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FallouNgom,PhDProfessorofAnthropology

Director,AfricanStudiesCenterBostonUniversity,232BayStateRoad

Boston,MA02215,Email:fngom@bu.eduEDUCATION

PhD,FrenchLinguistics,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,2002MA,French(withemphasisonlinguistics),UniversityofMontana,1997Maîtrised’anglais,GrammaireetLinguistique,UniversitédeSaint-Louis,Sénégal,1996 Licenced’anglais,GrammaireetLinguistique,UniversitédeSaint-Louis,Sénégal,1994DEUGd’anglais,UniversitéGastonBergerdeSaint-Louis,Sénégal,1993

PROFESSIONALEMPLOYMENT

ProfessorofAnthropologyandDirectoroftheAfricanStudiesCenter,BostonUniversity,September2017-presentProfessorofAnthropologyandDirectoroftheAfricanLanguageProgram,BostonUniversity,March2017-July2017

AssociateProfessorofAnthropology(withtenure)andDirectoroftheAfricanLanguageProgram,BostonUniversity,January2008–February23,2017Affiliatedfaculty,GlobalDevelopmentPolicyCenter,BostonUniversity,Jan.2019-presentAffiliatedfaculty,LinguisticsProgram,BostonUniversity,2015-present

FulbrightLecturingandResearchScholar,UniversitéGastonBergerdeSaint-Louis,Senegal,October2007–July2008AssociateProfessorofFrenchandLinguistics(withtenure),WesternWashingtonUniversity,Fall2007–January2008AssistantProfessorofFrenchandLinguistics,WesternWashingtonUniversity,2002-2007

RESEARCHANDTEACHINGINTERESTSAfricanAjamisourcesofknowledgeAfricanintellectualtraditionsAfricanArabic&AjamiwritingsintheAmericasIslamandgrassrootsliteraciesinAfricaLanguageanalysisforthedeterminationofnationaloriginSociolinguisticsandlinguisticanthropology

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LANGUAGESKILLSWolof Written,spoken(native)Mandinka Written,spoken(fluent)French Written,spoken(fluent)English Written,spoken(fluent)Fula(FuutaJalonvariety) Written,spoken(fluent)PortugueseCreole(Crioulo) Written,spoken(fluent)Arabic ConversationalSpanish ConversationalSeereer ConversationalJoolaFoñi BasicMankagne BasicLatin GoodKnowledge(readingandwriting)

PUBLICATIONS

SpecialJournalIssue:ʿAjamizationofIslaminAfrica(Leiden:Brill,IslamicAfrica,Volume8:1-2,October2017),216pages(co-editedwithMustaphaH.Kurfi).

Books:MuslimsbeyondtheArabWorld:TheOdysseyofʿAjamīandtheMurīdiyya(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,July2016),336pages.

Winnerofthe2017MelvilleJ.HerskovitsPrizeforthebestbookinAfricanstudies.ReviewedinInternationalJournalofMiddleEastStudies,IslamicAfrica,JournalofIslamicStudies,ReadinginReligion,ReligiousStudiesReview,andResearchAfricaReviews.

Facts,Fiction,andAfricanCreativeImaginations(NewYork,NY:Routledge,2010),332pages.Co-editedwithToyinFalola.OralandWrittenExpressionsofAfricanCultures(Durham,NC:CarolinaAcademicPress,2009),223pages.Co-editedwithToyinFalola.

LexicalBorrowingsasSociolinguisticVariablesinSaint-Louis,Senegal(Munich,Germany:LincomEuropaAcademicPublishers,2006),188pages.Wolof—LanguagesoftheWorld/Materials,No.333(Munich,Germany:LincomEuropaAcademicPublishers,2003),111pages.PhoneticandPhonologicalDescriptionofMandinkakaŋasSpokeninZiguinchor(Munich,Germany:LincomEuropaAcademicPublishers,2000),82pages.

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Books-in-progressThePalgraveHandbookofIslaminAfrica(NewYork:PalgraveMacmillan,undercontract).(co-editedwithMustaphaH.KurfiandToyinFalola).

BeyondAfricanOrality:AjamiPoemsofSëriñMbayJaxateBeyondRituals:TheAfricanSufiOdysseyofShaykhIbraFaal

Peer-reviewedarticlesandchapters “DigitalArchivesforAfricanStudies:MakingAfrica’sWrittenHeritageVisible,”inLibrariesandArchivesintheDigitalAge,SusanL.Mizruchi,editor(forthcoming).

(WithEleniCastro) “Beyond African orality: Digital preservation of Mandinka ʿAjamī archives of Casamance,” History Compass. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12584.

“AjamiLiteraciesofWestAfrica,”inTracingLanguageMovementinAfrica,ErickaA.AlbaughandKathrynM.deLuna,editors(OxfordUniversityPress,2018),143-164.

“WestAfricanManuscriptsinArabicandAfricanLanguagesandDigitalPreservation,”inOxfordResearchEncyclopedias:AfricanHistory,ThomasSpear,editor,June2017.

“Afterword,”inAfricanAsylumataCrossroads:Activism,ExpertTestimony,andRefugeeRights,IrisBerger,BenjaminLawrence,TriciaRedekerHepner,andMeredithTerretta,editors(Athens:OhioUniversityPress,2015),247-256.“MuridAjamiSourcesofKnowledge:TheMythandtheReality,”inFromDusttoDigital:TenYearsoftheEndangeredArchivesProgramme,MajaKominko,editor(Cambridge,UK:OpenBookPublishers,2015),119-164.(WithAlexZito)“Sub-SaharanAfricanliterature,ʿAjamī,”inEncyclopaediaofIslamIII,GudrunKrämer,DenisMatringe,JohnNawas,andEverettRowson,editors(BrillOnline,2013).Reviewandupdateof“AfricanLanguagesandLiteratures:WestAfrica”(initiallywrittenbyMervynHiskettin1994),OxfordEncyclopediaoftheModernIslamicWorld(OxfordUniversityPress,2013).“PopularCultureinSenegal:BlendingtheSecularandtheReligious,”inMusic,PerformanceandAfricanIdentities,ToyinFalolaandTylerFleming,editors(NewYork:Routledge,2012),97-124.

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“MuridIdentityandWolofAjamiLiteratureinSenegal,”inDevelopment,ModernismandModernityinAfrica,AugustineAgwuele,editor(NewYork,NY:Routledge,2012),62-78.“AjamiScriptsintheSenegaleseSpeechCommunity,”JournalofArabic&IslamicStudies,Vol.10(1),2010,1-23.“Taboo-Racism:TheMouridePerspectiveonArabism,”ArenaJournal,Vol.,33-34,2010,236-253.“AhmaduBamba’sPedagogyandtheDevelopmentofAjamiLiterature,”AfricanStudiesReview,Vol.52(1),April2009,99-124.“ForensicLanguageAnalysisinAsylumApplicationsofAfricanRefugees:ChallengesandPromises,”inMigrationsandCreativeExpressionsinAfricaandtheAfricanDiaspora,NiyiAfolabi,ToyinFalola,andAderonkeA.Adesanya,editors(Durham,NC:CarolinaAcademicPress,2008),219-237.“Wolof,”inEncyclopediaofArabicLanguageandLinguistics,Vol.4(Leiden:Brill,2007),723-725(appearedonlinein2011).

