Penda Mbow

Penda Mbow
Mbow in Dakar
Minister of Culture
In office 2001–2001
Personal details
Born	April 1955 (age 70–71) Senegal
Occupation	University professor, activist

Penda Mbow (born 1955) is a historian, an activist, and a Senegalese politician. Minister of Culture of Senegal for several months in 2001, she is a professor at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar and president of Mouvement citoyen (Citizens' Movement).^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Penda Mbow was born in April 1955.

In 1986, she obtained a doctorate in Medieval History at Université de Provence in France, with a thesis titled L'aristocratie militaire mameluke d'après le cadastre d'Ibn al-Ji'an : éléments de comparaison avec la France (in English: The Mameluke Military Aristocracy after the Public Register of Ibn al-Ji'an: Elements of Comparison with France). Her academic research focuses on African intellectual history and Islamic gender studies. Became a professor in 2010.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and distinctions

• Fulbright Scholarship, Michigan State University
• Rockefeller Foundation award, for research at the Bellagio Center in Italy.
• Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur Francaise (Knight of the French Legion of Honor) 2003
• Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Mérite, France, 1999.^{[citation needed]}
• Honorary doctor at the University of Uppsala in January 2005.

See also

• Women in Senegal
• Gender Studies

References

External links

• (in English) "Evolving role for Senegalese women in religion", by Penda Mbow, 2009.
• (in French) Biographie et bibliographie sur le site de l'UCAD
• (in French) « Penda Mbow – Professeur d’Histoire à l’UCAD: Au commencement, une pénurie d’eau... » (interview)
• (in French) Archived 2010-05-07 at the Wayback Machine Official Website of Mouvement Citoyen