Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University: July 2002 to date

Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of African Studies, Columbia University, January 2002 - July 2002.

Post-doctoral Fellow, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University September 2000 � May 2001.

Leverhulme Research Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, The University of London (November 1996-August 1997).

Visiting Professor
(Fall semesters of 1994 and 1995)
African & African American Studies The University of Kansas, Lawrence Courses taught include The History of Islam in Africa Comparative Politics

Ma�tre-assistant
1993 - 2002
Universit� de Saint-Louis (S�n�gal) Courses taught include - African Politics - Comparative Politics - Political Anthropology - Political Sociology

Attach� de recherche (Research Fellow)
1992
Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France.

Teaching assistant
1991
Department of History, Universit� de Paris VII Jussieu. Co-taught with Professor Jean-Louis Triaud a graduate seminar on "Islam and Society South of the Sahara" Duties included helping post-graduate students frame research proposals and guiding their readings.

Research associate
1989
Department of Islamic Studies, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria . Conducted fieldwork for doctoral dissertation.