“LoanwordsintheSenegaleseSpeechCommunity:TheirLinguisticFeaturesandSociolinguisticSignificance,”Language,CommunicationandInformation,Tome1,2006,103-113“Lesimplicationssociolinguistiquesdesempruntsduwolofaufrançais,”Safara:RevueInternationaledeLangues,LittératuresetCultures,2005,147-164.“LinguisticandSocioculturalHybridizationinSenegaleseUrbanSpaces,”inUrbanizationandAfricanCultures,ToyinFalolaandSteveSalm,editors(Durham,NC:CarolinaAcademicPress,2005),279-294.“EthnicIdentityandLinguisticHybridizationinSenegal,”InternationalJournaloftheSociologyofLanguage,Issue170,2004,95-111.

(WithDianaEadesetal.)“GuidelinesfortheUseofLanguageAnalysisinRelationtoQuestionsofNationalOrigininRefugeeCases,”TheInternationalJournalofSpeech,LanguageandtheLaw,Vol.11(2),2004,261-266.“TheSocialStatusofArabic,FrenchandEnglishintheSenegaleseSpeechCommunity,”LanguageVariationandChange,Vol.15,2003,351-368.“Fulani,”inEncyclopediaofTwentieth-CenturyAfricanHistory,PaulTiyambeZelezaandDicksonEyoh,editors(NewYork,NY:Routledge,2003),227-229.

“LinguisticResistanceintheMuridCommunityinSenegal,”JournalofMultilingualandMulticulturalDevelopment,Vol.23(3),2002,214-226.

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“LinguisticBorrowingasEvidenceoftheSocialHistoryoftheSenegaleseSpeechCommunity,”InternationalJournaloftheSociologyofLanguage,Vol.158,2002,37-51.“Lesvariablessociolinguistiquesdanslejournalsatiriquesénégalais:Lecafardlibéré,”TheFrenchReview:TheJournalofTheAmericanAssociationofTeachersofFrench,Vol.75(5),2002,914-924.“LexicalBorrowingsasPathwaystoSenegal’sPastandPresent,”inAfricanizingKnowledge:AfricanStudiesAcrosstheDisciplines,ToyinFalolaandChristianJennings,editors(NewBrunswick,NJ:TransactionPublishers,2002),125-147.“L'opposition[ɛ]-[e]ensyllabesouvertesdefindemotenfrançaisparisien:Étudeacoustiquepréliminaire,”inXXIVèmesJournéesd'ÉtudessurlaParole,Nancy,June24-27,2002,165-168(withZsuzsannaFagyalandSamiraHassa).

“Pulaar,”inEncyclopediaoftheWorld'sLanguages:PastandPresent,CarlRubino,editor(NewYork:H.W.Wilson,2001),572-575.“SociolinguisticMotivationsofLexicalBorrowingsinSenegal,”StudiesintheLinguisticSciences,Vol.30(2),2000,159-172.“SociolinguisticProfileoftheSenegaleseSpeechCommunity,”StudiesintheLinguisticSciences,Vol.29(1),1999,131-146.ReviewsandotherwritingsReviewofTheTrans-SaharanBookTrade:ManuscriptCulture,ArabicLiteracyandIntellectualHistoryinMuslimAfrica,inMedievalEncountersJournal:Jewish,ChristianandMuslimCultureinConfluenceandDialogue,Brill,Spring2018,335-355.“DecipheringWolofAjamiTexts,”BritishLibraryEndangeredArchivesBlog:http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/endangeredarchives/2016/01/deciphering-wolof-ajami-texts.html.

(WithDaiviRodima-Taylor)“RemittancesasSpiritualInvestment:ASenegalesePerspective,”inPerspectivesinFinancialInclusionSeries:AfricanDiasporaandRemittances(BostonUniversityCenterforFinance,LawandPolicy),October2015,5-6.“TraininginLessCommonlyTaughtLanguagesforthe21stCentury,”AfricanStudiesAssociation:http://www.africanstudies.org/blog?start=25[19March2014].“PastAchievementsandNewDirections,”inBostonUniversityAfricanStudiesCenterNewsletter,Issue3,Fall2013,9-11.

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“TheAfricanAjamiLibraryProject,”inWestAfricanResearchAssociationNewsletter,Fall2011/Spring2012,5.“Lecorpuswolofdelalittératuremouride:Unocéandesagesseetdebarakapourl’humanité,”inActesdu1erColloqueInternationalduGrandMagaldeToubasurleSoufisme,2012,172-185.“AfricanAjamiLibrary-AAL,”inBostonUniversityAfricanStudiesCenterNewsletter,Issue1,2011,6-11.ReviewofAnneStorch,SecretManipulations:LanguageandContextinAfrica(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2011),inJournalofSociolinguisticsVol.17(2),2013,247-250.“SampleAjamipageofSëriñMuusaaKa,”inTheHistoryofPeoples:RecastingthePast:TheUNESCOCourier,Number8,2009,10.“MyVisittoTimbuktu:TheCityofthe333Saints,”inWestAfricanResearchAssociationNewsletter,Fall2008,13.ReviewofBathieNgoyeThiam,Leparricide(Paris:L’Harmattan,2005),inTheFrenchReview:TheJournalofTheAmericanAssociationofTeachersofFrench,2007,Vol.80(4),958-959.“TheSecularUseofAjamiWritingsinSenegal,”inWestAfricanResearchAssociationNewsletter,Spring2005,17-18.“Arabic-basedWritingScriptsinSenegal,”inWestAfricanResearchAssociationNewsletter,Fall2004,13.

“ArtandCultureinWestAfricanSocieties,”inTheJapanWeek2003ProceedingsofSymposiaandSpecialLectures,WesternWashingtonUniversity,83-87.

(WithAblayeDiakitéandKébaTounkara),AGlossaryofMandinka,translatedfromEnglishtoFrench(Dakar,Senegal:UNICEF,1996),162pages.

ACADEMICCONFERENCES,LECTURES,ANDSCHOLARLYPANELS

(Invitedlecture),“BeyondAfricanOrality:AjamiTraditionsofMuslimAfrica,”TheFletcherSchoolofLawandDiplomacy,TuftsUniversity,Medford,MA,April12,2019.(Invitedlecture),“BeyondOrality:AjamiSourcesofKnowledgeinMuslimAfrica,”WesleyanUniversity,Middletown,CT,April4,2019.

(Invitedlecture),“AjamiSourcesandAfricanStudiesinthe21stCentury,”AssociationofAfricanStudiesProgramsSpringMeeting,JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudies,Washington,DC,March29,2019.

