MANSA Officers
Kassim Koné, President
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
State University of New York at Cortland
Cortland, NY 13045
Barbara Hoffman, President-Elect
Department of Anthropology
Cleveland State University
2300 Chester Avenue
Cleveland OH 44115-3696
Dianna Bell, Secretary-Treasury
Department of Religious Studies
Vanderbilt University
VU BOX 351585
Nashville, Tennessee 37235
Advisory Board
Maria L. Ciminelli,
Università Venezia
Via Pier PaoloPasolini
51/F8, (1)
00135
Rome, Italy
José da Silva Horta
Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa
Depto de Historia
Alameda da Universidade
1600--‐124
Lisboa, Portugal
Joseph Hellweg
Florida State University
501 Blair Stone Rd, #29
Tallahassee FL, 32301
Candace Keller
813 Esperanza Place
Chula Vista, CA 91914
Bakary Traore, INSS/CNRST
Institut des Sciences des Sociétés
03 B.P. 7047
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Stephen Wooten, University of Oregon
University of Oregon
International Studies Program
5206
Eugene, OR 97403
swooten@uoregon.edu
Mark P. Worrell (Technical Advisor and Web Design)
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
SUNY Cortland
Past Officers
President, David Conrad (1986-2008)
Vice-President Barbara Hoffman (2008-2011)
Vice-President Kassim Koné (2001-2008)
Vice-President: Barbara E. Frank (1997-2001)
Vice-President: B. Marie Perinbam (1986-1997)
Secretary-Treasurer: Catherine Bogosian Ash (2003-2005)
Secretary-Treasurer: Rosa De Jorio (2001-2003)
Secretary-Treasurer (Europe): Jan Jansen (2001-2002)
Secretary-Treasurer: Stephen Wooten (1997-2001)
Secretary-Treasurer: Laura Arntson (1994-1997)
Secretary: Kathryn Green (1986-1993)
Past Advisory Board Members
Gerald Cashion, USAID, Washington DC (1986-1988)
Robert Launay, Northwestern University (1986-1997)
Lamine Sanneh, Yale University (1994-1997)
Ariane Deluz, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociologique, Paris (1994-1999)
Mamadou Diawara, Universität Bayreuth (1994-1999)
Lansiné Kaba, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (1994-1999)
Alpha Ba, College of Charleston (1997-1999)
Peter Mark, Wesleyan University (1997-2001)
Lucy Duran, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1998-2000)
Kassim Koné, State University of New York--Cortland (1998-2001)
Mirjam de Bruijn, Leiden University (1999-2001)
Yacouba Konaté, Université d'Abidjan (1999-2001)
Jeanne Toungara, Howard University (1999-2001)
Karim Traoré, University of Georgia (1999-2001)
Tereba Togola, Direction Nationale des Arts et de la Culture, Bamako (1994-2002)
Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian Institute (2000-2002)
Alma Gottlieb, University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana (2001-2003)
Patrick McNaughton Indiana University (2001-2003)
Donald Wright, State University of New York at Cortland (2001-2003)
Nehemia Levtzion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002-2003)
Mohamed Saïdou N'Daou, Chicago State University (2001-2005)
Ralph Austen, University of Chicago (2003-2005)
Rogier Bedaux, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden (2003-2005)
George Brooks, Indiana University (2003-2005)
David Henige, University of Wisconsin (2003-2005)
Susan McIntosh, Rice University (2003-2005)
