Date and Time: October 10, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Room: 120
Location: West Hall
Campus: Tempe
Price: Free
Michael A. Gomez is currently Silver Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, having served as the founding director of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora from its inception in 2000 to 2007 and is currently series editor of the Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora, Cambridge University Press. He has chaired the History departments at both NYU and Spelman College and also served as President of UNESCO's International Scientific Committee for the Slave Route Project from 2009 to 2011.
He is the author of four books, “Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu,” “Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South,” “Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora,” and “Diasporic Africa: A Reader,” as well as an edited volume, “Black Crescent: African Muslims in the Americas.” Gomez’s new book, “African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa,” is a comprehensive study of polity and religion during the region’s iconic collective moment. Invested in an Arabic manuscript project disrupted by war (in Mali), arguably one of the most important endeavors of its kind in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Gomez remains supportive of the struggles of people of African descent worldwide.
Department: School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Other department: Center for Maghrib Studies, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, School of Social Transformation, Office of the Vice President for Inclusion and Community Engagement
Curator: Chouki El Hamel