Curriculum Vitae

ABDOULAYE KANE CV

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 

  • August 2011-date: Associate professor: Department of Anthropology and Center for African Studies. University of Florida
  • 2003-2010: Assistant professor: Department of Anthropology and Center for African Studies
  • 2002-2003: Assistant professor: University Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal.

 EXPERTISE:

Theoretical Fields: Anthropological Theory, Transnational Migration, Migrants’ Social and Religious Networks, Migration and Development Cooperation, Informal Finance, Diaspora Studies, Gender and Migration.

Area Studies: Africa, Europe and the United States.

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

  • PhD Sociology, University of Amsterdam, 2001
  • DEA Certificate in Diplomacy and International Relations, IDERIC (Institut d’Etudes Diplomatiquesb et de Relations Internationales Contemporaines), 2002
  • MA Sociology, University of Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal, 1995
  • BA Sociology, University Gaston 1993
  • BA Political Science, University of Gaston Berger, 1995 (Concurrent with M.A. in Sociology) Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Sénégal

 PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Kane A. & Leedy T. (eds.), African Migrations : Patterns and Perspectives, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2013, 301p.

Dilger H., Kane A. & Langwick S. (eds), Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2012, 348p.

Kane, A., Tontines, caisses de solidarité et banquier ambulants. Univers des pratiques financières informelles au Sénégal et dans la Diaspora [Tontines, Solidarity Funds and Mobile Bankers : The Universe of Informal Financial Practices in Senegal and in the Diaspora,] l’Harmattan, Paris, 2010, 250p.

Kane, A., Keeping Home in Mind: The Experience Transnational Migration among the Haalpulaar of the Senegal River Valley. Under Review with University of Pennsylvania Press.

Kane A., “The Tijanniya Sufi Order’s Transnational Circuit: in Between Senegal, Morocco and France.” Manuscript in progress.

 

ARTICLES

Kane A., “Charity and Self-Help. Migrants’ Social Networks and Health Care in the Homeland.” Anthropology Today, Vol. 26, No 4, August 2010, pp. 8-12.

Kane, A. “Les diasporas africaines et la mondialisation.” In Horizons Maghrébins, no 53/2005, Presses Universitaires du Mirail, pp. 54-61.

Kane, A. “La confiance au Cœur des arrangements financiers populaires au Sénégal.” [Trust and Senegalese Informal Financial Arrangements] In Revue Sénégalaise de Sociologie, no 3.

Kane, A. “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, 2001, pp. 96-107.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

Kane, A. Les relations entre les vieilles et les nouvelles diasporas africaines aux Etats-Unis, CODESRIA, Multinational Working Group on the African Diaspora and Africa, In Press.

Kane A. & Leedy T., “Introduction,” In Kane A. & Leedy T. (eds), African Migrations: Patterns and Perspectives, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2013, pp. 1-16.

Dilger H, Langwick S. & Kane A., “Introduction : Transnational Medicine and Mobile Experts.” In Dilger H., Kane A. & Langwick S. (eds), Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa : Transnational Health and Healing, Indiana University Press, Bllomington, 2012, pp. 1-27.

Kane A., “Flows of Medicine, Healers, Health Professionals, and Patients between Home and Host Countries,” in Dilger H., Kane A. & Langwick S. (eds), Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2012, pp. 190-212.

Kane A., “Global Connections in a Sufi Order: Roots and Routes of the Medina Gounass Tijaniyya,” in Ross E., Harrak F., Anegay S.(eds), Religion et Migration, Publication de l’Institut des Etudes Africaines, Rabat, 2012, pp. 209-234.

Kane A., “Haalpulaar Migrants’ Home Connections : Travel and Communication Circuits.” In Hahn and Kastner (eds), Urban life-worlds in motion, transcript, Berlin, 2012, pp. 187-206.
Kane A., ‘Haapulaar Labour Migration to America : Paths of Socio-Cultural and Economic Insertion in New York, Cincinnati and Memphis’ in Rana Behal, Alice mah and Babacar Fall (eds), Rethinking Work : global Historical and Sociological Perspective, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2011, pp. 113-138.
 Kane, A., “Home Connections of Senegalese Migrants in Europe and the United States : Remittances and Social Change in the Senegal River Valley. ” In Marcel Van Linden (ed) Labour History beyond Borders : Concepts and Explorations. Leipzig : Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2010.