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(Invitedlecture),“TheOdysseyofAjamiandtheMuridiyya,”WesternWashingtonUniversity,Bellingham,WA,March11,2019.(Invitedlecture),“WestAfricanAjamiTraditions:LongueDuréeandLocalInnovations,”TheTransregionalPoliticsofLiteraryLanguage:ComparativeWorkAcrossAfricanandAsiansContexts,HarvardUniversity,Boston,MA,February,21,2019(Invitedlecture),“AjamiManuscriptsandtheIllusionofIlliteracyinMuslimAfrica,”CAORC-WARCFacultyDevelopmentSeminar,WestAfricanResearchCenter,Dakar,Senegal,January9,2019.(PanelChair),“IslaminAfrica:Sectarianism,Identity-makingandLocal/GlobalInfluences,”The61thAnnualMeetingoftheAfricanStudiesAssociation,Atlanta,Georgia,December1,2018.

(Invitedlecture),“ManuscriptsofMuslimAfrica:TheirWriters,Forms,andContents,”BritishLibrary,London,October1,2018.(Invitedlecture),“AjamiManuscriptsasMajorSourcesofAfricanKnowledgeSystems,”ReasonandEmbodiement,UniversitätTübingen,September28,2018.(Invitedlecture),“AfricanSourcesofKnowledgeinAjamiScript:TheCaseoftheMuridiyya,”UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles,May16,2018.

(Invitedlecture),“MuslimsBeyondtheArabWorld,”ComparativeApproachestotheLiteraturesofAfrica,theMiddleEast,andtheGlobalSouth,NewYorkUniversity,May7,2018.(Invitedlecture),“TheMeaningofArtsintheMuridiyyaSufiOrderofSenegal,”SufiStoriesofWestAfrica:Senegal’sMuridiyya,UniversityofColorado,Boulder,April12,2018.(Keynotelecture),“Non-EurophoneSourcesandKnowledgeProductionaboutAfricainthe21stCentury,”GraduateStudentsinAfricanStudies8thAnnualSymposium,IndianaUniversity,March24,2018.(Invitedlecture)“AfricanOdysseys:AfricanLanguages,ArabicScripts,andEpicPoetryinWestAfrica,”VernacularIslamWorkshop,UniversityofMichigan,March6,2018.(Invitedlecture)“TheOdysseyofAjamiinMuslimAfrica,”AfricanStudiesCenter,UniversityofFlorida,Gainesville,March2,2018.(Invitedlecture)“MuslimsbeyondtheArabWorld:Language,Arts,andMusicinSenegal,”ForumforScholarsandPublics,DukeUniversity,January30,2018.

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(PanelChair)“AjamiSourcesofSub-SaharanAfrica,”The60thAnnualMeetingoftheAfricanStudiesAssociation,Chicago,IL,November17,2017.(Invitedlecture)“AjamiDigitalScholarship:ChallengesandOpportunities,”RecordingLives:LibrariesandArchivesintheDigitalAge,BostonUniversityCenterfortheHumanities,October6,2017.(Keynotelecture)“LanguageAnalysisfortheDeterminationofOrigin(LADO):ANewSubfieldofForensicLinguistics,”EducationandAfrica’sTransformation,AdeyemiCollegeofEducation,Ondo,Nigeria,July3,2017.

(Invitedlecture)“Beyond‘Europhone’Sources:AfricanSourcesofKnowledgeinAjamiandIndigenousScripts,”EpistemologyandMethodology:SeminaronDecoloniality,FacultyDistinguishedPersonalityLecture,UniversityofIbadan,Nigeria,June30,2017.

(Invitedlecture)“AfricanLanguagesinKnowledgeProductionaboutAfricainthe21stCentury:ChallengesandOpportunities,”DistinguishedLectureSeries,LagosStateUniversity,Nigeria,June28,2017.(Invitedlecture)“ForensicLinguisticsandAsylumSeeking:LanguageAnalysisfortheDeterminationofOrigin(LADO),”RhodesCollege,April26,2017.

DiscussantProfessorOusmaneKane’sbookBeyondTimbuktu:AnIntellectualHistoryofMuslimAfrica(HarvardUniversityPress,2016),CenterfortheStudyofWorldReligions,HarvardDivinitySchool,April3,2017.

(Keynotelecture)“LanguagesandScriptsasPathwaysintoAfricanEpistemologies,”The17thAnnualAfricaConferenceattheUniversityofTexasatAustin,Austin,TX,April1,2017.(Keynotelecture)“TheAfricanLibrary,theEurophone,andtheNon-EurophoneIntellectuals,”TheFirstConferenceoftheNortheastConsortiumforProgramsinAfricanLanguages,ColumbiaUniversity,March25,2017.

(Invitedlecture)“AjamiSourcesofKnowledge:TheCaseoftheMurdiyyaTradition,”YaleUniversityLibrary'sSCOPAgroup,YaleAfricanStudentsAssociation,andYaleMuslimStudentsAssociation,YaleUniversity,February23,2017.

(Invitedlecture)“LanguageDetectives:ForensicLinguisticsinAfricanAsylumCasesinEurope,”SchulzeSpeakerSeries,UniversityofNorthernColorado,Greeley,COJanuary17,2017.“IntellectualSelf-DeportationinPost-ColonialAfrica,”The59thAnnualMeetingoftheAfricanStudiesAssociation,Washington,DC,December3,2016.“AjamiTextsasSourcesofAfricanHistory,”The59thAnnualMeetingoftheAfricanStudiesAssociation,Washington,DC,December1,2016.

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(Keynotelecture)“LanguageAnalysisinAsylumCasesandAfricanAjamiLiteratures,”TheSouthEast,AfricanLanguages,andLiteraturesForum(SEALLF)Conference,Winston-SalemStateUniversity,NorthCarolina,September30,2016.(Invitedlecture),“Identifying,CollectingandStudyingAjamiManuscripts,”AjamiWorkshop,CentrefortheStudyofManuscriptCultures,UniversitätHamburg,Germany,October24-26,2016.

“AjamiSourcesandKnowledgeProductionaboutAfricainthe21stCentury,”Innovation,Transformation,andSustainableFuturesinAfricaConferenceorganizedbytheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation(AAA),theAfricanStudiesAssociation(ASA),theCouncilfortheDevelopmentofSocialScienceResearchinAfrica(CODESRIA),andtheWestAfricanResearchCenter(WARC),Novotel,Dakar,June2,2016.“VisualAestheticsoftheWordintheMuridiyya,”SacredWord:TheChangingMeaningsinTextualCulturesofIslamicAfrica,InstitutefortheStudyofIslamicThoughtinAfrica(ISITA),NorthwesternUniversity,Evanston,April21,2016.

“AjamiLiteraturesofEastandWestAfricaRoundtable,”The58thAnnualMeetingoftheAfricanStudiesAssociation,SanDiego,California,November20,2015.“AgenciesofCulturalPatrimony:ElitesandCulturalArchivesinAfricaRoundtable,”The58thAnnualMeetingoftheAfricanStudiesAssociation,SanDiego,California,November20,2015.

