Speaker: Madina Thiam
Time: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm
Venue: 206 Ingraham Hall
Speaker Bio
Madina Thiam is a historian of modern West Africa. Her work explores the circulations of people and ideas connecting West Africa to the Atlantic and Saharan worlds; social histories of Islam in Mali and the Sahel; Malian women’s histories; and pan-Africanism. Her writing has appeared in several outlets, including the Journal of African History, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, CODESRIA Bulletin, and Islamic Africa. She is an Assistant Professor of History at NYU, currently at work on her first monograph, an intimate history of the Sahel’s Inland Delta told through the lens of individual and family trajectories.