Eric Ross (Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco)

Submitted: Mon, 24 March 2008


Eric Ross
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Al Akhawayn University
P.O. Box 1889
Ifrane, 53000
Morocco

phone:  (+212) 35 86 24 81
fax:    (+212) 35 86 29 77
email:  E.Ross@aui.ma

Web page: http://www.aui.ma/~E.Ross/


Teaching: variety of geography and research methodology courses

Research interests: urban geography, cultural geography, Islam and Sufism, 
Muslim Africa, West Africa, Senegal, Morocco, the Sahara


Recent publications:


Books  

Ross, Eric (2008) Culture and Customs of Senegal, Greenwood/Heineman.  

Ross, Eric (2006) Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba, 
University of Rochester Press, Rochester, N.Y.

Ross, Eric, John A. Shoup, Driss Maghraoui, Abdelkrim Marzouk (2002) 
Assessing Tourism in Essaouira, Al Akhawayn University Press.


Translation

Mbacké, Khadim. Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal, 
translated by Eric Ross and edited by John Hunwick, Markus Weiner 
Publishers, Princeton (originally published in French as Soufisme et 
Confréries Religieuses au Sénégal, IFAN-CAD 
collection études islamiques, 
Dakar, 1995).  


Contributions to edited volumes

Ross, Eric (2008) "Palaver Trees Reconsidered in the Senegalese 
Landscape: Arboreal Monuments and Memorials,"  African Sacred Groves: 
Ecological Dynamics and Social Change, edited by Michael Sheridan & 
Celia Nyamweru, James Currey/Ohio University Press/Unisa Press, Oxford, 
Athens, Ohio and Pretoria.
  
Ross, Eric (2006) "Le Pénc: élément du patrimoine et 
modèle d'aménagement urbain," in Sénégalia: 
Etudes sur le patrimoine ouest-africain, Hommage à Guy Thilmans, 
edited by Cyr Descamps & Abdoulaye Camara, Editions Sépia, 
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.  

Ross, Eric (2005) "From marabout republics to autonomous rural 
communities: autonomous Muslim towns in Senegambia," African Urban Spaces 
in Historical Perspective, edited by Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm, 
University of Rochester Press.


Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Ross, Eric (2002) "Marabout republics then and now: configuring Muslim 
towns in Senegal," in Islam et Sociétés au Sud du Sahara, 
no. 16. 

Ross, Eric (1995) "Touba: a spiritual metropolis in the modern world," 
Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 29, no. 2.

Ross, Eric (1994) "Africa in Islam: what the afrocentric perspective can 
contribute to the study of Islam," International Journal of Islamic and 
Arabic Studies, vol. 11, no. 2.


Conference papers  

Ross, Eric (2005) Villes soufies du Sénégal: réseaux urbains
religieux dans la longue durée, Série Conférences 20, Institut des
Etudes Africaines, Université Mohammed V, Rabat.  


Encyclopedia entries

2007   "Africa, History of the Name" "Afrocentrism"  "Moors in African 
History" "Travel and Exploration: Arab" "Algiers"  "Carthage"  "Gao" 
"Nouakchott" "Tangier" "Timbuktu" and "Tunis" in The New Encyclopedia 
of Africa, Second Edition, Ken Wachsberger, project editor, Charles 
Scribner's Sons.

Forthcoming 2008   "Dakar" "Gorée" "Rufisque" "Saint Louis" 
"Thi&eaucte;s" "Touba" "Kaolack" "Essaouira" and "Ifrane" in 
The City and Urban Life. (A three-volume history of cities of the 
world), Jan Rogozinski, ed., M. E. Sharpe.