{"id":10254,"date":"2020-08-17T20:43:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T00:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10254"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:26:53","slug":"fallou-ngom","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/profile\/fallou-ngom\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallou Ngom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Affiliations<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/\">African Studies Center<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Areas of Expertise<\/h3>\n<div><i data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Islam in Africa and Ajami Studies; <\/i><i>African Muslims in the Americas; <\/i><i>African Linguistics and Sociolinguistics; <\/i><i>Interactions between Islam and African Traditional Religions<\/i><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/anthrop\/files\/2020\/08\/Fallou-Ngom-Updated-CV-Feb-17-2026.pdf\">View Professor Ngom&#8217;s CV Here &#8211; March 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span><strong>About\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span>Professor Fallou Ngom\u2019s research interests focus on the intellectual written histories of Africa, the interactions between African languages and non-African languages, the adaptations of Islam in Africa, and Ajami literatures (records of African languages written in enriched forms of the Arabic script) in Africa and the diaspora. His recent work focuses on <\/span><span>Islam and grassroots literacies in Africa, and sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology.\u00a0He\u00a0has held Fulbright, ACLS, and Guggenheim fellowships. His most recent research has been supported by the\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/eap.bl.uk\/project\/EAP1042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">British Library Endangered Archives Programme<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/securegrants.neh.gov\/publicquery\/main.aspx?f=1&amp;gn=RZ-260906-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">National Endowment for the Humanities<\/a>.\u00a0His work has appeared in\u00a0the\u00a0<i>African Studies Review, History Compass, Islamic Africa, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Language Variation and Change, and International Journal of the Sociology of Language<\/i>. His book,\u00a0<i>Muslims beyond the Arab World:\u00a0<\/i><\/span><i>The Odyssey of \u02bfAjam\u012b and the Mur\u012bdiyya<\/i>\u00a0<span>(Oxford University Press, 2016), won\u00a0<\/span><span>the 2017 Melville J. Herskovits Prize for the best book in African studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Beyond African Orality: The \u02bfAjam\u012b Poetry of S\u00ebri\u00f1 Mbay Jaxa<i>te<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025).<\/li>\n<li><span>\u201cAhmadu Bamba,\u201d\u00a0in\u00a0<i>Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History ,<\/i>\u00a01-28 (2024)<i>.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><span><u><a id=\"OWA23f3105e-5415-b72a-37e3-514dfb79bbcd\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190277734.013.336\" data-linkindex=\"0\" title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190277734.013.336\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190277734.013.336<\/a><\/u><\/span><span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u201cDigital Archives for African Studies: Making Africa\u2019s Written Heritage Visible,\u201d in<span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age<\/i>, edited by Susan L. Mizruchi (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 83-107.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAjami Literacies of West Africa,\u201d in<span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Tracing Language Movement in Africa<\/i>, Ericka A. Albaugh and Kathryn M. de Luna, editors (Oxford University Press, 2018), 143-164.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWest African Manuscripts in Arabic and African Languages and Digital Preservation,\u201d in<span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Oxford Research Encyclopedias: African History<\/i>, Thomas Spear, editor, June 2017.<i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Muslims beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of \u02bfAjam\u012b and the Mur\u012bdiyya<\/i>\u00a0(New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Courses<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>CAS AN 312 Peoples and Cultures of Africa<\/li>\n<li>CAS AN 327 Islam in Africa<\/li>\n<li>CAS AN 521 Sociolinguistics<\/li>\n<li>CAS AN 524 Language Contact in Africa<\/li>\n<li>CAS AN 532 Literacy and Islam in Africa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9123,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16806,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10254\/revisions\/16806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}