Mohamed Sesay is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the African Studies Program in the Department of Social Science at York University. He is also a UKRI GCRF Visiting Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. Specializing in International Relations and Comparative Politics, his research and teaching interests are in development, transitional justice, international criminal justice, rule of law, customary justice, peacebuilding, and post-conflict reconstruction particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. He is co-investigator for a UKRI GCRF project titled Land Policy, Gender Justice, and Dual Legal Systems. Mohamed Sesay is the author of Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa. His works have also been published in several peer reviewed journals including International Studies Perspectives, Cooperation & Conflict, African Affairs, and European Journal of International Security, and Third World Quarterly.
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Degrees
Ph.D, McGill University
MA, University of Alberta
MPhil., University of Sierra Leone
Mohamed Sesay is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the African Studies Program in the Department of Social Science at York University. He is also a UKRI GCRF Visiting Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. Specializing in International Relations and Comparative Politics, his research and teaching interests are in development, transitional justice, international criminal justice, rule of law, customary justice, peacebuilding, and post-conflict reconstruction particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. He is co-investigator for a UKRI GCRF project titled Land Policy, Gender Justice, and Dual Legal Systems. Mohamed Sesay is the author of Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa. His works have also been published in several peer reviewed journals including International Studies Perspectives, Cooperation & Conflict, African Affairs, and European Journal of International Security, and Third World Quarterly.
Degrees
Ph.D, McGill University
MA, University of Alberta
MPhil., University of Sierra Leone
Current Courses
Term |
Course Number |
Section |
Title |
Type |
Winter 2025 |
AP/SOSC3005 3.0 |
M |
Special Topics in ISS |
SEMR |
Fall/Winter 2024 |
AP/SOSC2480 6.0 |
A |
Introduction to African Studies |
ONLN |