People

Mamadou Diallo

Research project: Religion in Senegalese Laïcité: Enunciations of the Secular in the Colonial and Developmental State (1840-1980)

Education

2019 - ongoing
Ph.D. Studies - Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, New York (USA)
2019 - 2023
MPhil. - Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, New York (USA)
2019 - 2021
M.A. - Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, New York (USA)
2007 - 2010
B.A. - History at Université de Grenoble, Grenoble (France)

Professional Academic and Research Appointments

2023 - 2024
Research Fellow - Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (NY, USA)
2020 - 2023
Teaching Fellow - Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (NY, USA)
2017 - 2018
Oral History Researcher - Columbia University, Institute for Religion, Culture & Public Life (NY, USA)

Languages

  • French: Native Fluency
  • Wolof: Native Fluency
  • English: Near Native Fluency
  • Pulaar: Intermediate Level
  • Arabic: Elementary Level

List of Publications (Selection)

Marsh, Wendell & Diallo, Mamadou, Islam and Society in West Africa, an annotated bibliography, Oxford University Press, Upcoming in 2024

Diallo, Mamadou, Review of Bado Ndoye, Paulin Hountondji. Leçons de philosophie africaine, Research Africa Revew, 2022

Ariella Azoulay, Sohail Daulatzai, Arash Davari, Mamadou Diallo, Bouchra Khalili, Elleni Centime Zeleke, Revolution and Rehearsal in the Global South, Unlearning the Archive, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Volume 43, 2022

Diallo, Mamadou & Judith Rottenburg, The Primitivist Veil, in Digital Imaginaries, Kerber Verlag, Berlin, 2021

Media Articles and Other Publications

Diallo, Mamadou, On Museums in Africa and the Cunning of Colonialism, Museum Futures Africa Publication, Johannesburg, 2022

Diallo, Mamadou, Thomas Sankara and the Revolutionary Birth of Burkina Faso, Viewpoint Magazine, 2018

Diallo, Mamadou, The Black Bomb, Chimurenga Chronic, 2018

Diallo, Mamadou, Writing as an Act of Generosity, Chimurenga Chronic, 2018

Diallo, Mamadou, The Memory of Victory, Chimurenga Chronic, 2016