Michael A. Gomez

Michael A. Gomez (born 1955) is an American academic, historian, and author. He is the Silver Professor at New York University, noted for his work on West Africa, the African diaspora, Islam, and slavery.

Education Gomez began a BA degree at Amherst College, transferring to the University of Chicago, where he took all his subsequent degrees: a BA in US History (1981), an MA degree in African history (1982) and a PhD in African history (1985).

Career Gomez proceeded from his PhD to a position as assistant professor in the Department of History/African and Afro-American Studies in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis (1985–88).

List of publications Gomez's single-author monographs are: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018) Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) [2nd edn 2019] Black Crescent: African Muslims in the Americas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (University of North Carolina Press, 1998) Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)