Credits

Funding | Contributing Scholars | Project Directors | Collaborating Institutions | Development Team

Funding

Tolerance and Diversity in the Islam of West Africa was funded by Michigan State University and a grant from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI, Section 606 "Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access" (TICFIA) program.

Information about all TICFIA grantees is available.

TICFIA Program Information
U.S. Department of Education, OPE
International Education Programs Service
Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access Program
1990 K Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20006-8521
Phone: (202) 502-7700
Fax: (202) 502-7859
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsticfia/index.html

TICFIA Program Officer
Susanna C. Easton
Program Specialist-IEPS
U.S. Department of Education
1990 K Street NW, Sixth Floor
Washington, D.C. 20006-8521
Phone: (202) 502-7628
E-mail: susanna.easton@ed.gov http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/iegps/index.html

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Contributing Scholars

Ghana Galleries
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard University, akyeamp@fas.harvard.edu
Gracia Clark, Indiana University, gclark@indiana.edu
David Owusu-Ansah, James Madison University, owusadx@jmu.edu

Senegal Galleries
Cheikh Babou, University of Pennsylvania, cheikh@sas.upenn.edu
Boubacar Barry, bbarry@organe.se
Charles Becker, beckerleschar@SENTOO.SN
Maria Grosz-Ngate, Indiana University, mgrosz@indiana.edu
Toba Diagne Haidara, Lycee Lamine Gueye, Dakar, Senegal
Fallou Ngom, Boston University, fngom@bu.edu
David Robinson, Michigan State University, robins22@msu.edu
Jennifer J. Yanco, West African Research Association, wara@bu.edu

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Collaborating Institutions

Michigan State University
Harvard University
West African Research Association
West African Research Center
Indiana University
Boston University
James Madison University
Western Washington University
African Online Digital Library
MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online

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Project Directors

Mark Kornbluh, Project Co-director
Former Director of MATRIX
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
University of Kentucky
213 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY 40506
Phone (859) 257-8354
mark.kornbluh@uky.edu

David W. Robinson, Project Co-director
History Department
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone (517) 353-8898
robins22@msu.edu

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Project Co-director
History Department
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 496-3684
akyeamp@fas.harvard.edu

David Wiley
Former Director of the African Studies Center
Department of Sociology
Michigan State University
414A Berkey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: (517) 355-7632
wiley@msu.edu

Development Team

Megan Anderson -- Data Entry
Brian Beck -- Programming
Pete Diaz -- Design
Catherine Foley -- Project Manager
Matt Geimer -- Chief Technical Officer
Cori Heacock -- Data Entry
Dan Jaquint -- Design
Chris Johnson -- Digitization
Eric Limbach -- Spec Development
Purdon Lindblad -- Digitization and Metadata
Cassi Miller -- Programming
Scott Pennington -- Head of Digitization
Emily Riley -- Metadata Creation
Caitlin Russ -- Programming
James Semivan -- Digitization
Alicia Sheill -- Spec Development

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