(Invitedlecture)“EmergentFrameworksinLanguageandLiteratureStudiesRoundtable,”BeyondMedievalandModern:RethinkingGlobalParadigmsofPoliticalEconomyandCulture,aSawyerSeminarfundedbytheAndrewW.MellonFoundation,UniversityofMassachusetts-Amherst,Thursday,October22,2015.(Invitedlecture)“AjamiLiteraciesofAfrica:TheirEmergence,ExpansionandFunctions,”MappingLanguageMovementinAfrica,BowdoinCollege,September25,2015.(Invitedlecture)“SanctifiedSuffering:TheResponsetoViolenceinMuridAjamiPoetry,”IslamandPeace:PerspectivesfromAfricanMuslimNonviolenceTraditionsConference,ColumbiaUniversity,September12,2015.“AShibbolethTestforAsylumSeekers:LanguageAnalysisinAsylumCases,”NationalCouncilofLessCommonlyTaughtLanguages(NCOLCTL)23rdAnniversary,Hilton,WashingtonDullesAirport,April24,2015.

“AjamiWritingsasMajorSourcesofAfricanKnowledge:TheCaseoftheMuridtradition,”ThePrinceAlwaleedBinTalalIslamicStudiesProgramFacultySeminarSeries,HarvardUniversity,November12,2014.

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(Keynotelecture)“AjamiSourcesofKnowledgeandtheMythofIlliteracyofAfrica,”BostonPan-AfricanForum4thAnnualMeeting,UMassBoston,October24,2014.“Ajamisources:‘WritingsofIlliterateAfricans,’”AfricanLanguagesintheDisciplinesConference,HarvardUniversity,April24,2014.“IslamandAfricanSourcesofKnowledgeinAjamiScript,”InstitutefortheStudyofMuslimSocietiesandCivilizationsFacultyLunchTalk,BostonUniversity,April7,2014.Languageexpertinthe“AsylumandExpertTestimonyPanel,”The56thAnnualMeetingoftheAfricanStudiesAssociation,Baltimore,Maryland,November24,2013.(Invitedlecture)“Africa’sSourcesofKnowledgeinAjamiScripts,”ClarkeForumforContemporaryIssues,DickinsonCollege,March21,2013.(Invitedlecture),“EnhancingtheReliabilityofLanguageAnalysisfortheDeterminationofOrigin,”DepartmentofFrenchandtheSchoolofLiteratures,Cultures,andLinguistics,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,February13,2012.(Invitedlecture)“AfricanLanguagesinHigherEducation:ChallengesandOpportunities,”ESTEL:ÉcoleSupérieuredesMétiersduManagementetdesLangues,Dakar,Senegal,December21,2012.“Language,AsylumLaw,andInternationalMigration,”AfricanLanguagesintheDisciplinesConference,HarvardUniversity,April20,2012.“Lecorpuswolofdelalittératuremouride:Unocéandesagesseetdebarakapourl’humanité,”1erColloqueInternationalduGrandMagaldeToubasurleSoufisme,HotelMéridien-Président,Dakar,Senegal,December23-26,2011.(Invitedlecture)“EnhancingtheReliabilityofLADO:ExamplesfromFulaandWolofCases,”ResearchSeminar:LanguageAnalysisofAsylumApplicants:Foundations,GuidelinesandBestPractice,fundedbyUKEconomic&SocialResearchCouncil,UniversityofEssex,November26,2011.(Invitedlecture)“AjamiLiteraryTraditionsofWestAfrica,”WestAfricanMuslimsandtheirContributiontoU.S.CultureSymposium,HowardUniversity,October11,2011.“AjamiLiteracyandtheMythofIlliteracyinIslamizedAfrica,”AfricanLanguagesintheDisciplinesConference,HarvardUniversity,April22,2011.(Invitedlecture)“AfricanSourcesofKnowledgeinNon-LatinScripts:TheCaseofWolofAjamiinSenegambia,”AfricaAwareness:DistinguishedLecture,BridgewaterStateUniversity,March24,2011.

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(Invitedlecture)“OpeningtheAjamiWorldtotheWorld:WestAfricanAjamiSourcesofKnowledge,”DepartmentofFrenchandtheDepartmentofLinguistics,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,March10,2011.(Invitedlecture)“WestAfricanAjamiIntellectualTraditions:TheCaseofWolofal,”CosmopolitanismandDiversityintheAfricanWorldLectureSeries,KentStateUniversity,January25-26,2011.(Invitedlecture)“AjamiLiteraryTraditionsofSahelianAfrica:TheCaseofWolofal,”CenterforMiddleEasternandNorthAfricanStudies(CMENAS),UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor,January12,2011.(Invitedlecture)“WolofaluSoxnaMaimunatuMbàkke[TheWolofAjamiPoetryofaSufiWoman:SoxnaMaimunatuMbàkke],”SufiLiteratureofSenegambia:TextsandContextsWorkshop,organizedbyNorthwesternUniversity'sInstitutefortheStudyofIslamicThoughtinAfricaandWARC(WestAfricanResearchCenter),Dakar,Senegal,December15-16,2010.(Panelchair)“InnovationsinInstitutionsofHigherEducationinAfrica,”TheSompatt2010AcademicForum,BostonUniversityAfricanStudiesCenter,October23,2010.“WolofCulturalAutonomyandAjamiLiteratureinMuridCommunities,”Race,Ethnicity,andPlaceConnference,BinghamtonUniversity,October6-8,2010.(Invitedlecture),“InternationalMigrationsandtheNewFieldofForensicLinguistics,”SéminaireInternational:Regardscroiséssurlesmigrationsfémininesinternationalesetlaprotectionsociale,UniversitéGastonBerger,Senegal,June29-30,2010.(Panelchair)“CultureandSocietySession,”GoodNewsfromAfrica,PardeeCenterfortheStudyofLonger-RangeFuture,BostonUniversity,April16,2010.(Invitedlecture)“AfricanAjamiSourcesofKnowledgeandContemporaryAfricanStudiesScholarship,”Crossroads:Migration,Language,andLiteratureinAfrica,CenterforAfricanStudies,RutgersUniversity,February26,2010.

“TheSufiOrdersofSenegal,”FulbrightHayslectureto16AmericanteacherstravelingtoSenegal,sponsoredbyWARA(WestAfricanResearchAssociation)andtheUSDepartmentofEducation,BostonUniversity,June27,2009.(Keynotelecture)“AfricanLanguages&LinguisticsandKnowledgeProductionaboutAfricainthe21stCentury,”The40thAnnualConferenceonAfricanLinguistics,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,April9,2009.

“MuridWolofAjami:theScholars,theirWorkandResearchMethods,”The51stAnnualMeetingoftheAfricanStudiesAssociation,Chicago,November13-16,2008.

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“Lespotentialitésderechercheetd’enseignementenajamienAfriquedel’ouest:LecasdelatraditionwolofalauSénégal,”BibliothèquedeManuscritsMammaHaidara,Timbuktu,Mali,July28,2008.TriporganizedandfundedbytheU.S.EmbassiesinDakarandBamako,MalithroughtheFulbrightExchangeProgram.

