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Shobana Shankar

Stony Brook University, United States

Shobana Shankar is professor of African and global history whose research and teaching focus on cultural encounters and politics in colonial and postcolonial West Africa and Africa-India networks, especially in religion, intellectual history, and popular culture. Her most recent book, An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race (Oxford/Hurst 2021) is the first history of how race and racialization have brought Africans and Indians together, yet also driven them apart. It was a finalist for the International Studies Association’s Global Development Section book award and the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora P. Sterling Stuckey book prize, and recognized by the Convention of Asia Scholars Social Sciences Book Prize committee. Her other books include Who Shall Enter Paradise? Christian Origins in Muslim Northern Nigeria, c.1890-1975 (Ohio University Press), Religions on the Move: New Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World (Brill, 2013), and Transforming Religious Landscapes in Africa: The Sudan Interior Mission, Past and Present (Africa World Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in Public Culture, Comparative Studies of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, and other journals. She is founder and co-editor of book series, African Religions, Social Realities (Ohio University Press).

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