Sport and Africa: Past and Present

11:00-12:30 h. - Thursday, 19th February –Room: 40.244 (Roger de Llúria)

Dr. Mark W. Deets, Assistant Professor and Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Center for American Studies, The American University in Cairo (Egypt)

 
 

Mark W. Deets is an assistant professor of African and world history and director of the Alwaleed Center for American Studies and Research at The American University in Cairo. His research and teaching focus on 19th and 20th-century West African history, especially in the Senegambian region. His first book, A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal, was published in 2023 in the New African Histories Series of Ohio University Press. In 2025, the book was awarded the Outstanding First Book Prize by the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD). Deets has also published in History in Africa: A Journal of Debates, Methods, and Source Analysis, The Journal of African History, Cadernos de Estudos Africanos(Portugal) and the blog Africa Is a Country, among others.