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NAME:
MOUSTAPHA DIOUF
POSITION:
Associate Professor of Sociology
ADDRESS:
Department of Sociology
31 So. Prospect St.
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405
TELEPHONE:
(802) 656-2141 Office
(802) 656-7952 Home
FAX:
(802) 656-2131
EMAIL:
[email protected]
March, 2015
Former President of the MillenniumChallengeAccount (MCA)
And Special Adviser of the Prime minister of Ssenegal
Current Address in Dakar Primature Senegal. Tel 776505505
EDUCATION:
1989
1985
1981
1979
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia
M.S. in Rural Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia
M.A. in Sociology, University of Paris
(Mention Très Bien)
B.A. in Sociology, University of Paris
PROFESSIONAL CAREER:
1995 - present
1989 - 1995
Associate Professor, University of Vermont, 1995-present
Assistant Professor, University of Vermont, 1989-1995
1988 - 1989
Return to the U.S. to complete a Ph.D. dissertation and work as an autonomous
teaching assistant at the Department of Sociology of the University of
Missouri-Columbia.
1986 - 1987
UNESCO: worked as a sociologist in the Social Science Research Department.
Involved in the elaboration and implementation of development projects at
UNESCO's Regional Office for Education in Africa (Dakar, Senegal).
Assisted in the planning and organization of regional seminars and workshops
for UNESCO's program for "The Eradication of Illiteracy in Africa."
Responsible for the publication of UNESCO's bulletin, "Alpha 2000" (editing
and translating of articles).
1984 - 1985
Autonomous Teaching Assistant with full responsibility for teaching an
introductory Sociology course.
This course focused on the methodology of sociological inquiry. Its purpose
was to initiate students to existing sociological perspectives dealing with the
study of human phenomena and how to use such approaches to conduct field
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work and surveys. Overall, this course helped to provide a theoretical and
methodological background for sociological investigation and covered the
mainstream contemporary sociological currents.
PROFESSIONAL CAREER (Continued)
1985
Research Assistant at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of
Rural Sociology
Under the scientific guidance of Professor Daryl Hobbs, Director of the Office
of Socioeconomic Data Analysis (OSEDA), University of Missouri-Columbia,
and Professor J. Kenneth Benson, Chairman of the Sociology Department of
the University of Missouri-Columbia.
This research focused on the role and impact of social services in rural
communities and an understanding of farmers' behavior toward such social
services in the United States.
1984
Research at the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA) at Kolda.
Fieldwork for a Master's thesis in two villages of the upper Casamance
(Senegal).
This study dealt with the relationship between subsistence and commercial
farming in a cotton production zone. A particular analysis of the impact of
cotton production as a cash crop on food and livestock production is
constructed. Overall, this study is a case of applied sociology to the problem of
the articulation between agriculture and pastoralism in the Upper Casamance
region in Senegal.
1983 - 1984
Course work for a Master's degree (including English training).
1981 - 1982
Research at the "Centre National de Recherches Agronomiques" (CNRA) of
Bambey, Senegal
A focus on the migration phenomena in three villages (Senegal). The major
objective of this research was an assessment of the social, economic and
political impact of the migration toward urban areas on the family farm:
— Whether such migration trends have created a labor shortage within the
family unit of production.
— Whether the development of extra farming activities (through the
migration phenomena) has provided inputs in the family farm consumption
(food supply).
Overall, the research purpose was to identify existing patterns of migrations,
and based on our findings, to formulate policy recommendations that could
help stabilize the labor force in these regions, and meet the local needs of the
populations.
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Master's Thesis entitled: A Sociological Approach to Senegalese Peasant Systems of Production: A Case
Study of Two Senegalese Villages of the Upper Casamance. (175 pp.) University of Missouri-Columbia.
This thesis provides an in-depth analysis of farming systems in upper Casamance (from traditional
patterns of farming to current agro-pastoral strategies). It discusses the policy of development
agencies implementing rural development projects in the region: SODEFITEX (agency in charge of
cotton production) and SODAGRI (agency promoting rice cultivation). The thesis concludes with
policy recommendations aimed at reducing Senegal's dependency on food import by providing a
balance between food production and cash oriented production.
PREVIOUS WORK:
Master's Thesis entitled: Methodologie et Technique de la Recherche Sociologique: Sur le Developpement
du Secteur Agro-Industriel au Senegal. (108 pp.) University of Paris.
This work provides a theoretical and methodological framework for conducting a sociological
research. A careful documentation on the nature, function and orientation of the Senegalese agroindustrial sector is developed in the study. The social implications resulting from the process of
agro-industrial development in Senegal are analyzed. The method of document study was used to
structure this work.
