Biography
Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian and an exhibition curator. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice Brown University and at Lloyd International Honors College, University of North Carolina Greensboro. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Maison des Esclaves project on Goree Island, Senegal, and is on the Board of Trustees of the African Diaspora International Film Festival.
Diouf is the author of Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons; Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas; Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, which received the 2007 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association, the 2009 Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Association and was a finalist for the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.
She has written books for children. Kings and Queens of West Africa won the African Studies Association 2001 Africana Book Award for Older Readers. Her illustrated book Bintou's Braids has been translated into French, Japanese and Portuguese.
Diouf has curated a dozen online and on site exhibitions, including Black Power!, Ready for the Revolution, In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World, Africana Age, and Africans in India.