Gregory Mann
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, Department of History
Research
Gregory Mann, assistant professor, specializes in the history of francophone West Africa. His research interests include violence, immigration, and religious practice in Mali and elsewhere. He is currently completing a monograph with the working title Native Sons: Soldiers, slaves, and French-African political imagination, and he is co-editing a collection of articles on post-colonial Mali's first non-capitalist regime (1960-68). His publications include "Immigrants and Arguments in France and West Africa" (Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2003); "Fetishizing Religion: Allah Koura and French 'Islamic policy' in late colonial Soudan Français" (Journal of African History, 2003); and "Old Soldiers, Young Men: Masculinity, Islam, and military veterans in late 1950s Soudan Français (Mali)" (in Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa, Lisa Lindsay and Stephan Miescher, eds., 2003). He has also published in History in Africa, and with Jane I. Guyer he co-authored "Imposing a Guide on the Indigène: the Fifty Year Experience of the Sociétés de Prévoyance in French West and Equatorial Africa" (in Credit, Currencies, and Culture: African Financial Institutions in Historical Perspective, Endre Stiansen and Jane I. Guyer, eds., 1999). Mann received his B.A. from the University of Georgia in 1993 and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2000.
See Also
- Featured publication: Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
