Education
Ph.D. – Northwestern University 2000
M.A. – Northwestern University 1995
B.A. – University of Georgia 1993

Interests and Research
Gregory Mann is an historian of francophone West Africa. He is currently working on a book project entitled The End of the Road: Nongovernmentality in the West African Sahel. Drawing on research conducted primarily in Mali, as well as in Senegal and Niger, the project analyzes the rise of novel forms of political rationality among governments and non-governmental organizations in the Sahel from 1946 to the late 1970s. Mann’s articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the Journal of African History and Politique Africaine, among other publications. His award-winning book Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the 20^th century was published by Duke University Press in 2006. He earned his doctorate at Northwestern University and his B.A. at the University of Georgia. Mann lives in New York City.

Affiliations
Fellow, Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall (Paris)
Member, Committee on the Global Core
Program Coordinator, African Civilizations Program
Member, Advisory Committee, Center for International History
Member, French Studies Interdisciplinary Committee
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Office of Global Programs
Member, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Member, African Studies Association
Member, American Historical Association
Member, Institut des Sciences Humaines, Bamako, Mali
Member, Mande Studies Association
Member, Projet Point Sud—Center for Research on Local Knowledge, Bamako, Mali

Courses
West African History
Writing Contemporary African History
Africa and France
Islam in Africa
African Civilizations
Making African History: Between Field and Archive
Introduction to History and Historiography
Historiography of Africa
Africa, Europe, and New Colonial Histories
Neoliberal Africa

David Pinkney Prize for the best book in French history published in 2006, awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies for Native Sons – 2007
Finalist, Melville J. Herskovits Prize for the best book in African studies published in 2006, awarded by the African Studies Association for Native Sons – 2007
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend – 2005
Camargo Foundation Fellowship (Cassis, France) – 2000
Fulbright-IIE—1998-99

Book

2006                Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the 20th century (Duke)

Scholarly Articles (selected)

2009                “What was the indigénat? The ‘Empire of law’ in French West Africa,” Journal of African History 50, 3: 331-53.

2008                “An Africanist’s Apostasy: On Luise White’s Speaking with Vampires,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 41, 1: 117-21.

2007                With Baz Lecocq, “Between Empire, umma, and Muslim Third World: The French Union and African Pilgrims to Mecca, 1946-1958,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 27, 2: 367-83.

2007                “Colonialism Now: Contemporary Anti-colonialism and the facture coloniale,” Politique Africaine 105: 181-200.

2005                “Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa,” American Historical Review 110, 2: 409-34.

2005                “Des tirailleurs Sénégalais aux sans-papiers: Universaux et particularismes,” In L’Esclavage, la Colonisation, et après…: France, Etats-Unis, Grande Bretagne, Patrick Weil and Stéphane Dufoix, eds. Presses Universitaires de la France: 411-36.

2003                “Immigrants and Arguments in France and West Africa,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 45, 2: 362-85.

2003                “Violence, Dignity and Mali’s New Model Army, 1960-68,” Mande Studies 5: 65-82.