Africa

United States of America

Herbert Lehman Professor of Government; Professor of Anthropology

Columbia University, New York, New York

mm1124@columbia.edu

Department of Anthropology
Columbia University
401 Knox Hall
606 West 122nd Street, MC 9628
New York, New York 10027 USA

212-854-8777

Africa

His research explores the intersection between politics and culture, a
comparative study of colonialism, the history of civil war and genocide in
Africa, the Cold War and the War on Terror, and the history and theory of
human rights.

He teaches courses on: Major Debates in the Study of Africa; The Modern
State and the Colonial Subject; The Cold War and the Third World; the
theory, history, and practice of human rights; and civil wars and the
state in Africa.

Selected publications:

2009. Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror.
Pantheon, New York.

2009. "The International Criminal Court's case against the President of
Sudan: a critical look," Journal of international affairs. 62, 2
(Spring/Summer): 85-92.

2008. La CIA et la fabrique du terrorisme islamiste. Traduit de l'anglais
par Ousmane Kane. Paris: Demopolis.

2007. Scholars in the marketplace: the dilemmas of neoliberal reform at
Makerere University, 1989-2005. Dakar: Council for the Development of
Social Science Research in Africa.

2004. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of
Terror. New York: Pantheon.

2001. When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in
Rwanda. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; Cape Town: David
Phillip ; Kampala: Fountain; London: James Currey.

2001. "Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the
Political Legacy of Colonialism", Comparative Studies in Society and
History, vol. 43, no. 4, October.

2000. "Indirect Rule and the Struggle for Democracy: A Response to
Bridget O. Laughlin," African Affairs, pp. 43-46.

1999. "Historicizing Power and Responses to Power: Indirect Rule and its
Reform," Social Research, vol.66, no 3, pp. 859-886.

1996. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late
Colonialism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; Cape Town: David
Phillip ; Kampala: Fountain; London: James Currey.

1987. "Extreme but not Exceptional: Towards an Analysis of the Agrarian
Question in Uganda," Journal of Peasant Studies, 14, 2, London.

1976. Politics and Class Formation in Uganda. London: Heinemann
Educational Books; New York: Monthly Review Press.

1973. From Citizen to Refugee. London: Francis Pinter Ltd.

1972. The Myth of Population Control: Family, Class and Caste in an
Indian Village. New York: Monthly Review Press.