Ph.D. Dissertation entitled: Major Paradigms in Social Change and Development: A Critical Assessment
and New Directions. (225 pp.) University of Missouri-Columbia.
This dissertation attempts to examine the main currents of thought in development sociology and
provide a critical analysis of this literature. One central theme of this study is the present crisis
facing the sociology of development which I believe derives from the failure to link theories of
development to practical problems of intervention and to formulate practical perspectives for social
change and development.
The purpose here will be to analyze the dimensions of the crisis and suggest ways of resolving it.
Thus there is an attempt to develop a sociological framework which provides an analysis and synthesis of
the major issues in development sociology, and to lay out the intellectual foundation upon which a case
study on the nature of the state and its role in the process of social change and development in Senegal is
carried out.
Finally, the study calls for the transformative capacity of human action to bring about change and
stresses the necessity of translating theoretical assumptions or knowledge into emancipatory action.
PUBLICATIONS:
« Le Millennium Challenge Account (MCA)et les Politiques de Developpement du Senegal » in Le
Soleil April 2014.
« Le Socialisme Autogestionnaire dans la Pensee de Mamadou Dia » Revue Cours nouveau Octobre
2013, Reactualise et publie par le Journal Enquete February 2014.
“Barack Obama:Les contours d’une champagne politique postmoderne”
In le Journal Enquete Decembre 2012
“Navigating through the complex web of identity politics: confronting Race in Academia”
In The Black Profeeoriat: Negotiating a habitable space in Academia edited by Sandra Jackdon and
Richard Johnson, 2011 Peter lang ed New york
‘Aucun Intellectuel serieux ne peut defender le coup de foce de Gbagbo, il doit partir”
Sud Quotidien and Seneweb.com , December 7 2010
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« L’Election de barack Obama et les contours d’une politique communicative Postmoderne. »
In L’Afrique dans le Monde, April 2009
“La Problematique de la Reforme et de la Transformation Sociale au Senegal” La reforme Printemps 2002
“Le Meilleur Choix pour le Senegal.” Moustapha Diouf and Mar Fall, SUD Journal, Fevrier, 2000.
“La Construction d’une Nouvelle Gauche en Dèbat.” Moustapha Diouf and Mar Fall, SUD Journal,
Novembre, 1998, No.1688.
“La Prèsidentielle de 2000 Se Joue et Se Gagne á Gauche.” Moustapha Diouf and Mar Fall, SUD Journal,
Fevrier, 1999.
“L’Actualitè du Socialisme.” Moustapha Diouf and Mar Fall, SUD Journal. Avril 1999
"La Question Noire aux Etats-Unis." Homme et Immigration, No. 4, 1999.
"Teaching the Conflicts: Race and Ethnic Relations." Multicultural Education: A Transdisciplinary
Approach, eds. Ball, Berkowitz, Mzamane. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.
A New Dimension in the Legitimation Crisis in Senegal: Exacerbation of the Contradictions Between State
and Civil Society. In Challenges to Democracy and Development: Sub-Saharan Africa in the
1990's. Edited by Rukhsana A. Siddiqui, Greenwood-Praeger Publishing Inc., New York. 1996.
PUBLICATIONS: (Continued)
"Development Sociology in Transition: Recapturing the New Trends."
Studies, Vol. 26, No. 3, 1994.
Journal of Asian and African
"The New World Economic Order and Global Change." A book review done for Rural Sociology, Vol. 58,
no. 4, 1993.
"Western Sociology and the Third World: Asymmetrical Forms of Understanding and Inadequacy of the
Sociological Discourse." A Critique of Contemporary American Sociology, Larry T. Reynolds, Ted
R. Vaughan and Gideon Sjoberg (eds.), New York: General Hall Press, 1993.
"State Formation and Legitimation Crisis in Senegal." Review of African .
"New Directions for Rural Development in Senegal: Reconsidering Past Experience in Agricultural
Research and Extension Policy." Crossroads, No. 31, 1991.
"The Voluntarism-Determinism Controversy and Bureaucracy in Marxism." International Social Science
Review. Volume 65, Number 1, Winter 1990.
L'Etat en Afrique by Jean Francois Bayart (439 pp). A book review done for the Journal of Modern
African Studies (JMAS), London, January 1990.
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PRESENTATIONS/LECTURES:
“L’Evaluation des Travaux du MCA dans la zone Nord et Sud du Senegal. Conseil d’Administration MCA,
Dakar May 2014.
