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Title:
Associate Professor, African and Afro-American Studies; Director, African Studies Center; Adjunct Associate Professor, Anthropology
Education:
B.A., Anthropology, College of William and Mary; Ph.D., Social Anthropology, Harvard University.
Teaching Interests:Ethnography of Africa, West Africa, Political conflict.
Current Research:
My research has focused on francophone West Africa and, in particular, the West African nation of Senegal. I have lived for over five years in Senegal and the neighboring nation of Mauritania, where I served as a Peace Corps volunteer. I have just completed a historical ethnography of urban migration in a Senegalese community. The results of this research have been published in my book, Longing for Exile: Migration and the Making of a Translocal Community in Senegal (West Africa) (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002). Having completed this project I am undertaking a new project on political violence, the press, and nationalism in Senegal. This research will examine the ways by which the Senegalese press has reported on an independence movement that has been active in Senegal's southern Casamance region. In addition to these topics I have published on gender, negritude, transnational migration, and West African politics.
Curriculum vitae
Email: mlambert@email.unc.edu
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