Wendell Marsh

Wendell Marsh is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.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.

Publications:

• “The ultimate end of decolonization” Review of Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Context, Edited by Ousmane Kane Africa is a Country. Jan. 12, 2022. https://bit.ly/3hmXAJU

Accomplishments:

• Ford Dissertation Fellowship

• Fulbright Fellowship

The purpose of the Global Black Studies Project is to develop curricula, pedagogy, and programing that robustly casts the study of Black Life in global terms. As a long-term undertaking within the Dept. of Africana Studies at RU-N, the GBSP seeks to respond to local specificity of global realities by 1) recognizing the international and multi-ethnic character of our students, faculty, and surrounding community, and 2) collaborating with a trans-local group of community organizations and educators in Essex County and Saint-Louis, Senegal to enrich the teaching of Black studies.  

https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/what-we-do/scholarshipresearch-archive/art-culture-and-public-humanities

The urgency of reproductive politics has gained new prominence. Abortion bans sweeping the southern U.S. and family planning campaigns in West Africa amplify calls for states to secure greater access to birth-limiting technologies. However, calls for juridical and legislative solutions to ensure reproductive freedom obscure the state’s role in manufacturing these reproductive dystopias.

https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/event/reproductive-dystopias-and-black-futurity