Ibra Sene

Associate Professor - History, Global and International Studies
Office: Kauke 116
Phone: 330-263-2622
Email: isene@wooster.edu
Pronouns: He/Him/His
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: 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
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)
- "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