Abu Bakarr Bah
Scholarly Interests
My research focuses on issues of democracy, nation building, ethnicity and the peace-making and peace-building role of the international community.
Recent Courses Taught
- Racial and Ethnic Relations
- Sociology of Education
- Sociological Theory and Migration
Awards
- 2017 United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office and PeaceNexus Foundation Grant, Methodologies to Cost Peacebuilding Needs (with Nikolas G. Emmanuel)
- 2016 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Universities as Potential Sites for Radicalization and Impacts on State-Building
- 2016 CADFP mini-grant for Conference Participation
- 2015 Outstanding International Educator Award, NIU
- 2014 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Rongo University College (Kenya) Peace and Conflict Curriculum Development and Collaboration
- 2012 Multi-Country Research Fellowship, Council of American Overseas Research Centers International State-Building: Lessons from the Civil Wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Cote d'Ivoire