Ismail Rashid

Professor Vassar College

Ismail Rashid grew up in Freetown, Sierra Leone and has been teaching at Vassar College since 1998. He received his B.A. Hons  from the University of Ghana, M.A from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada and Ph.D  from McGill University. His primary teaching interests are precolonial and modern African history, and enslavement, resistance and African Diaspora. His research interests include subaltern resistance against colonialism and social and military conflicts in contemporary Africa. Mr. Rashid has been teaching at Vassar College since 1998. His recent publications include “The Student Radicals, the urban Lumpen Youth and the Origins of ‘Revolutionary’ Groups in Sierra Leone, 1977-1996″ & “Smallest Victims; Youngest Killers: Juvenile Combatants in Sierra Leone’s Civil War,” (co-authored with Ibrahim Abdullah, in Democracy and Terror: The Sierra Leone Civil War (2003): 66-89 & 238-254 and West Africa’s Security Challenges (2004) (co-edited with A. Adebajo).

Dr. Rashid presented a paper at the LCMSDS conference on current challenges in Sierra Leone and will continue to work with the Centre on issues related to security in West Africa.

israshid@vassar.edu