Marieme Lo (academic)

Marieme Soda Lo (born 1966) is a Senegalese academic who lives in Canada. She founded the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, where she is the Director of African studies, and holds a professorial position in Women and Gender Studies.{{Cite web |date=6 February 2019 |title=Marieme Lo |url=https://www.schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/marieme-lo |access-date=2 November 2022 |website=School of Cities |language=en |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102000134/https://www.schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/marieme-lo }}

Early life and education

Marieme Lo was born in 1966 in Senegal.{{Cite web |title=Understanding and capitalizing on social learning: an asset-based approach to capacity-building and development of women's microenterprises in West Africa |url=https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/5866963 |access-date=2024-07-18 |website=Catalog entry, Cornell University Library}} Lo earned her licentiate from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, a MA from the University of Dakar and MSc and PhD from Cornell University.{{Cite web |title=Marieme Lo |url=https://www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/biography/lo-marieme/ |access-date=2024-02-18 |website=New College |language=en-US}}

Career

From 2018 to 2021, she served as the associate director for Education for the School of Cities at the University of Toronto.

Selected papers

{{Cite journal |last=Lo |first=Marieme S. |display-authors=0|date=26 February 2015 |publication-date=2016-04-02 |title=En route to New York: diasporic networks and the reconfiguration of female entrepreneurship in Senegal |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2015.1013444 |journal=Gender, Place & Culture |language=en |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=503–520 |doi=10.1080/0966369X.2015.1013444 |issn=0966-369X}}
{{Cite journal |last=Lo |first=Marieme S. |display-authors=0|date= 25 October 2017 |title=Beyond Instrumentalism: Interrogating the Micro-dynamic and Gendered and Social Impacts of Remittances in Senegal |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1177/097185240901200307 |journal=Gender, Technology and Development |language=en |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=413–437 |doi=10.1177/097185240901200307|publication-date=January 2008 |issn=0971-8524}}
{{Cite journal |last=Lo |first=Marieme S. |display-authors=0 |title=Self-Image and Self-Naming: A Discursive and Social Analysis of Women's Microenterprises in Senegal and Mali |date=2011 |journal=Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities |pages=155–178 |editor-last=Oyĕwùmí |editor-first=Oyèrónkẹ́ |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230116276_8 |access-date=18 February 2024 |place=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |language=en |doi=10.1057/9780230116276_8 |isbn=978-0-230-11627-6}}
{{Cite journal |last=Lo |first=Marieme S. |display-authors=0 |date=13 August 2013 |title=Confidant par excellence, advisors and healers: women traders' intersecting identities and roles in Senegal |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13691058.2013.793404 |journal=Culture, Health & Sexuality |language=en |volume=15 |issue=Supplement 4 |pages=S467–S481 |doi=10.1080/13691058.2013.793404 |issn=1369-1058}}
{{Cite journal |last=Lo |first=Marieme S. |display-authors=0 |date=January 2010 |title=Revisiting the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Compensation Modality, Local Communities' Discontent, and Accountability Mechanisms |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02255189.2010.9669286 |journal=Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement |language=en |volume=30 |issue=1–2 |pages=153–174 |doi=10.1080/02255189.2010.9669286 }}

References

External links

[https://www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/biography/lo-marieme/ Marieme Lo biography at New College, University of Toronto]

Category:1966 births

Category:Living people

Category:Cornell University alumni

Category:Cheikh Anta Diop University alumni

Category:Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University alumni

Category:Academic staff of the University of Toronto

Category:Canadian academics of women's studies

Category:Canadian gender studies academics

Category:Senegalese Africanists

Category:Canadian Africanists