Ibra Sene

Biography

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

Selected Publications & Presentations

• “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 & Honors

• 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