A. Lindsay and Stephan F. Miescher, eds.
Heinemann (Social History of Africa series): 69-85.
 “Violence, Dignity and Mali’s New Model Army, 1960-68”. Mande Studies 5: 65-82.
With Baz Lecocq, “Writing Histories of an African Post-colony: Modibo Keita’s Mali, 1960-68”. Mande
Studies 5: 1-8. (second author)
Guest editor, with Baz Lecocq, “Modibo Keita’s Mali, 1960-68”. Mande Studies 5: 1-112.
 “What’s in an Alias? Family Names, Individual Histories, and Historical Method in the Western Sudan”.
History in Africa 29: 309-20