# Curriculum vitae

**Frédérick Madore, PhD**: Historian | Digital Humanities & AI | Data Curator & Researcher, University of Bayreuth

- **Address:** Universität Bayreuth, Forschungszentrum für Afrikastudien, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447 Bayreuth, Room 1.08
- **Email:** [frederick.madore@uni-bayreuth.de](mailto:frederick.madore@uni-bayreuth.de)
- **Website:** [www.frederickmadore.com](https://www.frederickmadore.com)
- **Profiles:** [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederickmadore/), [GitHub](https://github.com/fmadore), [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0959-2092)

As of 22 October 2026. The same record is on the [web page](https://www.frederickmadore.com/cv), and its career sections are available as [JSON](https://www.frederickmadore.com/api/cv.json); publications and talks have datasets of their own, [publications.json](https://www.frederickmadore.com/api/publications.json) and [communications.json](https://www.frederickmadore.com/api/communications.json). Publication, talk and project titles link to their Markdown records.

## Professional appointments

- **2026–** Data Curator, Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple”, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
- **2026–28** Co-Principal Investigator, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
  - Islam’s ‘Peripheries’: Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia (Volkswagen Foundation, with Aksana Ismailbekova)
- **2025** Visiting Scholar, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), France.
- **2021–25** Research Fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Germany.
- **2020** Part-Time Professor, Department of History, University of Ottawa, Canada.
- **2018–20** Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for African Studies, University of Florida, United States.

## Education

### Degrees

- **2018** PhD in History. Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.
  - Dissertation: “Rivalités et collaborations entre ainés et cadets sociaux dans les milieux associatifs islamiques en Côte d’Ivoire et au Burkina Faso (1970-2017)”
  - Co-advisors: Muriel Gomez-Perez and Cédric Jourde (University of Ottawa)
- **2013** M.A. in History. Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.
- **2010** B.A. in History. Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.

### Digital humanities trainings

- **2023** “HUJI-FUB Digital Humanities Winter School”. Hebrew University, Mount Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel, 27 February-1 March.
- **2023** “Les humanités numériques dans les projets de recherche”. École d’hiver EnExDi, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, 23-27 January.
- **2022** “Digital Archives: Reading and Manipulating Large-Scale Catalogues, Curating and Creating Small-Scale Archives”. 12th European Summer University in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 2-12 August.

### Certificates

- **2017** Arabic Language Certificate. Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.

## Publications

### Books

- **2025** [*Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin: Christian and Muslim Students Navigating Authoritarianism and Laïcité, 1970–2023*](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/religious-activism-campuses.md). Berlin: De Gruyter. [doi:10.1515/9783111428895](https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111428895)
  - Reviewed in [*Research Africa Reviews*](https://researchafrica.duke.edu/sites/default/files/-5-7-Religious-Activism-on-Campuses-in-Togo-and-Benin-Issue3-2025.pdf), [*The Journal of Modern African Studies*](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X25101195), [*African Studies Review*](https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2025.10172), and [*The American Historical Review*](https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhag129).
- **2023** Abdoulaye Sounaye and **Frédérick Madore** (eds.), [*Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences*](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/religiosity-university-campuses.md). Berlin: LIT Verlag. [doi:10.58144/20241107-000](https://doi.org/10.58144/20241107-000)
- **2016** [*La construction d’une sphère publique musulmane en Afrique de l’Ouest*](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/sphere-publique-musulmane.md). Québec/Paris: Presses de l’Université Laval/Hermann. [doi:10.58144/20241205-000](https://doi.org/10.58144/20241205-000)
  - Reviewed in [*The Journal of African History*](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853719000677), [*Cahiers d’études africaines*](https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.25055), [*Afrique contemporaine*](https://doi.org/10.3917/afco.261.0270), and [*Le Manuscrit*](https://revuehis.uqam.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/Christine-Chevalier-Caron-afrique-de-lOuest.pdf).

### Guest edited journals

- **2022** **Frédérick Madore** and Dorothea Schulz (eds.), [“Muslim Minorities in Africa, Part 2”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/muslim-minorities-africa-2.md). *Islamic Africa* 13 (1). [Link](https://brill.com/view/journals/iafr/13/1/iafr.13.issue-1.xml)
- **2021** **Frédérick Madore** and Dorothea Schulz (eds.), [“Muslim Minorities in Africa, Part 1”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/muslim-minorities-africa-1.md). *Islamic Africa* 12 (2). [Link](https://brill.com/view/journals/iafr/12/2/iafr.12.issue-2.xml)
- **2017** Pamela Millet-Mouity and **Frédérick Madore** (eds.), [“Les acteurs religieux africains à l’ère du numérique”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/acteurs-religieux-numerique.md). *Émulations* (24). [doi:10.14428/emulations.024](https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.024)

