Amir H. Idris (Fordham University, New York)

Submitted:  Thurs, 22 October 2009


Dr. Amir H. Idris
Associate Professor of African Studies & Associate Chair
Dept. of African & African American Studies
Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus)
113 West 60th Street, Room 414E
New York, New York 10023  USA

phone:    212-636-6180
fax:      212-636-7253
e-mail:   idris@fordham.edu



Member, Sudan Studies Association (USA), since 1995
Member, Canadian African Studies Association, since 1995

Ph.D. in African History, Queens University, 2000.
M.A. in Political Science, American University in Cairo, 1992.


TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

-History and Politics of Colonialism
-State Formation and Nationhood
-Slavery, Race and Political Identities
-Civil Society & Democracy


PUBLICATIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS

Books and Monographs:

Conflict and politics of identity in Sudan.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 
c2005.

Sudan's Civil War - Slavery, Race and Formational Identities. New York:  
The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.


Book Chapters:

"Federalism and Political Stability in the Sudan," in Hyder Ali, ed.,
Democracy in the Sudan. Cairo: S.C, 1993.

"Sudan"; "Juba"; and "Khartoum". In Encyclopedia of Twentieth
Century African History, eds., Paul T. Zeleza and Dickson L. Eyoh
(London: Routledge, 2003).

"The Racialized and Islamicized Sudanese State and the Question of the
Southern Sudan," in State Crises, Globalisation, and National Movements in 
North-east Africa, ed. by Asafa Jalata (London; New York: Routledge, 2004).



Conference presentations:

"Reconstituting the Sudan's civil war," Paper presented to the
International Sudan Studies Association Fourth Triennial Meetings, Cairo,
Egypt, 11-14 June 1997.

Co-presenter of:
"Civil society and the myth of the two publics in Africa," Paper presented
to the Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Meeting, Montreal,
Canada, May 1-5, 1996.