David Robinson

Domaine de recherche

l'Afrique

Pays de résidence

États-Unis d'Amérique

Titre

Professor of History and African Studies

Affiliation

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

Adresse électronique

robindav@mail.matrix.msu.edu

Adresse

Department of History
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824 USA

Téléphone/Télécopie

phone: 517 353-8898 or 517 355-7500
fax: 517 353-5599

Pays de spécialisation

Senegal ; Mauritania ; Mali

Recherche

Research primarily in Senegal, Mauritania, and Mali, related to the
last two centuries, Muslim societies and French colonial rule.

Coordinating a project, "The African Digital Library for West African
Sources," based at Matrix and African Studies at MSU and financed by the
National Science Foundation. It's purpose is to develop resources in
sound, image and text for educators, students, researchers and the general
public related to West African culture, society and history, and to solve
some of the problems associated with digitization in the process.

Publications

None on file.

Mots-clés

digital library ; African culture ; Muslim societies ; Islam ; ...