### Journal articles

- **Forthcoming** [“When AI Meets the Archive: Transforming the Islam West Africa Collection with Large Language Models”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/ai-meets-archive-iwac-llm-2026.md). *African Studies Review*.
- **Forthcoming** [“Trier, coder, interpréter : comment l’IA redistribue le travail de l’historien face à 30 000 sources sur l’islam ouest-africain”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/trier-coder-interpreter-ia-historien-2026.md). *Journal of West African History* 12 (2).
- **2022** [“A Beninese Imam’s Controversial 2019 Election Campaign: Muslim Leadership and Political Engagement in a Minority Context”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/beninese-imam-election-2022.md). *Islamic Africa* 13 (1): 1-26. [doi:10.1163/21540993-01202004](https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01202004)
- **2021** [“La Collection Islam Burkina Faso : promesses et défis des humanités numériques”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/islam-burkina-faso-collection-2021.md). *Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique*. [doi:10.51185/journals/rhca.2021.e610](https://doi.org/10.51185/journals/rhca.2021.e610)
- **2021** [“‘Good Muslim, bad Muslim’ in Togo: religious minority identity construction amid a sociopolitical crisis (2017-2018)”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/good-muslim-bad-muslim-togo-2021.md). *The Journal of Modern African Studies* 59 (2): 197-217. [doi:10.1017/S0022278X21000094](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X21000094)
- **2020** [“Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/francophone-muslim-intellectuals-burkina-faso-2020.md). *Africa* 90 (3): 625-646. [doi:10.1017/S0001972020000108](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972020000108)
- **2020** [“Muslim Feminist, Media Sensation, and Religious Entrepreneur: Aminata Kane Koné as a Figure of Success in Côte d’Ivoire”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/muslim-feminist-media-cote-divoire-2020.md). *Africa Today* 67 (2-3): 17-38. [doi:10.2979/africatoday.67.2_3.02](https://doi.org/10.2979/africatoday.67.2_3.02)
- **2018** **Frédérick Madore** and Yssoufou Traoré. [“L’organisation du hadj en Côte d’Ivoire: entre facteur de cohésion et source de rivalités au sein de la communauté musulmane (1993-2010)”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/hadj-cote-divoire-2018.md). *Cahiers d’études africaines* (229): 179-208. [doi:10.4000/etudesafricaines.21880](https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.21880)
- **2017** Rosalind I. J. Hackett, **Frédérick Madore** and Pamela Millet-Mouity. [“Interview with Rosalind I. J. Hackett on Religion and Digital Media Trends in Africa”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/hackett-interview-digital-media-2017.md). *Émulations* (24): 125-133. [doi:10.14428/emulations.024.008](https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.024.008)
- **2017** Pamela Millet-Mouity and **Frédérick Madore**. [“Pour de nouvelles études sur les acteurs religieux africains à l’ère du numérique”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/religious-actors-digital-era-2017.md). *Émulations* (24): 11-22. [doi:10.14428/emulations.024.001](https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.024.001)
- **2016** **Frédérick Madore** and Muriel Gomez-Perez. [“Muslim Women in Burkina Faso since the 1970s: Toward Recognition as Figures of Religious Authority?”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/muslim-women-burkina-faso-2016.md). *Islamic Africa* 7 (2): 185-209. [doi:10.1163/21540993-00702001](https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-00702001)
- **2016** [“The New Vitality of Salafism in Côte d’Ivoire: Toward a Radicalization of Ivoirian Islam?”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/salafism-cote-divoire-2016.md). *Journal of Religion in Africa* 46 (4): 417-452. [doi:10.1163/15700666-12340090](https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340090)
- **2016** [“Islam, médias, mise en place du Sénat et article 37 de la Constitution: changement de paradigme au Burkina Faso (1991–2014)?”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/islam-medias-senat-burkina-faso-2016.md). *Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines* 50 (1): 7-27. [doi:10.1080/00083968.2015.1101008](https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2015.1101008)
- **2016** [“L’islam ivoirien et burkinabé à l’ère du numérique 2.0”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/islam-ivoirien-burkinabe-numerique-2016.md). *Journal des anthropologues* (146-147): 151-178. [doi:10.4000/jda.6525](https://doi.org/10.4000/jda.6525)
- **2013** Muriel Gomez-Perez and **Frédérick Madore**. [“Prêcheurs(ses) musulman(e)s et stratégies de communication au Burkina Faso depuis 1990 : des processus différentiés de conversion interne”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/precheurs-musulmans-burkina-faso-2013.md). *Théologiques* 21 (2): 121-157. [doi:10.7202/1028465ar](https://doi.org/10.7202/1028465ar)

