Ibra Sene

Department/Affiliation: History
Phone: 330-263-2622
Office Address: 116 Kauke
Email: isene@wooster.edu
Web Site: Ibra Sene

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

• HIST 231: Africa to 1800
• First Year Seminar
• European Colonialism and Imperialism
• Prison Systems
• African and African-American Relations
• Islam and Societies in Africa

Honors, Awards and Grants

• Global Liberal Arts Alliance Exchange Program, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Ifrane, Morocco, June 25-July 3, 2010.
• Henry Luce III Fund for Distinguished Scholarship Award, The College of Wooster, 2011
• The Ralston Faculty Development Grant, The College of Wooster, 2009
• Donald Lammers Graduate Award, Department of History, Michigan State University, 2007
• Summer Research Enhancement Award, Department of History, Michigan State University, 2007
• NFP Fellowship, Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education, 2006
• SSRC-ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF), 2005-2006
• W.J. Eccles Prize, The French Colonial Historical Society, 2004
• Graduate Student International Travel Grant (GSITG), International Studies and Programs, Michigan State University, Summer 2002
• Graduate Teaching Award, Department of History, Michigan State University, Fall 2001
• West African Research Association Travel Grant, Spring 2001
• MA Thesis Writing Grant, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), 1996

Professional Memberships

• Association of African Historians
• African Studies Association (ASA)
• West African Research Association (WARA) (Member of the Board of Directors - 2010-2013)
• The French Colonial Historical Society
• Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Marginalite et l'Exclusion au Sénégal (GERMES), Dept. of History, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
• Association Senegalaise des Bibliothécaires, Archivistes, et Documentalistes (ASBAD) [Senegalese Library and Information Science Association]
  
  

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)
• “Race and Imprisonment in Colonial Senegal: Evidence from the Prison of Saint-Louis (1860-1940)”, in Jyoti Mohan and Mike Vann, eds., Anthology on Race in France and the French Colonies (forthcoming).