(Invitedlecture)“Lesystèmeéducatifaméricain:Quellesperspectivesetcontraintespourlemodèlesénégalais?,”WestAfricanResearchCenter,Dakar,Senegal,June5,2008.TalksponsoredbythePublicAffairsOfficeoftheU.S.EmbassyinSenegal.(InvitedlecturewithJeanneL.Clark,ViceConsuloftheUSEmbassyinSenegal)“ÉtudesauxU.S.A,”CESAG:CentreAfricaind’ÉtudesSupérieuresenGestion,Dakar,Senegal,April23,2008.TalksponsoredbythePublicAffairsOfficeoftheU.S.EmbassyinSenegal.(InvitedlecturewithJosephW.Lanning,WorldEducationFundDirector)“Lesstratégiesderéussitedansleprocessussélectifd’inscriptiondanslesuniversitésaméricaines,”UniversitéGastonBergerdeSaint-Louis,Senegal,November14,2007.TalksponsoredbythePublicAffairsOfficeoftheU.S.EmbassyinSenegal.

“PopularCultureinSenegal:BlendingtheSecularandtheReligious,”PopularCultureinAfricaConference,UniversityofTexasatAustin,March30-April1,2007.“AjamiinAfrica:theResearchandEducationalPotentials,”The49thAnnualMeetingoftheAfricanStudiesAssociation,SanFrancisco,November16-19,2006.“EnhancingtheReliabilityandObjectivityofLanguageAnalysesinAsylumCases:AnEnglish-SpeakingAsylumSeekerClaimingtoComefromSierraLeone,”SecondEuropeanInternationalAssociationofForensicLinguistsConference,InstitutUniversitarideLingüsticaAplicada,Barcelona,September14-16,2006.

“LanguageAnalysisinAsylumCases:ARecentDevelopmentinForensicLinguistics,”DistinguishedLectureSeries,WesternWashingtonUniversity,April12,2006.“ForensicLanguageAnalysisinAsylumApplicationsofAfricanRefugees:ChallengesandPromises,”ConferenceonMovements,MigrationsandDisplacementsinAfrica,UniversityofTexasatAustin,March24-262006.“IssuesinUsingSociolinguisticEvidencetoDetermineNationality:TheCaseofaSierraLeoneanFulaAsylumSeeker,”LanguageandLaw2005Conference:EastMeetsWest,UniversityofLodz,Poland,September13,2005.“ForensicLinguistics:AQuestionandAnswerIntroductiontoaRapidlyGrowingField,”TheLinguisticsSpeakerSeries,WesternWashingtonUniversity,Fall2005.

“Arabic-basedScriptsinSenegaleseMuslimCommunities:TheCaseofWolofal,”AnnualMeetingofMichiganLinguisticSociety,UniversityofMichigan-Flint,October16,2004.

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“WolofVariationandChangeintheSenegaleseSpeechCommunity,”The35thAnnualConferenceonAfricanLinguistics,HarvardUniversity,April02-04,2004.“Arabic-basedScriptsintheSenegaleseSpeechCommunity,”TheLinguisticsSpeakerSeries,WesternWashingtonUniversity,Fall2004.“LesvariétéslinguistiquesdufrançaisauSénégaletleursimplicationssociolinguistiques,”AssociationforFrenchLanguageStudiesSymposium,UniversitédeTours,France,September25-27,2003.“LinguisticandSocio-culturalHybridizationinSenegaleseUrbanSpaces,”TheAfricanUrbanSpaces:HistoryandCultureConference,UniversityofTexasatAustin,March28-30,2003.“ArtandCultureinWestAfricanSocieties,”TheJapanWeek2003SymposiaandSpecialLectures,WesternWashingtonUniversity,April28-May1,2003.“LanguageandIdentityinSenegal,”InternationalConferenceonLanguageandIdentity,BaruchCollege,NewYork,October2-5,2002.(WithZsuzannaFagyalandSamiraHassa)“OntheProsodicConditioningofthe[ɛ]-[e]MergerinOpen-syllablesinParisianFrench,”NWAV(NewWaysofAnalyzingVariation),NorthCarolinaStateUniversity,October2001.“Learners’IndividualDifferencesinLanguageClassrooms,”The5thAnnualAfricanLanguageTeachersAssociationConference,UniversityofWisconsin,Madison,Spring2001.“LexicalBorrowingsasPathwaystoSenegal’sPastandPresent,”PathwaystoAfrica’sPastConference,UniversityofTexasatAustin,Spring2001.“LexicalBorrowingsasSociolinguisticVariables,”The25thAnnualPennsylvaniaLinguisticColloquium,DepartmentofLinguistics,UniversityofPennsylvania,Spring2001.“TheSociolinguisticMotivationsofLexicalBorrowingsinSenegal,”TheThursdayLinguisticSeminar,DepartmentofLinguistics,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,Fall2000.“ReligiousandLinguisticBehaviorsasMeansofAnti-ColonialResistanceinSub-SaharanAfrica:TheCaseoftheMurids,”The31stAnnualConferenceonAfricanLinguistics,BostonUniversity,Spring2000.“Lesvariablessociolinguistiquesdanslejournalsatiriquesénégalais:Lecafardlibéré,”The3rdUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-ChampaignGraduateStudentConferenceonAfricanandAfricanDiasporaIssues,Spring2000.

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“LinguisticResistanceasanExpressionofPolitical,CulturalandReligiousResistanceinSenegal,”TheAfricanStudiesInternationalConference,MichiganStateUniversity,Fall1999.“SociolinguisticProfileofSenegal,”TheGraduateStudentsConference,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,Spring1998.“WolofNativeSpeakers'ProblemsintheAcquisitionofEnglishSituation-boundUtterances,”InternationalPragmaticConference,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,Fall1997.“MultilingualisminAfrica:TheExampleofSenegal,”The15thAnnualForeignLanguagesDays,UniversityofMontana,Missoula,Spring1997.

WORKSINAJAMISTUDIESANDDIGITALHUMANITIES,2009-PRESENT

§ AfricanAjamiLibrary(AAL):FounderandleaderoftheAfricanAjamiLibrary,whichwillhostbySeptember2019over30,000pagesofAfricanmanuscriptsneverbeforeaccessedbyWesternscholars.Thesitecurrentlyhosts5,400pagesofWolofAjamitexts,over2,000pagesofHausaandFuutaJalonFulaAjamitexts,andover6,000pagesofMalagasySorabeAjamitexts.Over17,000pagesofArabicandAjamimanuscriptsofMandinkascholarsand1,000pagesofKanuriandFulfuldewillbeaddedtothesitebySeptember2019(https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/1896).

§ CasesStudiesinColonialismLectureSeries:Senegal,AfricanStudiesCenterOutreachProgram,October20-21,2016:http://www.bu.edu/africa/outreach/multimedia/.

§ AjamiWorkbooks:LedtheefforttodevelopinstructionalmaterialsforAjamiliteracy.SeeFallouNgomandAlexZito,DivingIntotheOceanofWolofal:TheFirstWorkbookinWolofal—WolofalAjami(Boston,MA:AfricanStudiesCenter,BostonUniversity,2010);andMustaphaKurfi,APracticalGuidetoLearningHausaAjami,supervisedbyFallouNgomandPeterQuella(Boston,MA:AfricanStudiesCenter,September2017).

