Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University, New York, New York)

Submitted:  Tues, May 25, 2011


Mamadou Diouf
Leitner Family Professor of African Studies
Director, Institute of African Studies (IAS)
Professor of History
Columbia University

Mail address:
Institute of African Studies
Columbia University
Knox Hall
606 West 122nd Street, MC 9631
New York, New York 10027

phone: (212) 854-4083
e-mail: md2573@columbia.edu

Web page on Diouf: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/faculty/directory/diouf.html
Web site for IAS: http://www.ias.columbia.edu/
 

Current research: a) youth in colonial and postcolonial Africa
                  b) citizenship in a comparative imperial perspective.
 

Selected publications:
 
2010    Co-editor with Ifeoma Nwanko.
Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: rituals and remembrances. 
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

2009     Co-editor with Mara A. Leichtman.  
New perspectives on Islam in Senegal: conversion, migration, wealth, 
power, and femininity.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2003    Historians and histories, what for? : African historiography 
between the state and the communities.  Amsterdam, Netherlands: 
SEPHIS; Calcutta: CSSSC.  [27 p.] 

2002    With Donal Cruise O'Brien and Momar-Coumba Diop. 
La construction de l'Etat au Sénégal.   Paris: 
Karthala.

2001   Histoire du Sénégal: le modèle 
islamo-wolof et ses périphéries.  Paris: Maisonneuve 
& Larose.

       "Les élites et la représentation politique en 
Afrique," in L. Marfaing and B. Reinwald (eds.), African Networks, 
Exchange and Spatial Dynamics.  Tribute to L. Harding. Hamburg, Lit 
Verlag.

2000   "Les jeunes du sud et le temps du monde: Identités, 
conflits et adaptations, (with R. Collignon) in Les jeunes, hantise de 
l'espace public dans les sociétés du sud? 
Ed. by Mamadou Diouf and René Collignon.  Paris: Autrepart 18.
 
       "Des Historiens et des histoires, pourquoi faire? L'histoire 
africaine entre l'état et les communautés, Canadian 
Journal of African Studies/Revue Canadienne d'Etudes Africaines 34, 2 
(2000): 337-374.
 
       "The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a 
Vernacular Cosmopolitism, " Public culture, 4, 32 (2000): 
679-702.
 

1999   "The French colonial policy of assimilation and the civility of the 
originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal): a nineteenth century 
globalization project," in Birgit Meyer and Peter Geschiere, eds., 
Globalization and identity: dialectics of flows and closure.  
London: Blackwell.  pp. 71-96.

       Les figures du politique en Afrique : des pouvoirs
hérites aux pouvoirs élus.  Sous la direction de
Momar-Coumba Diop et Mamadou Diouf. Paris : Karthala ; Dakar : Codesria.
[ With Momar-Coumba Diop.  "Séneégal: par de la 
succession Senghor-Diouf." ]

       L'historiographie indienne en débat: colonialisme,
nationalisme et sociétés post-coloniales.  Sous la
direction du Mamadou Diouf.  Paris : Karthala ; Amsterdam : Sephis.

1998   Political liberalisation or democratic transition: African
perspectives.  Codesria new path series.  [Dakar, 
Sénégal] : Codesria.

       With Aminata Diaw.  "Ethnic group versus nation: identity 
discourses in Senegal," in Okwudiba Nnoli, ed., Ethnic conflicts in 
Africa.  Dakar, Sénégal: Codesria.  pp. 259-85.

       "Urban Youth and Senegalese Politics. Dakar, 1988-1994," Public 
culture 8, 2 (1996): 225-248 ; reprinted in James Holston (ed) 
Cities and citizenship. Public culture. Durham, Duke University 
Press. (1996): 42-66.
 

1995   With Abdoulaye Bathily and Mohamed Mbodj. "The Senegalese student
movement from its inception to 1989," in Mahmood Mamdani and Ernest
Wamba-dia-Wamba, eds., African studies in social movements and
democracy. Dakar, Sénégal : Codesria ;  Oxford :
Distributors, ABC.  pp. 369-408.

1994   Academic freedom in Africa. Ed. by Mahmood Mamdani and 
Mamadou Diouf.  Dakar, Sénégal : Codesria ; Oxford : 
Distributors, ABC.

1992   "Le clientélisme, la 'technocratie', et après?"
in Momar Coumba Diop, ed., Sénégal: trajectoires d'un 
état.  Dakar, Sénégal : Codesria ; Paris : 
Karthala.  pp. 233-78.

       With Mohamed Mbodj.  "The shadow of Cheikh Anta Diop," in V.Y. 
Mudimbe, ed., The surreptitious speech: Présence africaine and 
the politics of otherness, 1947-1987.  Chicago : The University of 
Chicago Press.  pp. 118-35.

1990   Le Kajoor au XIXe siècle : pouvoir ceddo et 
conquête coloniale.  Paris : Karthala.

       With Momar Coumba Diop.  Le Sénégal sous 
Abdou Diouf : état et société.  Paris : 
Karthala.