Mahmood Mamdani

Sen. Mahmood Mamdani was appointed Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University in 1999.

Professor Mamdani received honorary doctorates from University of Johannesburg and Addis Ababa University, both in 2010. He received the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award in 2011and was elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2017. Professpr Mamdani was listed as one of the “Top 20 Public Intellectuals” by Foreign Policy (U.S.) and Prospect (U.K.) magazine in 2008, and among ‘the world’s top 50 thinkers, 2021’ by Prospect Magazine (UK). Professor Mamdani has written extensively on political identity and political violence. His latest work, Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities, Harvard, 2022, was shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, 2021, and as World History Finalist by Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards), 2021.