Amy Niang

She is specialised in African Political History and Political Thought. Her work also examines Africa’s International relations and the geopolitics of security in the Sahel. Amy is the author of The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty (2018); co- editor of Identités sahéliennes en temps de crise: histoires, enjeux et perspectives (with Baz Lecocq, 2019) and Researching Peacebuilding in Africa: Reflections on Theory, Fieldwork and Context (with Ismail Rashid, 2020). Her work has also been published in Millennium; International Relations; Alternatives; Politics; African Studies; African Economic History, Journal of Ritual Studies and in many edited collections. She has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand for many years and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco. She is an Associate Professor of Political Science on leave from the Africa Institute of Sharjah. She has also held visiting positions at the University of Sao Paulo, Princeton University, the University of Halle-Wittenberg, the University of Michigan, the Institute of Peace ad Security Studies (IPSS), Cornell University and many other institutions. Niang is a former member of the Advisory Board of the African Peacebuilding Network of Social Science Research Council (APN-SSRC); a board member of the Program on African Social Research; and member of the editorial/advisory board of over a dozen journals.