ABDOULAYE KANE University of Florida PO Box 117 305 Department of Anthropology & Gainesville, FL 32611-7305 Center for African Studies E-mail: akane@anthro.ufl.edu Office: Grinter Hall, 439 Tel: 352 392 6788 Fax: 352 392 2435 ACADEMIC POSITIONS August 2003- date: Assistant professor: Department of Anthropology and Center for African Studies. University of Florida 2002-2003: Assistant professor: University Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal. EXPERTISE: Theoretical Fields: Cultural Anthropology, Informal Finance, Transnational Migrations, Diaspora Studies. Area Studies: Africa, Europe and the United States. Dissertation: Les caméléons de la finance populaire au Sénégal et dans la Diaspora: Dynamique des tontines et des caisses villageoises entre Thilogne, Dakar et la France [ The Chameleons of Popular Finance in Senegal and in the Senegalese Diaspora: Dynamics of Tontines and Village Funds between Thilogne, Dakar, and France] EDUCATION PhD: Sociology, University of Amsterdam, 2001 MA: Sociology, University of Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal, 1995 BA: Sociology, University Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal, 1993 DEUG (Associate s Degree): Political Science, University of Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Sénégal, 1995 (Concurrent with M.A in Sociology) 1
PUBLICATIONS Books Kane, A. 2010 Tontines, caisses de solidarité et banquiers ambulants. Univers des pratiques financières informelles en Afrique et en milieu immigré africain en France, [Tontines, Solidarity Funds, and Ambulatory Bankers: The Universe of Informal Financial Practices in Africa and among African Immigrants in France,] Paris: l Harmattan Book Manuscripts Dilger, H., Kane, A., and Langwick, S. (Eds.). Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts: Globalization, Health and Power In & Beyond Africa, Indiana University Press, Forthcoming Kane, A. & Leedy Todd, African Migrations Today: Patterns and Perspectives, Indiana University Press, Forthcoming. Keeping Home in Mind: Transnational Social Spaces and Culture of Migration among the Haalpulaar of the Senegal River Valley, Completed, Refereed articles 2010 Charity and Self-Help. Migrants Social Networks and Health Care in the Homeland. Anthropology Today, Vol. 26, N0 $, August 2010, pp. 8-12. 2005 Les diasporas africaines et la mondialisation, In Horizons Maghrébins, no 53/2005, Presses Universitaires du Mirail, pp. 54-61 2001 Diasporas villageoise et développement local en Afrique: le cas de Thilogne Association Développement, [Village Diaspora and Local Development in Africa: A Case Study of Thilogne Association Développement] In Hommes et Migrations, no 1229, pp. 96-107 Non Refereed articles 2001 La confiance au Cœur des arrangements financiers populaires au Sénégal, [Trust Relations in the Popular Financial Arrangements], In Revue Sénégalaise de Sociologie, No 4-5, pp. 213-262 Edited Volumes 2
2008 Senegalese Sufi Orders in the Transnational Space: Moving Religious Activities from Home to Host Countries and Creating Diasporic Identities, In Migrations and Creative Expressions in Africa and the African Diasporas, Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi, & Aderonke Adesanya ( eds), Carolina Academic Press, 2008, pp. 471-481 2007 Les pèlerins sénégalais au Maroc: la sociability autour de la Tijaniyya [The Senegalese pilgrims in Morocco: Sociability around the Tijaniyya Sufi Order,] In Les nouveaux urbains dans l espace Sahara-Sahel: Un cosmopolitisme par le bas, Laurence Marfaing Elisabeth Boessen (eds.), Berlin, Paris: Editions Karthala & ZMO, pp. 187-208 2006 Tontines and Village Cash Boxes along the Thilogne-Dakar-Paris Emigration Route In Mutualist Microfinance: Informal Saving Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core? Abram de Swaan & Marcel van der Linden (eds.), Amsterdam: Aksant, pp. 97-120 2002 Senegal s Village Diaspora and the People Left Behind In The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks, Deborah Bryceson and Ulla Vuorela, (eds.), London: Berg Publishers, pp. 245-263 2001 Financial Arrangements across Borders: Women s Predominant Participation in Popular Finance, from Thilogne and Dakar to Paris; A Senegalese Case Study In Women and Credit, Researching the Past, Refiguring the Future, Beverly Lemire (eds.), London: Berg Publishers, pp. 295-317 Flows of Medicine, Healers, Health Professionals, and Patients Between Home and Host Countries in Dilger, H., Kane, A., and Langwick, S. (eds.) Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts: Globalization, Health and Power In & Beyond Africa, Indiana University Press, Forthcoming Dilger, H., Kane, A., and Langwick, S. Introduction, In Dilger, Hansjoerg, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey Langwick (eds.) Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts: Globalization, Health and Power In and Beyond Africa, Indiana University Press, Forthcoming Home Connections of Senegalese Migrants in Europe and the United States: Remittances and Social Change in the Senegal River Valley, In Marcel Van Linden (eds.) Labour History beyond Borders: Concepts and Explorations, Leipzig : Akademische Verlagsanstalt, Forthcoming Les relations entre les vieilles et les nouvelles diasporas africaines aux Etats-Unis. Book chapter submitted to the CODESRIA s multinational working group for its research program on the African Diaspora and Africa, Forthcoming 3
