Gregory Mann (Columbia University, New York, New York)

Submitted: Tues, February 23, 2010


Gregory Mann
Associate Professor
Department of History
Columbia University
615 Fayerweather Hall, MC 2502
New York, New York 10027

phone:    212 854 3168
e-mail:   gm522@columbia.edu	


***2009-2010 On Leave***


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.


Education:
M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2000
B.A., University of Georgia, 1993


Selected publications

Books:

Native sons: West African veterans and France in the 20th century. Durham: 
Duke University Press, 2006. Melville J. Herskovits Award Finalist 
2007


Articles:

2009.  "What was the indigenat? The 'empire of law' in French West 
Africa," Journal of African history. vol. 50, no. 3 (November 2009): 331-53. 

2008.  "An Africanist's apostasy: on Luise White's Speaking with 
Vampires," International journal of African historical studies 41, 1: 117-21.

2007.  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.

2007.  "Colonialism now: contemporary anti-colonialism and the facture 
coloniale," Politique africaine 105: 181-200.

2005. "Locating colonial histories: between France and West Africa." 
American historical review 110, 2: 409-34.

2005.  "Des Tirailleurs sénégalais aux Sans-papiers: 
universaux et particularismes."  In: L'Esclavage, la colonisation, et 
après: France, Etats-Unis, Grande Bretagne.  Sous la direction de 
Patrick Weil and Stéphane Dufoix.  Presses Universitaires de la 
France: 411-36.

2004. "Name-dropping: jamuw and history in the western Sudan."  In: 
Mande-Manding: background reading for ethnographic research in the region 
south of Bamako (Mali).  Edited by Jan Jansen.  Department of Cultural 
Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University (The 
Netherlands): 177-89.

2003.  "Fetishizing religion: Allah Koura and French 'Islamic Policy' in 
late colonial French Soudan." Journal of African history 44, 2: 263-82.

2003.  "Immigrants and arguments in France and West Africa." Comparative 
studies in society and history 45, 2: 362-85.

2003.  "Old soldiers, young men: masculinity, Islam, and military veterans 
in late 1950s Soudan Français (Mali)."  In: Men and masculinities 
in modern Africa.  Edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and Stephan F. Miescher. 
Social History of Africa series.  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann: 69-85.

2003.  "Violence, dignity and Mali's new model army, 1960-68." Mande 
Studies 5: 65-82.  (Guest editor for entire issue with Baz Lecocq)

2003.  With Baz Lecocq.
"Writing histories of an African post-colony: Modibo Keita's Mali, 
1960-68." Mande Studies 5: 1-8.  (Guest editor for entire issue with Baz 
Lecocq)

2002.  "What's in an alias?  Family names, individual histories, and 
historical method in the western Sudan." History in Africa 29: 309-20