Awards & Honors
Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies Category
Scholarly Society American Academy of Religion · 2024 More about this awardACLS Fellows
National American Council of Learned Societies · 2022 Effective from May 2022 through December 2022 “I Cannot Write My Life”: New Perspectives on the Life and Writings of Omar ibn Said An examination of African Muslim scholar Omar Ibn Said (1770-1863), who wrote an autobiography in Arabic in 1831 while a slave in Bladen County, North Carolina. The project addresses the local and global implications of Said’s life and writings and traces their complex connections to West African and Islamic cultures. More about this awardFellowship
National The National Humanities Center · August 2021 Book project on An Intellectual History of anti-Blackness in the Arab World interrogates Arabic discourse (emphasis on literature, history, religious texts, and Arab popular culture) to uncover the trajectory and manifestations of anti-Black attitudes from pre-Islamic Arabia to the twentieth century. More about this awardExcellence in Assessment
University Assessment Office · 2020 The "Newcomer" Award, Trinity College, Duke University. Mbaye Lo, PhD, Assessment Coordinator, Asian and Middle Eastern StudiesBlue Devil of the Week
University Duke Today · February 27, 2017 BLUE DEVIL OF THE WEEK: ENCOURAGING GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS Professor Lo connects researchers studying Arabic and African issues More about this awardProgram Director Award
University Duke Global Education Office · 2016 5 years of successful leadership of Duke In the Arab World Academic ProgramVisiting Scholar
International Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAf), École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France · 2016DukeEngage Program Director Award
Other DukeEngage · November 2011CIT Faculty Fellow
University Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) · 2010 One year CIT fellowship on using technology to improve learning outcome—Language productionAlumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award
University Duke University · April 2009In the News
Published April 11, 2024
Spring Books by Duke Authors: Meditations, Baseball, Rebels and Stomach Pains
Published May 28, 2021
Lo, MacLean Receive National Humanities Fellowships to Study Overlooked Connections
Published December 8, 2020
The Joy of Mastering the Challenging Languages in Asian and Middle East Studies
