l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor of African History and Politics

Fordham University, New York

idris@fordham.edu

Department of African & African American Studies
Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus)
113 West 60th Street, Room 414E
New York, New York 10023 USA

phone: 212-636-6180
fax: 212-636-7253

Sudan ; South Sudan

Member, Sudan Studies Association (USA), since 1995
Member, Canadian African Studies Association, since 1995

Ph.D. in African History, Queens University, 2000.
M.A. in Political Science, American University in Cairo, 1992.

-History and Politics of Colonialism
-State Formation and Nationhood
-Slavery, Race and Political Identities
-Civil Society & Democracy

-History and Politics of Colonialism
-State Formation and Nationhood
-Slavery, Race and Political Identities
-Civil Society & Democracy

Books and Monographs:

Identity, citizenship, and violence in two Sudans : reimagining a common future. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Conflict and politics of identity in Sudan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2005.

Sudan's Civil War - Slavery, Race and Formational Identities. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.

Book Chapters:

"Federalism and Political Stability in the Sudan," in Hyder Ali, ed.,
Democracy in the Sudan. Cairo: S.C, 1993.

"Sudan"; "Juba"; and "Khartoum". In Encyclopedia of Twentieth
Century African History, eds., Paul T. Zeleza and Dickson L. Eyoh
(London: Routledge, 2003).

"The Racialized and Islamicized Sudanese State and the Question of the
Southern Sudan," in State Crises, Globalisation, and National Movements in
North-east Africa, ed. by Asafa Jalata (London; New York: Routledge, 2004).

Conference presentations:

"Reconstituting the Sudan's civil war," Paper presented to the
International Sudan Studies Association Fourth Triennial Meetings, Cairo,
Egypt, 11-14 June 1997.

Co-presenter of:
"Civil society and the myth of the two publics in Africa," Paper presented
to the Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Meeting, Montreal,
Canada, May 1-5, 1996.

history ; politics ; colonialism ; state formation ; nationhood ; slavery ; race ; identity.