Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University, New York, New York)

Submitted: Wed, February 24, 2010


Mahmood Mamdani
Herbert Lehman Professor of Government
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology 
Columbia University

Mail Address:	
401 Knox Hall
606 West 122nd Street, MC 9628
New York, New York  10027  USA

phone:    212-854-8777
e-mail:   mm1124@columbia.edu
	

His research explores the intersection between politics and culture, a 
comparative study of colonialism, the history of civil war and genocide in 
Africa, the Cold War and the War on Terror, and the history and theory of 
human rights.

He teaches courses on: Major Debates in the Study of Africa; The Modern 
State and the Colonial Subject; The Cold War and the Third World; the 
theory, history, and practice of human rights; and civil wars and the 
state in Africa.


Selected publications:

2009.  Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror. 
Pantheon, New York.

2009. "The International Criminal Court's case against the President of 
Sudan: a critical look," Journal of international affairs. 62, 2 
(Spring/Summer): 85-92.

2008.  La CIA et la fabrique du terrorisme islamiste. Traduit de l'anglais 
par Ousmane Kane. Paris: Demopolis.

2007.  Scholars in the marketplace: the dilemmas of neoliberal reform at 
Makerere University, 1989-2005.  Dakar: Council for the Development of 
Social Science Research in Africa.

2004.  Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of 
Terror.  New York: Pantheon.

2001.  When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in 
Rwanda.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; Cape Town: David 
Phillip ; Kampala: Fountain; London: James Currey.

2001.   "Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the 
Political Legacy of Colonialism", Comparative Studies in Society and 
History, vol. 43, no. 4, October.

2000.   "Indirect Rule and the Struggle for Democracy: A Response to 
Bridget O. Laughlin," African Affairs, pp. 43-46.

1999.   "Historicizing Power and Responses to Power: Indirect Rule and its 
Reform," Social Research, vol.66, no 3, pp. 859-886.

1996.  Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late 
Colonialism.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; Cape Town: David 
Phillip ; Kampala: Fountain; London: James Currey.

1987. "Extreme but not Exceptional: Towards an Analysis of the Agrarian 
Question in Uganda," Journal of Peasant Studies, 14, 2, London.

1976.  Politics and Class Formation in Uganda.  London: Heinemann 
Educational Books; New York: Monthly Review Press.

1973.  From Citizen to Refugee.  London: Francis Pinter Ltd.

1972.  The Myth of Population Control: Family, Class and Caste in an 
Indian Village.  New York: Monthly Review Press.