Penda Mbow
Penda Mbow is a historian, an activist, and a Senegalese politician. Minister of Culture of Senegal for several months in 2001, she is a professor at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar and president of Mouvement citoyen.
Biography
Penda Mbow was born in April 1955.In 1986, she obtained a doctorate in Medieval History at Université de Provence in France, with a thesis titled L'aristocratie militaire mameluke d'après le cadastre d'Ibn al-Ji'an : éléments de comparaison avec la France. Her academic research focuses on African intellectual history and Islamic gender studies. Became a professor in 2010.
Awards and distinctions
- Fulbright Scholarship, Michigan State University
- Rockefeller Foundation award, for research at the Bellagio Center in Italy.
- Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur Francaise 2003
- Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Mérite, France, 1999.
- Honorary doctor at the University of Uppsala in January 2005.