“The Political Economy of African Policies: A critical Assessment” American Sociological Association
Annual Meetings New York, August 11, 2007
“The Darfur Crisis and its Geopolitical ramifications” Fall Lectures Series , The University of
Vermont,2006
“Is the New Parternership for African Development “NEPAD” a Viable Development Strategy ?”
Areas and International Studies Lecture Series The University of Vermont November 2003
“Debunking Archaic Notions on African Primitivism :The Social Meaning of African Drumming”
The Flynn Center October 28 Burlington VT.
“The Political Economy of Brain Drain and its Impact on African Development Prospects”
Middlebury College International Symposium on Brain Drain and Globalization November 15-17 2002
“Les Strategies d’Integration des Minorities en France.”
Novembre, 1998.
Presented at the Universite de Bordeaux,
Presider at a refereed round table on “Teaching Race and the Conflicts in Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.”
ASA, August, 1998.
"L'Exploitation du travail de l'énfant/Child labor exploitation in West Africa." Presented at the Regional
Commission for Policy Recommendations, Dakar, Senegal, March, 1997.
"La question raciale et ethnique aux Etats Unis." Paper presented at the conference organized by the
University of Bordeaux, France, March 12-17, 1996.
"A New Dimension in the Legitimation Crisis in Senegal: Exacerbation of the Contraditions Between
State and Civil Society." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Los Angeles, August, 1994.
PAPERS PRESENTED: (Continued)
"Democratization and Development Perspectives in Africa: The Case of Senegal." Paper presented at the
annual meetings of the American Sociological Association meetings, Miami, August, 1993.
"The Political Economy of the African Food Crisis." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Rural
Sociological Society, August 1993.
"Culture, Developpement et Democratie en Afrique."
Developpement meeting in Dakar, December, 1992.
Paper presented at the Fondation Paix et
"'The Peasant Mode of Production' Controversy: A Case Study of the Senegalese Pre-colonial Social
Formation." Presented at the Rural Sociological Society annual meeting in Columbus, OH, August, 1991.
"State and Civil Society: The Dimension of Ethnicity in African Societies." Paper presented at the
American Sociological Association, annual meeting in Cincinnati, OH, August, 1991
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"The African State in Global Perspective: Recapturing the New Trends." Paper presented at the session
Political Economy in the World System of the American Sociological Association (ASA) annual meetings,
Washington, D.C., August, 1990.
"Subsistence versus Commercial Farming: Toward an Integrative Perspective." Paper presented at the
Rural Sociological Society annual meeting in Norfolk, VA, August, 1990.
"Fiscal Crisis and Neoliberal Shift in State Policy in Senegal: The Contradictions of the Dependent State."
Paper presented at the Session on the Sociology of the Dependent State of the Midwest Sociological
Society annual meetings, Chicago, April, 1990.
"Social Change and Development Strategies in the Third World: A Critical Assessment." Paper presented
at the Third World Conference, annual meeting in Chicago, 1989.
"State, Power and Conflict in Senegal." Paper presented at the Third World Conference annual meeting in
Chicago, 1989.
"Fondements Methodologiques et Techniques de la Recherche Sociale." Texte presente au seminaire
organise par l'UNESCO sur "L'Adaptabilite des Moyens de Communication aux Specificites Culturelles
des Populations du Senegal." Dakar, Mars 1987.
TALKS PRESENTED:
Democracy inAfrica: Can the Ballot Box work? Profs Moustapha Diouf, Ned Mc Mahon and Peter von
Doeep, Areas and International Studies, Maison francaise and Africa House, University of Vermont,
Februaru 2, 2007
The Social Construction of racism in the educational system , November 6, 2006, Memrial Auditorium,
Burlington, VT Channel 17
Presider of the Committee on “Democratization and Political Transparency In the 2007 legislative and
presidential elections in Senegal, March 14-19 2006
“ Debunking archaic notions about African Primitivism: The Social Meaning of African Drumming”
October 2003, Flynn Center, Burlington VT
Lecture “ Is the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) a viable strategie for African
development?”, Areas and International Studies Lecture Series, UVM, November 2003
Panelist in the Regional Symposium on “Les Strategies Politiques d’Integration des Minorities Ethniques et
Raciales dans la Region d’Aquitaine” November 2002 , Universite de Bordeaux , France.
Discussant on the Conference on the Role of Senegal in the New Economic Policies for African
Development” Dakar May 2002
“Les Enjeux de L’Election Presidentielle au Senegal.” Forum sur le Developpement en Afrique, Dakar,
Juillet, 1999
"Educational Policies in Africa." Presented at the Third Annual Sub-Saharan African Symposium at
Middlebury College, April, 1996.
