Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor
Navel of the World: an Intimate History of the West African Sahel
Bio. Madina Thiam is a historian of modern West Africa, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. 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, Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique, CODESRIA Bulletin, and Islamic Africa.