Madina Thiam

Assistant Professor of History

EDUCATION

The George Washington University, BA 2012

University of California Los Angeles, PhD 2022

AREAS OF RESEARCH/INTEREST

West Africa, African Diaspora, Sahel, Mali, social history, migrations, memory, gender, slavery, French colonialism, Atlantic and Saharan race-making

BIO

My research and teaching explore the circulations of people and ideas in and out of West Africa; social histories of Islam in Mali and the Sahel; Malian women’s histories; anti-colonial movements; and pan-Africanism.

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Fellowships and Honors

  • 2021-2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
  • 2020-2022 Project Grant, Modern Endangered Archives Program, UCLA Library
  • 2020 Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association
  • 2020 Penny Kanner Dissertation Research Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women at UCLA
  • 2018-2020 Innovation Grant, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy at UCLA
  • 2018-2019 Mellon/SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship
  • 2016 Graduate Student Travel Award, African Studies Association

Publications

  • Fuir du Mali à la Mecque
    Colonisations: Notre histoire
    ed. Arthur Asseraf, Guillaume Blanc, Yala Kisukidi, Mélanie Lamotte and Pierre Singaravélou (Paris: Le Seuil, forthcoming 2023)
  • Women in Mali
    Oxford University Press, 2020
    Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African Women's History ed. Dorothy Hodgson
  • The History of Mali: Connectivity and State Formation since the 18th Century (with Gregory Mann)
    Oxford University Press, 2020
    Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History ed. Thomas Spear
  • Struggle, Neglect and Archives
    CODESRIA Bulletin no. 5&6, Special Issue on the Crisis in Mali and in the Sahel Region (2020): 21-23
  • Nicholas Said, étonnant voyageur
    Sahara, mondes connectés
    eds. Sophie Caratini, Charles Grémont, Céline Lesourd and Olivier Schinz (Paris: Gallimard, 2019)

Reviews

Islamic Africa, Research Africa Reviews, Ufamahu: a Journal of African Studies