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
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)
