Sara Thiam, PhD candidate, Anthropology
sara.thiam [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
Project title: An Ethnography of Children's Rights: West African Qur'anic Schools, Child Exploitation and Humanitarian Intervention
Topical interests: Children's rights, humanitarian aid, non-governmental organizations, rights to literacy and schooling, Islamic education in West Africa, cross-cultural childhoods, child fosterage, residential schooling, kinship
Geographic Focus: francophone West Africa, Senegal, Mali
People studied: Humanitarian actors, human rights activists, the Wolof people, the Fulani people
Main supervisor: Dr. Sandra T. Hyde
Previous education:
MA, Medical Anthropology, McGill University
BA Honors, Anthropology, University of Michigan