§ AfricanProverbsProject:LedtheefforttodevelopmultimediainstructionalmaterialsforadvancedAmharic,Hausa,Wolof,IsiZulu,IsiXhosa,andSwahililearners(sixprioritylanguagesasdefinedbytheUSDepartmentofEducation).See:http://www.bu.edu/africa/alp/african-proverbs-project/.

§ The200-WordMultimediaProject:Ledtheefforttodevelopmultimediainstructionalmaterialstoimprovefirst-yearstudents’recognitionandpronunciationof200commonkeywordsacrossoursixpriorityAfricanlanguages.See:http://www.bu.edu/200word/.

§ AfricanLanguageMaterialsArchive(ALMA):ContributedtotheworkofALMA.See:http://alma.matrix.msu.edu/alma-authors#ajami.

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§ Africa’sSourcesofKnowledge(ASK-DL):CollaboratedwiththedirectoroftheAfricanLanguageProgramatHarvardUniversitytodocumentAfricanlanguageswritteninAjamiscript.Seehttp://www.ask-dl.fas.harvard.edu/.

§ AfricanOnlineDigitalLibrary(AODL):CollaboratedwithMATRIXatMichiganStateUniversityandWestAfricanResearchAssociationatBostonUniversitytodevelopmultimediagalleriesexemplifyingAjamiliteraciesandpeacefulMuslimpracticesinSenegambia.See:http://aodl.org/.

RESEARCHANDPROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE

§ FieldtripsinWolof,Mandinka,andFulanicommunitiesofWestAfrica,2004-present§ ParticipantinTheFifthInternationalSummerSchoolinForensicLinguisticAnalysisat

theUniversityofLodz,Poland,September7-11,2005§ ResearchAssistantinAcousticPhonologyusingCSL(ComputerizedSpeech

Laboratory)tostudyongoingchangesinFrenchphonology,DepartmentofFrench,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,Spring&Summer2001

§ VolitionInc.FreelanceFrenchLanguageTesterresponsibleforidentifyingungrammaticalstructures,Fall2001

§ DissertationfieldworkinSaint-Louis,Senegaltointerviewandrecord200Wolofspeakers,describethephonological,lexicalandotherlinguistictraitsintheirspontaneousspeech,andstudytheirsociolinguisticsignificance,Senegal,Fall2000

§ CertificateofCompletionofStudyinAfricanLanguageProgramAdministration,deliveredbytheNationalAfricanLanguageResourceCenter(NALRC)andtheAfricanLanguageTeachersAssociation(ALTA),UniversityofWisconsin,Madison,July2000

§ FreelanceAbstractorforLinguisticsandLanguageBehaviorsAbstracts,CambridgeScientificAbstracts,WesternRegionOffice,SanDiegoCalifornia,Summer2001

§ InternshipinLinguisticCompetenceinSixSenegaleseNationalLanguages,1995-1996§ MAthesisfieldworkintheRepublicofGuineaBissautocollectMandinkaspontaneous

speechandcompareitwiththatofspeakersinZiguinchor,Senegal,andtowriteacomparativephonologicaldescriptionofthelanguage,Summer1995

§ ParticipantinAdvancedandVocationalTraininginForeignLanguageTeachingMethods,CentredeLinguistiqueAppliquéedeDakar(CLAD),Dakar,Senegal,1995

FELLOWSHIPSANDGRANTS

§ PI,AjamiLiteratureandtheExpansionofLiteracyandIslam:TheCaseofWestAfrica,NationalEndowmentfortheHumanities:CollaborativeResearchGrants.Duration:09/01/2019-12/31/2022.Amountawarded:$250,000.

§ PI,BostonUniversityNationalResourceCenterforAfrica,USDepartmentofEducation.Duration:08/15/2018-08/14/2022.Amountawarded:$994,000.

§ PI,BostonUniversityForeignLanguageandAreaStudiesprogram,USDepartmentofEducation.Duration:08/15/2018-08/14/2022.Amountawarded:$1,212,000.

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§ PI,ProjectEAP1042:DigitalPreservationofMandinkaAjamiMaterialsofCasamance,Senegal,BritishLibrary.Duration:012/01/2018-03/31/2019.Amountawarded:£44,000($57,000).

§ PI,ProjectEAP334:DigitalPreservationofWolofAjamiManuscriptsofSenegal,

BritishLibrary.Duration:07/10/2011-02/09/2012.Amountawarded:£20,630($33,307.16).

§ GuggenheimFellowship,JohnSimonGuggenheimMemorialFoundation,01/10/2012-12/31/2012.Amountawarded:$40,000.

§ FulbrightLecturingandResearchFellowship,USDepartmentofState.Duration:2007-2008.Awardedamount:$71,600.

§ ACLS/SSRC/NEHInternationalAreaStudiesPost-doctoralFellowship,AmericanCouncilofLearnedSocieties.Duration:Fall2004.Amountawarded:$19,500.

AWARDSANDHONORS

US-basedHonors

§ PhiBetaKappaHonoraryFacultyMember,BUChapter,inductedonMay18,2018§ 2018Metcalfawardnominee,BU’shighestrecognitionforexcellenceinteaching§ 2017winneroftheMelvilleHerskovitsPrizeforthebestbookinAfricanstudiesin

EnglishforMuslimsbeyondtheArabWorld(OxfordUniversityPress,2016).§ NelsonMandelaDistinguishedAfricanistAward,UniversityofTexas,Austin,2017§ SpecialRecognitionAwardinAppreciationofOutstandingService&Commitment

totheAfricanStudiesAssociationBoardofDirectors,November2015.§ PlaqueinRecognitionofOutstandingScholarshipintheAreaofAfricanLanguages,

History,andCultureandLeadershipandCommitmenttothePromotionofPanAfricanistIdeals,BostonPanAfricanForum,Inc.,October24,2014.

§ JohnSimonGuggenheimFellowship2011(onleave:Spring2012-Spring2013)§ NominatedandelectedasmemberoftheboardofdirectorsoftheAfricanStudies

Association(ASA),theflagshiporganizationforAfricanistscholars,2012-2014§ FulbrightLecturing&ResearchawardtoSenegalfortheacademicyear2007-2008§ AmericanCouncilofLearnedSocietiesInternationalAreaStudiesPost-doctoral

FellowshiptostudyAjamiliteracyinSenegambia,Fall2004§ WestAfricanResearchAssociation(WARA)Post-doctoralFellowshiptoconduct

fieldworkinSenegambia,WestAfrica,2004§ PhiKappaPhi,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbanaChampaign,initiatedin2001

InternationalHonors

§ EditorialAdvisoryBoard,OxfordResearchEncyclopedias(ORE),2016-present§ InternationalAdvisoryCommitteeMember,IslamicAfrica,Fall2015-present

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§ “MuridAjamiSourcesofKnowledge:TheMythandtheReality”wasoneofthe19peer-reviewedarticlesselected(outof244projects)tohighlightthesignificanceoftheworkssupportedbytheBritishLibrary/ARCADIAEndangeredArchivesProgrammesinceitsinception

§ InvitedtoserveintheAdvisoryBoardoftheLanguage&AsylumResearchGroup(LARG),basedattheUniversityofEssex,UK,sinceFall2011

§ CertificateofRecognitionforOutstandingPerformanceasaFulbrightScholar,CollegeofArtsandSciences,UniversitéGastonBerger,Senegal,July2008.

