Ismail Rashid is the Marion Musser Lloyd '32 Chair of History and International Relations at Vassar College. He received his PhD in African History from McGill University. Rashid’s teaching interests are modern African history, African Diaspora, and International Relations. His research interests include subaltern resistance against colonialism, public health, and conflicts and security in contemporary Africa. Among his works are West Africa’s Security Challenges (2004 with Adekeye Adebajo), The Paradox of History and Memory in Postcolonial Sierra Leone (2013) (with Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley) and Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy (2017) (with Ibrahim Abdullah) and Researching Peacebuilding in Africa (2020) (with Amy Niang).  Rashid also mentors graduate African students and rising faculty colleagues in various Africa universities through his voluntary service as an Adjunct faculty for African Leadership Center of King’s College London and the University of Nairobi; and the African Peacebuilding Network of Social Science Research Council (APN-SSRC).  I will be chairing the history department at Vassar from Fall 2024 - Fall 2027.