Kane, A. “Senegalese Sufi Orders in the Transnational Space: Moving Religious Activities from Home to Host Countries and Creating Diasporic Identities,” In Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi, & Aderonke Adesanya (eds), Migrations and Creative Expressions in Africa and the African Diasporas, Carolina Academic Press, pp. 471-481.

Kane, A. “Les pèlerins sénégalais au Maroc : la sociabilité autour de la Tijaniyya.” [The Senegalese pilgrims in Morocco: Sociability around the Tijaniyya Sufi Order,] In Laurence Marfaing Elisabeth Boessen, (eds), Les nouveaux urbains dans l’espace Sahara-Sahel: Un cosmopolitisme par le bas, Editions Karthala & ZMO, Berlin, Paris, pp. 187- 208.

Kane, A. “Tontines and Village Cash Boxes along the Thilogne-Dakar-Paris Emigration Route.” In Abram de Swaan & Marcel van der Linden (eds), Mutualist Microfinance: Informal Saving Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core? Aksant, Amsterdam, pp. 97-120.

Kane, A. “Senegal’s Village Diaspora and the People Left Behind.” In Deborah Bryceson and Ulla Vuorela (eds), The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks, Berg Publishers, London, pp. 245-263.

Kane, A., “Financial Arrangements across Borders: Women’s Predominant Participation in Popular Finance, from Thilogne and Dakar to Paris: A Senegalese Case Study,” In Beverly Lemire (ed), Women and Credit, Berg Publishers, London, pp. 295-317.

 

WORK IN PROGRSS

 

Kane A. The Centrality of Fes in the Articulation of Translocal and Transnational Tijani Religious Circuits: Dynamic of Mass Religious Ziaras along the Mbour-Fez Axe.

Kane A. Stuck in Transit: Narrative of Young Senegalese Emigrants en Route for Europe (Morocco, Turkey and Greece).

 

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

 

INVITED AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

Kane A. “La reconfiguration de l’identité Peul dans le Sahel: Le role de Tabital Pulaagu International (The reconfiguration of the Fulani Identity in the Sahel: The Role of Tabital Pulaagu Internatonal), Point Sud, Bamako (Mali), December 10-14, 2016.

Kane A. The Centrality of Fes in the Articulation of Translocal and Transnational Tijani Religious Circuits: Dynamic of Mass Religious Ziaras along the Mbour-Fez Axe. International conference on Religion and Performance in Africa, Uppsala, Sweden, December 11-13, 2013.

Kane A., L’ethnographie d’un espace religieux transnational: la Zawiya

Tijani de Fès. [ The ethnography of transnational religious space: The Tijani Zawiya of Fez]. Colloque International: Soufisme et Politique au Maroc et au Senegal. Termes et Enjeux Contemporains, November 08 & 09, 2012, Rabat-Maroc.

Kane A., “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

Kane A., “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.

Kane A., “Transnational Connections and Social Change in the Senegal River Valley,” IISMM et EHESS guest Seminars, University of Paris VI, May 2009.

Kane A. “The building a Religious Identity in Mantes-LA-Jolie: The annual Daha of Tijaniyya Follwers in France.” IISMM et EHESS guest Seminars, University of Paris VI, May 2009.

Kane A., “Rotating Saving and Credit Associations among Haalpulaar Immigrants in France,” IISMM et EHESS Round Table on Financial Networks in West African Muslim Communities in France, University of Paris 6, June 2009.

Kane A., 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. Keynote address title: “Migration, Money Transfer, and Development of Sending countries.” Dakar, March, 2008.

Kane A. “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, Canay Islands, June 25-29, 2006.

Kane A. “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.

