Ismail Rashid is the Marion Musser Lloyd ’32 Chair of History and International Relations at Vassar College https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/departments/history. He received his PhD in African History from McGill University. Quebec, Canada. Professor Rashid’s teaching interests are modern African history, African Diaspora, and International Relations. His research interests include subaltern resistance against colonialism, public health, and conflicts and security in contemporary Africa. Among his works are West Africa’s Security Challenges (2004 with Adekeye Adebajo), The Paradox of History and Memory in Postcolonial Sierra Leone (2013) (with Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley), Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy (2017) (with Ibrahim Abdullah) and Researching Peacebuilding in Africa (2020) (with Amy Niang). Rashid is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Council for the Development of Social Science in Africa (CODESRIA). He also mentors graduate African students and early career and rising faculty colleagues in various Africa universities through his voluntary service as an Adjunct Faculty for the African Leadership Center of King’s College, London and the University of Nairobi; and the African Peacebuilding Network of Social Science Research Council (APN-SSRC). Professor Rashid is the Chair of the History Department at Vassar College.
