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Dr Mamadou Bodian
Researcher
Dr Mamadou Bodian
Dr Mamadou Bodian was a Researcher in the SIPRI Sahel and West Africa Programme. He is a founding member of the Sahel Research Group (SRG) at the University of Florida which is a collaborative effort to understand the political, social, economic and cultural dynamics of the countries of the West African Sahel. Dr Bodian was also a Project Coordinator for the Trans-Saharan Elections Programme (TSEP) at the University of Florida. From 2008 to 2009, he served as a Senior Researcher in the Project Office 'Islam Research Programme' at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Senegal, a project sponsored by Leiden University and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has been acting as an expert for Freedom House (Mali) since 2015, Variety of Democracy (Mauritania) since 2015, and Afrobarometer (Senegal) since 2018.
Dr Bodian received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florida in 2016 and a Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) in Sociology from the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar in 2007. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the West Africa Research Center (WARC) in Senegal to oversee a research project on 'Student activism and religious movements in Sahelian Universities' funded by the Sahel Research Group thanks to an additional Minerva grant for 2017-18.
Subject expertise
Religion, democracy, electoral reforms, education, security and foreign policy
Regional expertise
West Africa/Sahel
Languages
French, English, Wolof, Diola, Mandinka
Education
PhD in Political Sciences at University of Florida
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- The Challenges of Governance, Development and Security in the Central Regions of Mali (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2020)
External publications
- Bodian, M., Senegal, (Vol 14, 2017), Africa Yearbook, Edited by Mehler, A., Melber, H. and van Walraven, K. Lieden: Brill (2018)
- Bodian, M. and Kelly, C. L., Senegalese Foreign Policy: Leadership Through Soft Power from Senghor to Sall, in Warner, J. and Shaw, T. (Edits.) African Foreign Policies in International Institutions, Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 327-351 (2018)
- Bodian, M., Senegal, (Vol 13, 2016), Africa Yearbook, Edited by Mehler, A., Melber, H. and van Walraven, K. Lieden: Brill (2017)
- Camara, El Hadji M. S. and Bodian, M., Islam in the Academic Sphere in Senegal: The case of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD), Contemporary Islam (2016)
- Bodian, M. and Villalón, L. A., Islam et réforme éducative au Sénégal: tensions et négociations vers un modèle hybride, in Abdourahmane Seck, Mayke Kaag , Cheikh Guèye and Abdou Salam Fall (eds.) État, Sociétés et Islam au Sénégal. Un air de nouveau temps? Paris, Karthala (2015)
- Bodian, M. and Camara, El Hadji M. S., Islam et espace public au Sénégal: les acteurs religieux dans l’amélioration du débat public sur la bonne gouvernance, in Abdourahmane Seck, Mayke Kaag , Cheikh Guèye and Abdou Salam Fall (eds.) État, Sociétés et Islam au Sénégal. Un air de nouveau temps?, Paris, Karthala (2015)
- Bodian, M., The Stakes of the Malian Crisis in Senegal: Political Response, Public Debate, and Institutional Resilience, Sahel Research Group (SRG), Working Papers No 005, Sahel Research Group (2014)
- Villalón, L. A. and Bodian, M., Religion, demande sociale, et réformes éducatives au Sénégal : Quand l'Etat introduit l'éducation arabo-islamique dans l'enseignement publique pour concurrencer l'école franco-arabe privée et capturer les daara, APPP Research Report # 5 (2012)
- Villalón, L. A., Idrissa, A. and Bodian, M., Religion, demande sociale, et reformes éducatives au Mali : Quand les acteurs sociaux poussent l’Etat à encadrer la transition vers les médersas franco-arabe, APPP Research Report # 6 (2012)
- Villalón, L. A., Idrissa, A. and Bodian, M., Religion, demande sociale, et réformes éducatives au Niger : Quand l'Etat redynamise l'école franco-arabe, réorganise les écoles "Islamiyya", et essaie de capturer les écoles coraniques, APPP Research Report # 7 (2012)