Conversation & Connections with Wendell Marsh: Religious Readings of a West African Sufi
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University-Newark proudly continued its Conversation & Connection series with a feature presentation by Wendell Marsh, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.
His presentation was titled "Religious Readings of a West African Sufi."
About the Presenter:
Wendell Marsh is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Newark and the 2023-2024 cohort of Early Career Faculty Fellows at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. He received a PhD from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and from the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University in 2018. His scholarship focuses on African-Arabic textuality, the intellectual history of Islam in Africa and the African Diaspora, and religious studies. His first research project focuses on texts by and about the Muslim polymath from colonial Senegal Shaykh Musa Kamara. He has been awarded the Fulbright fellowship, a Ford dissertation fellowship, and a postdoc at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University.
