Ibrahima Thiaw

Ibrahima Thiaw holds a PhD in Anthropology from Rice University (Houston, Texas, USA, 1999). He is an Associate Researcher at the Institut fondamental d’Afrique noire (IFAN), Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, where he manages the Archeology Laboratory. He is the Curator of IFAN’s Théodore Monod Museum of African Art. His research interests are mainly on global contacts, cultural interactions, issues of identity in historical politics, archeology, the management of cultural resources, and the study of material culture.