Omar Ali

Omar H. Ali, Professor of AADS and Dean of Lloyd International Honors College, is a historian of the global African diaspora who explores how Africans and people of African descent have shaped the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian Ocean worlds since antiquity. Named the Carnegie Foundation North Carolina Professor of the Year in 2016 and Knight in the Order of Academic Palms by the French government in 2021, Ali is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science and received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University.