Assan Sarr is the Director of the Center for African Studies and a Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Islam, Power and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin: The Politics of Land Control, 1790-1940 (published by the University of Rochester Press, 2016) and Sufi Networks, Fulɓe Itinerancy: A History of Islam in Senegambia, c. 1803-1996 (Michigan State University Press, forthcoming). Sarr received his PhD. in history from Michigan State University, a master’s in African Studies from Ohio University and a bachelor’s degree in history (with honors) and Development Studies from the University of The Gambia.