 

INVITED AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL

Kane A.  “Social exclusion of French Muslims and radicalism in the French Suburbs.” Round Table on Charlie Hebdo Attacks, University of Florida, January 27, 2015.

Kane A., “A Tijani Transnational Religious Circuit: Flows of Baraka, Pilgrim-tourists, Religious Saints between Mbour, Fez, and Mantes-La-Jolie,” University of North Florida, February 8, 2013

Kane A., “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, 2007.

Kane A., “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, 2006.

Kane A., “Senegalese Sufi Migrants and Global Islam,” Paper presented at the Conference on Democracy and Global Islam. Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, April 22, 2005.

Kane A., “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, 2004.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND ANNUAL MEETINGS

INTERNATIONAL

Kane A., “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, 2006.

Kane A., “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, 2004.

Kane A., “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, 2002.

Kane A., “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, 1999.

Kane A., “La transnationalité des identités locales. Le cas des émigrés sénégalais en France,” [The Trasnationality of Local Identities : the Case of Senegalese Migrants in France], Paper presented at a Symposium. Identification. (Dé)Identification. L’état et les ethnies. Institut Neerlandais, October 16, 1998.

Kane A., “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, 1998.

 

NATIONAL

Kane, A. “Criminalizing Cultural Practice in France: Crossing National Borders and Reconstructing ethnic boundaries.” University of Florida, Carter Conference, April 1-2, 2016.

Kane, A. Stuck in Transit and Longing for Europe versus stuck in Europe and longing for home: The Lives of Sahelian clandestine migrants in Morocco, Turkey, Greece and France. Symposium on African Clandestine Migrants and Fortress Europe: Dreams of a Better Future and Human Dramas in the Mediterranean Sea, UF, January 22-23, 2016.

Kane A., “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, 2006.

Kane A. “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.

Kane A. “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, 2005.

Kane A. “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, 2004.

 

LOCAL

Kane A. “Senegalese Sufi Orders across Borders.” Presentation at a Symposium on Islam in Africa: Sufism and Modernity in a Globalized World. Harn Museum, February 10, 2005. (Symposium held as a complement to the Harn Museum’s exhibition on Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal.)

 Kane A. “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.

Kane A., “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, 2004.

Kane A. “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, 1998.

Kane A. “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, 1997.

Kane A. “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, 1996.

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, 1996.

 

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

African Clandestine Migrants and Fortress Europe: Dreams of a Better Future and Human Dramas in the Mediterranean Sea. Symposium, University of Florida, January 22-23, 2016.

Migration in and out of Africa: Old Patterns and New Perspectives, UF Center for African Studies, Carter Conference, February 15 and 16, 2008.

International workshop on Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts, Rethinking Medicine in and Beyond Africa, University of Florida: October 12-14, 2006 (With Dilger, H. & Langwick, S.)

Presence Africaine: Contesting Images and Creating Identities. UF Paris Research Center, April 10-11, 2006. (With Villalon, L. & Zachman, G.)

 

ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED PANELS

 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, 2006.

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, 2005.

Panel Chair : “Les relations entre les migrants transnationaux et leurs villages d’origine.” [Transnational Migrants and Home]. Conférence de l’Association Euro-Africaine pour l’Anthropologie du Changement Social et du Développement (APAD), January 16-19, 2000, St-Louis, Sénégal.

REVIEWS FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND PRESSES

 

American Anthropologist

Journal of Indigenous Nations Studies

Indiana University Press

Politique Africaine

African Studies Review

Transforming Anthropology

 

AWARDS FELLOWSHIPS

  • 2016 Research Tutorial, UF Center for African Studies $12,000
  • 2015 UIFC study Abroad Development Award $7,000
  • 2011: UF FEO Award                                                                                 $22,000
  • 2009 Professeur Invité à l’IISMM. EHESS, Paris, France
  • 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
  • 1997-2001: 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
  • Grant 1997-1998: 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: Fellowship for undergraduate and graduate studies

MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS

AAA: American Anthropological Association (since 2004)

ASA: African Studies Association (since 2003)

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 2020.