COURSESTAUGHT

AtBostonUniversity

§ AN312-PeoplesandCulturesofAfrica§ AN327-IslaminAfrica§ AN521-Sociolinguistics§ AN524-LanguageContactinAfrica§ AN532-LiteracyandIslaminAfrica

AtUniversitéGastonBergerofSaint-Louis,Senegal

§ SeminarinLanguageVariations§ SeminarinPhoneticsandPhonology§ SeminarinSociolinguistics§ SeminarinStructuresofAfricanLanguages§ SeminarinSyntax

AtWesternWashingtonUniversity

§ FrenchPhoneticsandlanguage§ GenerativePhonology§ SeminarinForensicLinguistics§ SeminarinSociolinguistics§ SeminarintheHistoryofFrench

SERVICE

ServicetoBostonUniversity

§ Director,BUAfricanStudiesCenter,overseesallaspectsofcenter’smanagementandgrants,anditsteaching,research,andservicemissions,Fall2017-present

§ Chair,OutreachManagerSearchCommittee,AfricanStudiesCenter,Spring2019§ BUFulbrightStudentProgramReviewCommittee,Fall2018-present§ MLK&Jr.andWhitneyYoungFellowshipCommittee,Spring2014-Present§ AfricanStudiesCenterFinancialAidCommittee,Fall2009-Present.

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§ MemberoftheExecutive,BUCenterfortheHumanities(BUCH),Fall2017-Present§ BULibrarianSearchAdvisoryCommitteeMember,Fall2017-Spring2018§ Chair,AfricanStudiesCenter’sAssistantDirectorsearchcommittee,Fall2017§ SearchCommittee,WeinChairinAfricanAmericanStudies,Fall2016-Spring2017§ GraduateAdmissionandAidCommittee,Anthropology,2010-2017§ BostonUniversityAlumniAssociationlecture,KatzenbergCenter,April19,2017§ SocialSciencesCurriculumCommittee,CollegeofArtsandSciences,Fall2014§ SearchCommitteeMemberforaEuropeanistAnthropologist,Fall2010§ SearchCommitteeMemberforanAfricanistAnthropologist,Fall2009§ InitiatedthesigningoftheMOUbetweenBostonUniversity/GastonBerger

UniversityofSaint-Louis,SenegaltofacilitatefacultyresearchandenableourFLASfellowstoparticipateinintensivelanguageprogramsinSenegal,Spring2009

§ SearchCommitteeforAfricanStudiesCenterDirector,Fall2008-Spring2009§ CollegeofArtsandSciencesLecturerPromotionCommittee,Fall2008

DissertationCommitteesandOtherExams

§ PhDQualifyingExamCommittee,MargaretRowley,Ethnomusicology,Spring2019§ DissertationDefenseCommittee,SarahWestwood,History,May2,2018§ DissertationDefenseCommittee,MustaphaH.Kurfi,Sociology,March19,2018§ ProspectusDefenseCommittee,ClaireS.Lim,PoliticalScience,May30,017§ ProspectusDefenseCommittee,MimiStith,Anthropology,September3,2015§ DissertationDefenseCommittee,LynseyFarrel,Anthropology,May11,2015§ DissertationAdvisorandfirstreader,AlexZito,UniversityProfessorsProgram,

dissertationdefendedonNovember16,2011§ MandinkaMALanguageExam,JustinTinsey,InternationalRelations,Fall2010§ PulaarPhDLanguageExam,SarahWestwood,History,Fall2010§ DissertationDefenseCommittee,NicoleHayes,Anthropology,Fall2010§ DissertationDefenseCommittee,ShelbyCarpenter,Anthropology,Summer2010§ ProspectusDefenseCommittee,AlexZito,UniversityProf.Program,Spring2009§ ProspectusDefenseCommittee,AriannaFogelman,Anthropology,Fall2009

ServicetoWesternWashingtonUniversity

§ MemberoftheCollegeCurriculumCommittee,2006-2007§ MemberoftheFacultyAffairsCouncil(FAC),Fall2004-2006§ AdhocBudgetCommitteeoftheFacultyAffairsCouncil,Winter2004-2005§ MemberoftheDiversityAchievementAwardCommittee,Spring2004-2005§ NewFacultyOrientationTourLeader,Fall2003§ AlternateMemberoftheStudentAcademicGrievanceBoard,Winter2004§ ParticipantintheTeaching-LearningAcademy(TLA),Fall2003

ServicetotheDepartmentofModern&ClassicalLanguages

§ AdvisorforFrenchMajors/Minors,academicyear,2006-2007§ MemberofThesisCommitteesdealingwithWestAfrica,2005-2006

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§ MemberoftheActivitiesCommittee,2005-2006§ MemberoftheOrganizingCommittee,18thNorthAmericanConferenceonChinese

Linguistics(NACCL18),June2006§ ParticipantinWesternPreviewtopresentinformationabouttheDepartmentof

ModernandClassicalLanguagestostudentsandtheirparents,April2005§ MemberoftheAdhocCommitteefortheInterlinguaNewsletter,Spring2004§ Mentoringalimitedtermfaculty,Winterquarter2003§ TemporarilycoordinatingfirstyearFrenchclasses,Winter2003§ Helpedcontactandbringspeakersoncampus,Spring2003§ Supervisedastudent’sprojectonLanguageandEthnicity,Fall2003§ SupervisedseveralundergraduatestudentsmajoringinFrench&Linguisticsto

preparetheirapplicationsforgraduatestudiesinFrench&Linguistics,2002-2007ServicetotheProfession

§ AdHocCommittee,ASABestbookprize,Fall-Present§ Externalreviewerforaseniorfacultyabove-scalepromotion,UCLA,August2018§ Externalreviewerforapromotioncase,UniversityofFlorida,July2018§ Programco-chair,AfricaintheWorld:ShiftingBoundariesandKnowledge

Production,jointlyorganizedbyAAAandASA,Johannesburg,SA,2017-2018§ EditorialReviewBoard,AfricanStudiesReview,January2018-December2020§ AdvisoryBoard,Language&AsylumResearchGroup(LARG),Fall2011-Present§ AdvisoryBoard,AfricanLanguageMaterialsArchive(ALMA),2005-Present§ AmericanAnthropologicalAssociation(AAA)andAfricanStudiesAssociation

(ASA)PlanningMeetingforSouthAfrica2018,Baltimore,May11,2017§ MemberoftheSteeringCommitteeandoneofthefoundingmembersofIslamin

AfricaStudiesGroup(IASG),December3,2016-November2017§ EditorialBoardofDiasporicAfricaPress,Fall2011-Present§ ExternalreviewertoevaluatethefederallyfundedTitleVIAfricanLanguage

ProgramatHowardUniversity,March9-10,2016§ LedBostonUniversity’steamtohosttheNortheastRegionalConsortiumof

ProgramsinAfricanLanguages(NERCPAL),April12,2014,andFebruary26-27,2016(Participants:Columbia,Cornell,Harvard,Howard,Princeton,andYale).

