Omar H. Ali

Omar Hamid Ali (lahir 10 Februari 1971) adalah seorang sejarawan Amerika Serikat yang berspesialisasi dalam studi diaspora Afrika. Fokus penelitian utamanya meliputi sejarah gerakan politik kulit hitam independen di Amerika Serikat, Islam di wilayah Samudra Hindia, serta perlawanan orang-orang kulit hitam terhadap perbudakan di Amerika Latin.

Ali dikenal karena pendekatannya yang interdisipliner, menggabungkan analisis sejarah politik, sosial, dan budaya untuk memahami dinamika kekuasaan, identitas, dan perjuangan komunitas Afrika dan diaspora mereka. Ia telah berkontribusi pada pengembangan kajian sejarah diaspora melalui publikasi, pengajaran, dan pengawasan penelitian mahasiswa pascasarjana di bidang sejarah Afrika dan diaspora.

## Kehidupan awal dan pendidikan
Ali berasal dari latar belakang India Timur dan Peru. Ia menempuh pendidikan di London School of Economics and Political Science dan mempelajari antropologi di School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), di mana ia melakukan penelitian lapangan di Afrika Barat bersama antropolog Maxwell Owusu. Ia kemudian memperoleh Ph.D. dalam Sejarah dari Columbia University pada 2003, di bawah bimbingan sejarawan terkemuka Eric Foner.

## Karir
Ali menjabat sebagai Professor of Comparative African Diaspora History dan Dean of Lloyd International Honors College di University of North Carolina, Greensboro (UNCG). Ia menjadi anggota fakultas pada beberapa program, termasuk African American and African Diaspora Studies, History Department, dan International & Global Studies di UNCG.

Pengalaman akademiknya mencakup:

* Fulbright Professor of History and Anthropology di Universidad Nacional de Colombia
* Visiting Professor di Program for African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University
* Library Scholar di David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University

Ali juga terlibat dalam kurasi dan penelitian publik, misalnya menulis narasi untuk pameran The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World di Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture bekerja sama dengan kurator Sylviane Diouf.

Ali duduk di dewan direksi All Stars Project, IndependentVoting.org, dan Cone Health Foundation. Ia juga tampil di media internasional seperti CNN, NPR, Al Jazeera, Telemundo, C-SPAN, dan PBS.

Ali dikenal karena pendekatannya yang transnasional dan interdisipliner dalam studi diaspora Afrika, menghubungkan sejarah lokal di Amerika Serikat dengan jaringan global, termasuk Asia Selatan, Afrika Barat, dan Amerika Latin. Penelitiannya menyoroti peran politik, agama, dan budaya dalam perjuangan komunitas Afrika dan diaspora mereka, serta memperkaya pemahaman tentang gerakan kulit hitam independen, Islam di Samudra Hindia, dan perlawanan terhadap perbudakan di konteks global.

## Karya
Buku:
* *Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean* (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)
* *Islam in the Indian Ocean World: A Brief History with Documents* (Boston, MA: Bedford St. Martin's Press, 2016)
* *In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886–1900* (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010), foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley
* *In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third Party Movements in the United States* (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008), foreword by Eric Foner

Artikel ilmiah:

* “Afro-Peru: A Legacy of Black Labor and Culture,” *Revista: Harvard Review of Latin America*, Vol. XIII, No. 4 (Fall 2014)
* “Benkos Biohó: African Maroon Leadership in New Grenada,” in *Atlantic Biographies: Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World*, M. Meuwese and J. Fortin, eds. (Boston, MA: Brill, 2013)
* “The African Diaspora in Latin America: Afro-Peru and San Martin de Porres,” *New African Review*, Vol. 2, Issue 4 (Summer 2013)
* “The Mu'azzin's Song: Islam and the African Diaspora of the Indian Ocean,” *North Carolina Conversations*, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (Winter-Spring 2012)
* “Re-Conceptualizing Black Populism,” in *Southern Populism Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures*, James M. Beeby, ed. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012)
* “Black Populism: Agrarian Politics from the Colored Alliance to the People's Party,” in *Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Farmers Since Reconstruction*, Debra A. Reid and Evan P. Bennett, eds. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012)
* “Fulani's Tools and Results,” *Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International*, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2012)
* *The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World*, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library (2011)
* “Islam, Trade, and Empire,” in *Africa and the Wider World*, Hakeem Tijani, Raphael Njoku, et al., eds. (Boston, MA: Pearson, 2010)
* “Lenora Branch Fulani: Challenging the Rules of the Game,” in *African Americans and the Presidency: The Road to the White House*, B. Glasrud, et al., eds. (New York: Routledge, 2010)
* “Islam and the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World,” in *Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed* (2009)
* “Standing Guard at the Door of Liberty: Black Populism in South Carolina, 1886–1897,” *South Carolina Historical Magazine*, Vol. 107, No. 3 (July 2006)
* “Independent Black Politics,” editor, *Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society*, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring 2005)

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