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Alexis Trouillot is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on the intellectual history of mathematics in Africa, particularly examining how scientific knowledge is categorized and how Africa is positioned within historical narratives of science. His current book project, Numbers of Sand: Computing Texts in a West African Space, explores 19th-century arithmetic practices in Saharan West Africa through Arabic manuscripts.
His work interrogates the discursive constructions of 'science' and their implications for understanding Africa's role in global knowledge systems. The project has received grants from the Université Paris Cité, Fulbright Program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library, and the Carter G. Woodson Institute.
- Awards: Fulbright Program Fellowship
- Grants: Université Paris Cité, Library of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Carter G. Woodson Institute
Trouillot's scholarship bridges historical analysis with critical theory, challenging Eurocentric paradigms in the history of science by centering African intellectual traditions.