§ BoardofDirectorsofAfricanStudiesAssociation(ASA),2012to2014§ WestAfricanResearchAssociationFinance/DevelopmentCommittee,Spring2013§ ReviewedabstractsforALTA(AfricanLanguageTeachersAssociation)Annual

Conference,January8-11,2011§ SearchCommitteeforaCoordinatoroftheLibraryofCongressWestAfrican

AcquisitionsPilotProject,December2010§ AdvisoryBoard,NationalAfricanLanguageResourceCenter,March2010-Present§ FulbrightScholarResourcePersontoshareexperiencewith66outgoingFulbright

lecturersandresearchers,June25-26,2009§ EditorialBoard,CarolinaStudiesonAfricaandtheBlackWorld,2009-Present§ FellowshipCommittee,WestAfricanResearchAssociation(WARA),2008-2009§ BoardofDirectors,WestAfricanResearchAssociation(WARA),2006-2009

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ExternalReviewsforJournals,Publishers,andProfessionalOrganizations

§ ReviewforOxfordUniversityPress,May27,2019§ ReviewarticlefortheAfricanStudiesReview,March31,2019§ ReviewedbookmanuscriptforUniversityofMichiganPress,January27,2019§ Reviewedabstractsfor2018ASA/AAAconference,Joburg,SAFebruary18,2018§ ReviewedforOxfordResearchEncyclopedias:AfricanHistory,August5,2017§ ReviewedbookproposalforCambridgeUniversityPress,June4,2017§ ReviewedAbstractsfortheGermanicSocietyforForensicLinguistics,April3,2017§ ReviewedforRevueInternationaledeLangues,LittératuresetCultures,Fall2016§ ReviewedforBloomsburyPublishing,Fall2016§ ReviewedforIslamicLiteratures:TextsandStudiesSeries,Brill,Fall2016§ ReviewedforPalgraveMacmillan,Summer11,2014§ ReviewedforthejournalAfricaToday,Spring2011§ ReviewedforthejournalIslamicAfrica,Spring2011§ ReviewedfortheJournalofAfricanLanguageLearningandTeaching,2010-2011§ ReviewedforthejournalHistoryCompass,Summer2010§ ReviewedfortheCanadianJournalofAfricanStudies,Fall2010§ Reviewed40thAnnualConferenceonAfricanLinguisticsProceedings,Spring2010§ ReviewedforUniversityofRochesterPress,Spring2009§ ReviewedfortheJournalofAfricanLanguagesandLinguistics,Winter2007§ ReviewerfortheNationalAfricanLanguageResourceCenter,2002

ExternalReviewsforFoundationsandGovernmentAgencies

§ ReviewedtheUSCensusBureau'sclassificationlistfortheBlack/AfricanAmericanpopulationandmaderecommendationsforimprovement,September4,2014

§ ReviewedforNationalResearchFoundation(NRF),SouthAfrica,August29,2014§ ReviewedforSocialSciences&HumanitiesResearchCouncilofCanada(SSHRC),

July18,2009,andJanuary28,2014§ InvitedasaLanguageExpertbyLINGUA,aunitoftheSwissgovernment

specializedinLADO(LanguageAnalysisfortheDeterminationofOrigin),FederalBureauforMigration,Bern,Switzerland,September17-22,2006andJuly29-August7,2013

§ ReviewedfortheCouncilforInternationalExchangeofScholarsfortheselectionofFulbrightscholarsinLinguisticsinthe2011,2012and2013competitions

§ ReviewedfortheNationalScienceFoundation(NSF),August8-26,2012§ ReviewedfortheUSDepartmentofEducationTitleVIprogram:International

ResearchandStudiesFieldReader,March1-12,2010

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SELECTEDWORKSFEATUREDINTHEMEDIA§ “DigitalPreservationofMandinkaAjamiMaterialsofCasamance,Senegal,”British

LibraryEndangeredArchicesProgramme:https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1042.

§ “DigitalPreservationofWolofAjamiMaterialsofSenegal,”BritishLibraryEndangeredArchicesProgramme:https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP334.

§ “Ajami-TraditioninAfrika-AufderSuchenachdervergessenenSchrift,”https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute/auf-der-suche-nach-der-vergessenen-schrift-in-afrika-100.html.

§ “LibrariesandArchivesMeettheDigitalAge,”CenterfortheHumanities,BostonUniversity:https://www.bu.edu/today/2017/recording-lives-in-the-digital-age/

§ “AjamiDigitalScholarship:ChallengesandOpportunities,”RecordingLives:LibrariesandArchivesintheDigitalAge,October6,2017,BostonUniversity:http://sites.bu.edu/humanitiesforums/fallou-ngom/

§ “Nosarchivessontdesdésastres,”InterviewwithBBCAfrique,June9,2017:http://www.bbc.com/afrique/region-40340963

§ “Episode108:AjamiinAfricanHistory,”AfricaPast&Present-AfricanOnlineDigitalLibrary(AODL),March3,2017:http://afripod.aodl.org/tag/fallou-ngom/

§ “CrossingBorders,”CollegeofArtsandSciencesMagazine,Fall2014:http://www.bu.edu/cas/magazine/fall14/languages/

§ “AfricanSourcesofKnowledgeinAjamiScript,”ClarkForumforContemporaryIssuesLectureatDickinsonCollege:http://clarke.dickinson.edu/fallou-ngom/

§ “TheOtherSideoftheStory,”BostonUniversityResearchMagazine2012:http://www.bu.edu/research/magazine/2012/paper-trails/the-other-side-of-the-story/index.shtml

§ “TheRestisPoetry,”CollegeofArtsandSciencesMagazine,Fall2011:http://www.bu.edu/cas/magazine/fall11/poetry/index.shtml

§ “AfricanLanguageScholarWinsGuggenheimFellowship,”BUToday:http://www.bu.edu/today/2011/african-language-scholar-wins-guggenheim-fellowship/

§ “TheLostScript,”TheBostonGlobe:http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/10/the_lost_script/

§ “AfricanAjamiWritingSystem,”PRI’sTheWorld:http://www.pri.org/stories/2010-09-17/africas-ajami-writing-system

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§ “FoundinTranslation,”BostonUniversityResearchMagazine2009:

http://www.bu.edu/research/news-events/research-magazine/2009-toc/highlights/muslim-mosaic/

§ “LostLanguage,”BostoniaMagazine,Summer2009:http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/summer09/ajami/

§ “ScholarLeadsAfricanLanguageLearningProjecttoRecoverLostKnowledge,”DiverseIssuesinHigherEducation:http://diverseeducation.com/article/13121/

MEMBERSHIPINPROFESSIONALORGANIZATIONS

§ AfricanStudiesAssociation(ASA)§ AmericanAnthropologicalAssociation(AAA)§ WestAfricanResearchAssociation(WARA)

REFERENCES:Availableuponrequest