Gana Ndiaye

Gana Ndiaye joins the FAS as Assistant Professor in the Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. He is an anthropologist with training and experience in intercultural mediation, French, and African languages. His interdisciplinary research engages the anthropological study of migration, race and ethnicity, informal economies, Muslim market ethics, and literary traditions of Muslim Africa written in ʿAjamī (African languages written with the Arabic script). Spanning West Africa and the Americas through multi-sited and multilingual ethnographic and archival research, his scholarship bridges the worlds of global Black migrations and Islam in Africa and the Americas. He has produced a Portuguese-language documentary on West African immigrants in Brazil. His book in progress examines how Senegalese Sufi migrants in Brazil strive to live ethical lives under capitalism.