Submitted articles and book chapters Introduction to African Migration Today, in Kane, A. & Leedy Todd, African Migrations Today: Patterns and Perspectives, Proceedings of the 2008 Carter Conference on Migration in and out of Africa: Old Patterns and new Perspectives. Indiana University Press, In preparation for re-submission The Experience of Haalpulaar Migrants in Three US Cities: The Building of Transnational Communities in New York, Cincinnati and Memphis, To be resubmitted to American Ethnologist in July Les journées culturelles de Thilogne: Retour des migrants transnationaux à leurs sources, [The Thilogne Festival: the return of transnational Haal Pulaar Migrants] Article submitted to L Homme Transnational Practices of Haalpulaar migrants: Communication, Remittances and Social Change, Submitted to the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Analyse des problèmes des enfants de migrants Haalpulaar au Sénégal et en France: La centralité de la présence ou de l absence des parents, Submitted to Revue des Africanistes, Special Issue: Enfants et Migration Work in Progress Home Connections: The Practice of Transnationalism and its evolution since the 1970 among the Haalpulaar migrants in France, In preparation The Building of a Religious Community in Memphis: Challenging Religious traditions in the Diaspora, In preparation Les Marabouts transnationaux et les diasporas Haal Pulaar en Europe et aux Etats-Unis [The Transnational Religious Leaders and the Haalpulaar Migrants in Europe and in the United States,] In preparation INVITED AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL 4
2010 The Experience of Haalpulaar Migrants in Three US Cities: The Building of Transnational Communities in New York, Cincinnati and Memphis, Workshop on Global History and Sociology of Work: Perspectives from Europe, Africa and Asia, IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History, Humboldt University, Berlin, Mai, 6-7, 2010 2009 Home Connections of Senegalese Migrants in Europe and the United States: Remittances and Social Change in the Senegal River Valley ITH Conference, Linz, Austria, September 2009 2009 Transnational Connections and Social Change in the Senegal River Valley, Institut d Etudes de l Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman (IISMM) et Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), guest Seminars, University of Paris VI, May 2009 2009 The building of a Religious Identity in Mantes-La-Jolie: The annual Daha of Tijaniyya Followers in France IISMM et EHESS guest Seminars, University of Paris VI, May 2009 2009 Rotating Saving and Credit Associations among Haalpulaar Immigrants in France, IISMM and EHESS, Round Table on Financial Networks in West African Muslim Communities in France, University of Paris 6, June 2009 2008 Migration, Money Transfer, and Development of Sending Countries, Keynote Address at the seminar on Migration and Money Transfer and the Development of Africa, Co-sponsored by the Organization for International Migration (OIM) and TrustAfrica, Dakar, March, 2008 2006 Co-développement et contrôle des flux migratoires: les illusions européennes contre l imaginaire des jeunes africains, Paper presented at the International Cooperation Salon in Tenerife, Canary Islands, June 25-29, 2006 2005 Senegalese Pilgrims in Morocco: Sociability around the Tijaniyya Sufi Order. Paper presented at a Conference on Entre Villes et Désert. Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, December 9-11, 2005. 2002 Bad but Necessary: Practices and Perceptions of Corruption among the Senegalese Migrants in France, Presentation at a Jubilee Conference on Corruption, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, December 9-11 INVITED AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL 5
