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Michael Gomez Professor of History , Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1985 Email:  michael.gomez@nyu.edu

Areas of Research/Interest: African diaspora; Islam in West Africa.

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Teaching and Research Interests

Select Publications:

Diasporic Africa: A Reader (New York University Press, 2006)	Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas (Cambridge University Press, 2005)	Exchanging our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (University of North Carolina Press, 1998)

Pragmatism in the Age of the Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu (Cambridge University Press, 1992)

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