Invited participant at the United Nations Convention to Combat Hunger and Desertification in Africa,
January 1994, New York City.
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TALKS PRESENTED: (Continued)
Panelist of the session on State and Civil Society in Africa, annual meeting of the African Studies
Association, December, 1993, Boston.
"A Sociological Approach to the Somalia Crisis." African Studies Program, University of Vermont,
January, 1993.
"The World Bank/IMF Structural Adjustment Policies in Africa: A Case Study of Senegal." U.V.M
International Studies Lecture Series, November, 1992.
"Dominant Culture: The Undermining of Diversity." Campus Ministries Panel on Cultural Diversity,
University of Vermont, February, 1992.
"Myths and Realities of the African Crisis." Vermont African Society, Burlington City Hall, September,
1991.
Panelist in fact-finding meeting by U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, February, 1992.
"Social Change and Development Perspectives in Senegal." Embassy for International Development,
March, 1991, Living/Learning Center, University of Vermont.
Facilitator of the panel on F.W. DeKlerk's discourse to the South African Parliament, February 2, 1991.
Africa House, Living/Learning Center, University of Vermont.
"The South African Turmoil: Exploring the Perspectives for Conflict Resolution." Vermont Academic and
Social Association, March, 1990, Living/Learning Center.
"An Analysis of Political and Social Turmoil in Liberia." International Studies Program, October 10, 1990.
INTERVIEWS GRANTED:
Channel 57 / C Span/ The Amy Goodman Show NY, Reflextions on the Impacts of the War in Irak on
African Development Prospects ,March 2003
Channel 5 (NBC), Burlington, VT on the South African Election, April 1994.
National Public Radio (NPR), Burlington, VT on the Civil War in Rwanda, May, 1994.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
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"Une Etude comparée de la question raciale et ethnique en Afrique et aux Etats Unis." A research
project in collaboration with the Centre de Documentation et d'Etude sur la question noire,
Department of Sociology, University of Bordeaux.
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Democratization and Development in Africa: An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by
Mbulelo Mzamane, Nthoana Mzamane and Moustapha Diouf
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The African State in Global Perspective.
CURRENT RESEARCH: (Continued)
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L’Etat, la Societe Civile et la democratization en Afrique: L’Experience Senegalaise” with Professor
mar Fall Universite de Bordeaux.
« Une Etude Comparee de la question raciale et ethnique en Afrique et aux Etats Unis’. A research
project in collaboration with the Centre de Documentation et d’etude sur la question noire,
Universite de bordeaux.
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ADMINISTRATIVE AND COMMITTEE SERVICE:
Member of UVM Professional Standards Committee (2005Director of International Studies at the University of Vermont (1995 -1998,,2003-2004,).
Member of the Arts & Sciences Faculty Standards Committee (1995 - 1998).
Member of the Arts & Sciences Race and Ethnicity Curriculum Committee (1992 - 1995).
Chair of the African Studies Program of the University of Vermont (1991 - 1995).
TEACHING INTERESTS:
Sociological Theories
Race and Ethnic relations
Sociology of African Societies
Development Sociology
Social Change and Development in the Third World
Comparative Perspectives of First, Second and Third World Societies
Political Economy of African Societies
Political Sociology
Social Inequality and Stratification
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
African Studies Association
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Midwest Sociological Society
Rural Sociological Society
Foundation Paix et Development
Book Reviewer for the Journal of Modern African Studies (JMAS)
Consultant for the Mid American International Agricultural Consortium (MIAC)
Consultant for the African Development Bank (Ivory Coast)
Member of the Editorial Board of Toward Freedom, a Report on Non-alignment and the Developing
Countries. Burlington, VT 05401.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: (Continued)
Moustapha Diouf
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Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of African Policy Studies.
Member of the Advisory Board of Fondation Paix et Developpement.
Member of the Comité Scientifique sur les Strategies d'Intégration des Minorités et Raciales en
France (Université de Bordeaux).
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Mention Très Bien on the M.S. oral examination at the University of Paris, 1981.
Special recognition for outstanding performance on the Ph.D. comprehensive examination at the
Department of Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1985.
Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor Society, 1990.
Nominated for the 1991 Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Teaching Excellence.
Nominated for the 1998 Kidder Award.
GRANTS:
Presinent’s Distinguished Lecture Series $5,500
Graduate College Grant of $3,480 for a research project on The Sociological Impact of the IMF and
World Bank Structural Adjustment Policies in Senegal.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Fluency in French, English and Wolof.