2007 African Conflicts, Border Crossings, and the Idea of Co-Development, Paper presented at the Institute for African Development (IAD) weekly Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, February 22 2006 Chain Migration among the Haalpulaar Community in New York, Paper presented at the Symposium on Africans in New York, co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies and the Museum for African Art, Columbia University, April 21 2005 Senegalese Sufi Migrants and Global Islam, Paper presented at the Conference on Democracy and Global Islam, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, April 22 2004 Islam Here and There: Transnational Marabouts and the Experience of Haalpulaar Migrants in France, Paper presented at a Conference on East and West: the Experience of Islam in an Expanding Europe, Center for European Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 25-27 PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND ANNUAL MEETINGS INTERNATIONAL 2006 Medina Gounass in Mantes-La-Jolie: Translocal Islamic Sufi Practices and the Expression of Haalpulaar Identity in France, Paper presented at the workshop on Presence Africaine: Contesting Images and Creating Identities, UF s Paris Research Center and Center for African Studies, Paris, April 10-11 2004 Immigration Law and Senegalese Women in France: Changing Perceptions of Home and Host countries, Paper presented at a Conference on Gendered Borders, Vrij Universiteit, Amsterdam, September 28-30 1999 La prédominance de la participation des femmes dans les arrangements financiers populaires au Sénégal, Presentation at a Conference on Women and Credit, University of New Brunswick, Canada, September 15-18 1998 La transnationalité des identités locales. Le cas des émigrés sénégalais en France. [The Transnationality of Local Identities: the Case of Senegalese Migrants in France,] Paper presented at a Symposium. Identification and (Dé)identification: L état et les ethnies, Institut Néerlandais, October 16 1998 Les mécanismes de solidarité chez les immigrés sénégalais en France ou de la sécurité sociale par le bas, [Solidarity Mechanisms among Senegalese Migrants in France : Social Security from below,] Paper presented at the Centre d'etudes des Solidarités (CESOL), University Paris VIII, Mai 26-28 6
NATIONAL 2006 Senegalese Sufi Orders in the Transnational Space: Moving Religious Activities from Home to Host Countries and Creating Daisporas, Paper presented at the Conference on Movements, Migration and Displacement in Africa, The University of Texas at Austin, March 23, 24, 25 2005 Community Health in the Hands of the Village Diasporas: The Case of the Senegal River Valley, Paper presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November, 17-20 2005 The Experience of Haal Pulaar Migrants in Three American Cities, Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 30, December 1-4 2004 The Senegalese Diaspora in Europe and in the US: Representations of Home, Paper presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 11-14 LOCAL 2005 Senegalese Sufi Orders across Borders, Presentation at a Symposium on Islam in Africa: Sufism and Modernity in a Globalized World, Harn Museum, February 10, (Symposium held as a complement to the Harn Museum s exhibition on Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal) 2004 Changing Perceptions of Home: the Senegalese Women in the Diaspora, Presentation in the Gender Conversations Brown Bag Lecture Series, Center for Women s Studies and Gender Research, University of Florida, October 29 2004 Keeping Home in Mind: The Experience of Haal Pulaar Migrants in the United States, presentation in the Baraza Lecture Series, University of Florida, Center for African Studies, October 15 1998 Typology of Informal Financial Arrangements in Senegal and their Transnational Character, Paper presented at the Staff Colloquium of Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, May 6 1997 Dynamique des tontines et des mutuelles communautaires chez les immigrés sénégalais vivant en France, Fieldwork Report presentation, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, February 10 1996 The Weakness of the Senegalese State and the Development of the Informal Sector, Presented in a seminar on State formation in Europe and Beyond, Amsterdam School, University of Amsterdam, June 23 7
Kane, A. Local Poverty, National policies and International Aid, Presented in a seminar on Poverty and Poor Relief, Amsterdam School, University of Amsterdam, December 9 ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 2008 Migration in and out of Africa: Old Patterns and New Perspectives, Annual Gwendolen M. Carter Conference in African Studies, February 15 and 16, 2008 2006 International workshop on Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts, Rethinking Medicine in and Beyond Africa, University of Florida: October 12-14, (With Dilger, H. & Langwick, S.) 2006 Presence Africaine: Contesting Images and Creating Identities, UF Paris Research Center, April 10-11, (With Villalon, L. & Zachman, G.) ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED PANELS 2006 Panel Organizer & Chair: From Sojourners to Citizens: Prospect and Problems of African Migrants in France, Workshop on Presence Africaine: Contesting Images and Creating Identities, Paris, April 10-11, 2006 Panel Organizer: Networks across Borders: Social, Economic and Religious Ties to Africa, Workshop on Presence Africaine: Contesting Images and Creating Identities, Paris, April 10-11 2006 Panel Chair: The Political Economy of African Transnationalism, South-East Africanists Network s Conference on the African Experience in Europe through Cinema, Sponsored by the Center for African Studies and the Center for European Studies, U.F., January 28-30 2005 Panel Chair: Soldiers in States, At a Conference on States of Violence: the Conduct of War in Africa, Annual Gwendolen M. Carter Conference in African Studies, sponsored by the Center for African Studies, U.F., March 17-19 2000 Panel Chair : Les relations entre les migrants transnationaux et leurs villages d origine, Conférence de l Association Euro-Africaine pour l Anthropologie du Changement Social et du Développement (APAD), St-Louis, Sénégal, January 16-19 GRADUATE COMMITTEES Master Committees (Graduated) 8
MA Laura Jervis, 2005 (Member) MA Sarah Page, 2007 (Member) MA Khadidja Arfi, 2008 (Member) MA Landon Denkler, 2009 (Member) Master Committees (Current) MA John Hames, Chair, active MA Jason Hatz, Chair, active Doctoral Committees (Graduated) PhD Maxine Downs (2006) (Member) PhD Michelle Edwards (2007) (Member) PhD Ermites Saint Jacques (2009) (Member) PhD Kamal Feriali (2009) (Member) PhD Felicia Chigozie Anonyuo (2009) (Member) PhD Suzanne Dolwick Grieb (2009) (Member) PhD Mantoa Rose Smouse (2010) (External Member) Doctoral Committees (Current) PhD Lauren Cheek, Chair, active PhD Holly Fisher, chair, active PhD Allison Ketter, Committee member PhD Ryan Peseckas, Committee Member PhD Khadidja Arfi, Committee Member PhD Maia Bass, Committee member PhD Timothy Nevin, External Committee Member Ph.D Paul Codner, External Committee Member PhD Steve Davis, External Committee Member Undergraduate Research Undergraduate Honors Theses, Vivian Gornik, 2010 (Supervisor) University Scholar Award Joshua A Villanueva, Supervisor, active REVIEWS FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND PRESSES American Anthropologist Journal of Indigenous Nations Studies 9
Indiana University Press Politique Africaine African Studies Review Transforming Anthropology EXTERNAL REVIEW OF THESIS External examiner of a PhD dissertation for the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, (Title: The Development of Ethnic Minorities: A Case Study of West Africans in South Africa,) August 23, 2005. AWARDS FELLOWSHIPS 2008 Course Enhancement Grant from the Center for European Studies $3,000 2007 2007-08 Gwendolyn M. Carter Faculty Fellow in African Studies $25,000 2007 Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund $8,500 2006 Course Development Grant from the Center for European Studies $5,000 2006 CODESRIA Mutli-national working group on African Diaspora Grant $7,000 2005 Internationalizing the Curriculum Award, UFIC, University of Florida $3,000 1996 Nederlandse Ontwikkelingsorganisatie (NOVIB) and Humanistisch Instituut Voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking (HIVOS) (Dutch NGOs): Grant. (Four years full tuition and salary) 1996 Amsterdam School for Social Science Research Fellowship 1997-01 Fellowship of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (Travel, Books) 4X$2,500, $ 10,000. 1997 Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR): Research 1997-98 Dissertation Research Grant $ 12,000 1993 Best Student Award, University of St-Louis, Senegal Award for the Best Student in the Department of Sociology 1990-1995 Senegalese State Fellowship for undergraduate and graduate studies MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS AAA: American Anthropological Association (since 2004) ASA: African Studies Association (since 2003) 10
WARA: West African Research Association (since 2003) APAD: Association pour l Anthropologie et le Développement (since 1997) LANGUAGE SKILLS: Fulani: mother tongue French: fluent English: fluent Wolof: fluent Dutch: basic REFERENCES: Prof. Leonardo Villalon, University of Florida Center for African Studies 427 Grinter Hall PO Box 115560 Gainesville, FL 32611, Tel: (352) 392-2183, (352) 392-2435 (FAX). E-mail: villalon@africa.ufl.edu. Prof. Anita Spring, Univesity of Florida, Anthropology, 1112 Turlington Hall, PO BOX 117305, Gainesville, FL32611. E-mail: aspring@anthro.ufl.edu. Prof. Brenda Chalfin, University of Florida, Anthropology, 1112 Turlington Hall PO BOX 117304, Gainesville, FL 32611. E-mail: bchalfin@anthro.ufl.edu Prof. Peter Geschiere, Amsterdam's School for Social Science Research, Oude Hoogstraat 24, 1012 CE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. June, 2010 11