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Ousmane Kane
International Affairs Building, Room 1105B
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-2423
ok2009@columbia.edu
Biography:
Professor Ousmane Kane joined Columbia University in January 2002 as a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute of African Studies. In July 2002 he was appointed an associate professor of international and public affairs.
A specialist in comparative politics, political anthropology, African political economy, Islamic politics, and transnational migration and religion, he has authored, coedited, and translated a number of books and articles. Some of them are Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria (Brill Academic Publishers 2003); Intellectuels Non Europhones (Codesria 2002); Handlist of Islamic Manuscripts (Al-Furqan 1997); Islam et Islamisme au Sud du Sahara, which he edited with Jean-Louis Triaud (Karthala 1998); "Réflexions sur les Émeutes Interconfessionnelles du Nord du Nigéria," in Politique étrangère (2002); "Muhammad Niasse (1881–1956) et sa Réplique Contre le Pamphlet Anti-Tijani de Ibn Mayaba," in La Tijaniyya, which was edited by Jean-Louis Triaud et David Robinson (Karthala 2000); "La Citoyenneté, la Societé et l'État: le modèle sénégalais," in Revue Sénégalaise de Sociologie, (1998–99), "The Crisis of Democracy and the Emergence of an Islamic Opposition," with Leonardo Villalón in The African State at a Critical Juncture, which was edited by Leonardo Villalón and Phillip Huxtable (Lynne Rienner Publishers 1997); and many others.
Dr. Kane is a member of the Steering Committee of the Afro-Asian Consultation on the Politics of Identity (CODESRIA/ICES) from 1998 to date; the Islamic Dynamics in Black Africa, based at the Centre d'Étude d'Afrique Noire, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France (1991 to date). He is a past member of Religious Pluralism in Africa South of the Sahara, a joint working group of the Université de Pau, France and the Université de Bordeaux, France (1992–94); Transnational Religious Regimes, a working group of the Committee for International Peace and Security of the Social Science Research Council New York, U.S.A. (1991–95); the "Islamic Group, the Fundamentalism Project," funded by the MacArthur Foundation and sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the advisory board of the "Muslim Politics Project" based at the Council on Foreign Relations and funded by the Ford Foundation (1995–1998).
Professor Kane received a Diplôme from Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in 1985, from where in 1987 he also obtained an MPhil, and an MA in translation and documentation in 1988. He received a PhD from Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris in 1993. From 1994 to 1995 he was appointed a visiting professor at University of Kansas. Between 1996 and 1997 he was Leverhulme research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. From 2000 to 2001 he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University.
Research Interests: Senegal, Comparative Politics/Sub-Saharan Africa