Gana Ndiaye
Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration
Gana Ndiaye is Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. He received his PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Boston University. He is an ethnographer with previous training in intercultural mediation and literature. His interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include migration, race and ethnicity, informal economies, Muslim market ethics, and the ʿAjamī (modified Arabic script) literary traditions of Muslim Africa. Dr. Ndiaye’s scholarship includes translation and digital humanities. He has been a key contributor to the National Endowment for the Humanities Ajami Project based at Boston University.
He also wrote and directed a Portuguese-language documentary on Senegalese migrants in Brazil: Senegaleses no Brasil: para além da economia informal (Senegalese Immigrant Lives in Brazil: Beyond Street Vending). 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. His current book project examines how Senegalese Sufi immigrants in Brazil strive to live ethical lives under capitalism. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Islamic Africa, The Stichproben – Vienna Journal of African Studies, and in edited volumes on Islam in Africa and on stereotypes and migration.
Before joining the faculty at Yale, Dr. Ndiaye was Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Beloit College, Wisconsin.