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Ibra Sene

Ibra Sene associate professor of history at college of wooster

Ibra Sene

Associate Professor of History and Global & International Studies

isene@wooster.edu

Phone: 330-263-2622

Office: Kauke 116

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Degrees

  • B.A., Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal 1996
  • M.A., Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal 1998
  • M.L.I.S., Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal 1999
  • D.E.A., Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal 2000
  • Graduate Certificate, University of Amsterdam 2006
  • Ph.D., Michigan State University 2008
Courses Taught
  • HIST 231: The Making of Africa
  • HIST 232: Africa from Colonization to Globalization
  • HIST 301: Islam and Societies in Africa
  • HIST 201: History of the African and African American Connections
  • HIST 101: West Africa and the World
  • HIST 101: History of Islam
  • FYSM 101: Africa and COVID-19
  • FYSM 101: Being Young and African in the 21st Century
  • FYSM 101: The Youth in Recent African History Through Film and Literature
Publications
  • “Slavery, History, and Memory: A Report on the African Burial Ground in New York City”, PHARE: Patrimoine & Histoire en Afrique : Recherches et Expériences, No. 2, August 2008, pp. 12-15.
  • “A Critical Approach of the Community College Model in the Global Order: The College Universitaire Régional of Bambey (Senegal) as a Case Study”, in Rosalind Latiner Raby and Edward Valeau, (eds.), Community College Models, Globalization, and Higher Education Reform, Springer, 2009 (co-author: Barrel Gueye).
  • “Colonisation française et exploitation de la main-d’œuvre carcérale au Sénégal : De l’emploi des détenus des camps pénaux sur les chantiers des travaux routiers, (1927-1940)”, French Colonial History, Vol. 5, 2004, pp. 153-171.
  • “Sénégal: un système pénitentiaire en crise. Acteurs et enjeux des débats en cours”. Revue Française d’Histoire d’Outre-Mer, t.86, n°324-325, 1999, p.124-148. (co-authors: Ibrahima Thioub, Babacar Ba)
  • An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet [A regularly updated and widely-cited and used Internet guide to African studies] (www.lib.msu.edu/limb/a-z/az.html) (co-author: Peter Limb)
  • “The Prison of Saint-Louis: French Expansion, Social Control, and Early Development of the Penitentiary Institution in Senegal, 1834-1895,” in Emily Clark, Cécile Duval, and Ibrahima Thioub, eds. New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal: Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, 1659–2000s, Louisiana State University Press, 2019, pp. 103-124
Professional Affiliations
  • African Studies Association (ASA)
  • American Historical Association (AHA)
  • Association of African Historians (AAH)
  • Association Sénégalaise des Bibliothécaires, Archivistes, et Documentalistes (ASBAD)
  • Senegambian Studies Group (SSG)
  • West African Research Association (WARA) – Member of the Board of Directors, 2010-2016; Lifetime Member
  • Collectif pour le Renouveau Africain/Collective for the Renewal of Africa (CORA)
Awards
  • The Alliance for African Partnership Transforming Institutions Strategic Funding, Michigan State University, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 2020
  • Hewlett-Mellon Fund for Institutional Renewal, The College of Wooster, 2017-2020
  • The Alliance for African Partnership Planning Grant, Michigan State University, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 2017-2019
  • Global Crossroads Grand Challenge Grant, GLCA-GLAA, 2017-2019
  • Mobility Fellowship, Institut Historique Allemand-Centre de Recherches sur les Politiques Sociales (CREPOS), Dakar Senegal, June-August 2018
  • Global Liberal Arts Alliance Exchange Program, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Ifrane, Morocco, 2010
  • The Henry Luce III Fund for Distinguished Scholarship Award, The College of Wooster, 2010
  • The Isabel and Elizabeth Ralston Presidential Endowment Fund for Faculty Development, The College of Wooster, 2009
  • Donald Lammers Graduate Award, Department of History, Michigan State University, 2007
  • NFP Fellowship, Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education, 2006
  • Finalist, The Five College ABD Fellowship Program for Minority Scholars, Five Colleges Consortium, 2006
  • SSRC-ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF), 2005-2006
  • Compton Africa Peace Fellowship, Michigan State University, 2005 (Declined)
  • W. J. Eccles Prize, The French Colonial Historical Society, 2004
  • Laureate, Dual Intellectual Citizenship, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), University of Pennsylvania, West African Research Assoc., 1999
  • MA Thesis Writing Grant, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), 1996