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Ousmane Kane
International Affairs Building, Room 826
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-2423
ousmane.kane@sipa.columbia.edu
ok2009@columbia.edu
Biography:
Professor Ousmane Kane is an associate professor of international and public affairs at SIPA at Columbia University since 2002. He received a BA and M.A in Islamic Studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, and an M.Phil and a Ph.D in Political Science from Science Po Paris in 1993. He specializes in comparative politics (Sub-Saharan Africa), Islamic politics, and transnational migration and religion. Prior to joining SIPA, he held academic appointments at the University of Kansas, the University of London and Yale University.
Search Categories: Senegal, Comparative Politics/Sub-Saharan Africa
Publications:
His recent books include Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria (Brill : 2003); The Homeland is the Arena. Religion, Transnationalism and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America, (Oxford University Press, 2010), and Timbuktu and Beyond. Rethinking African Intellectual History (Harvard University Press, forthcoming). He has published articles in many journals including the Harvard International Review, Politique étrangère, Afrique contemporaine, African Journal of International Affairs and Islam et sociétés au Sud du Sahara. He has received numerous grants and fellowships including from the Rockefeller Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, Yale University, and the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin.
Search Categories: Africa, politics, Islam, Senegal