### Book chapters

- **Forthcoming** [“L’ambition fédératrice à l’épreuve de la diversité : étude comparative des faîtières islamiques au Burkina Faso, Togo, Bénin et Côte d’Ivoire”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/ambition-federatrice-faitieres-islamiques-2026.md). In André Chappatte and Bourahima Diomandé (eds.), *Vie associative et pratiques organisationnelles en Afrique de l’Ouest : saisir les associations par leur architecture bureaucratique*. Paris: Africae.
- **2026** **Frédérick Madore** and Codjo Fiacre Anato. [“Repenser la catégorisation religieuse à partir du Bénin, terre du Vodun”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/repenser-categorisation-religieuse-benin-2026.md). In Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron, and Aurélien Dasré (eds.), *L’Afrique des religions à l’épreuve des chiffres et des catégorisations*. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose-Hémisphères éditions, 25-48. [Link](https://www.hemisphereseditions.com/l-afrique-des-religions)
- **2024** **Frédérick Madore** and Louis Audet Gosselin. [“Religion on the Internet and New Information and Communication Technologies in Burkina Faso”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/religion-internet-burkina-faso-2024.md). In Alice Degorce, Ludovic O. Kibora, and Katrin Langewiesche (eds.), *Religious Encounters and Social Dynamics in Burkina Faso*. Dakar: Amalion, 263-288. [doi:10.62010/amal4/9782359261141.003.0016](https://doi.org/10.62010/amal4/9782359261141.003.0016)
- **2023** [“Exister en contexte autoritaire : les associations étudiantes chrétiennes et islamiques à l’Université de Lomé sous Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 1970–2005”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/exister-contexte-autoritaire-lome-2023.md). In Abdoulaye Sounaye and Frédérick Madore (eds.), *Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences*. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 51-83. [doi:10.58144/20241107-000](https://doi.org/10.58144/20241107-000)
- **2023** Abdoulaye Sounaye and **Frédérick Madore**. [“Introduction: Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/introduction-religiosity-university-campuses-2023.md). In Abdoulaye Sounaye and Frédérick Madore (eds.), *Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences*. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 3-21. [doi:10.58144/20241107-000](https://doi.org/10.58144/20241107-000)
- **2023** **Frédérick Madore** and Issouf Binaté. [“Islam on University Campuses in Côte d’Ivoire since the 1970s: Muslim Intellectuals and Francophone Salafism”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/islam-university-campuses-cote-divoire-2023.md). In Abdoulaye Sounaye and Frédérick Madore (eds.), *Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences*. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 273-307. [doi:10.58144/20241107-000](https://doi.org/10.58144/20241107-000)
- **2021** **Frédérick Madore** and Andrée-Ann Brassard. [“Du plan au brouillon : l’essentiel pour structurer ses idées et éviter le syndrome de la page blanche”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/plan-brouillon-structurer-idees-2021.md). In Florence Piron and Élisabeth Arsenault (eds.), *Guide décolonisé et pluriversel de formation à la recherche en sciences sociales et humaines*. Québec: Éditions science et bien commun. [Link](https://scienceetbiencommun.pressbooks.pub/projetthese/chapter/faire-une-table-des-matieres/)
- **2020** [“Imams, Islamic Preachers, and Public Space in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) since the 1990s: Toward New Intergenerational Relationships and a Muslim Public Sphere”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/imams-islamic-preachers-ouagadougou-2020.md). In Lady Jane Acquah and Toyin Falola (eds.), *Perspectives on the Religious Landscape in Africa*. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 183-213. [Link](https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531007317/Perspectives-on-Religious-Landscape-in-Africa)
- **2019** **Frédérick Madore** and Louis Audet Gosselin. [“Le religieux sur Internet et dans les NTIC au Burkina Faso”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/religieux-internet-ntic-burkina-faso-2019.md). In Alice Degorce, Ludovic O. Kibora, and Katrin Langewiesche (eds.), *Rencontres religieuses et dynamiques sociales au Burkina Faso*. Dakar: Amalion, 269-296. [Link](https://www.amalion.net/catalogue/rencontres-religieuses-et-dynamiques-sociales-au-burkina-faso/)
- **2016** Kathéry Couillard, **Frédérick Madore** and Muriel Gomez-Perez. [“Leaders of National and Transnational Muslim NGOs in Burkina Faso: Diverse Forms and Experiences of Islamic Civic Engagement”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/leaders-muslim-ngos-burkina-faso-2016.md). In Marie Nathalie LeBlanc and Louis Audet Gosselin (eds.), *Faith and Charity: Religion and Humanitarian Assistance in West Africa*. London: Pluto Press, 105-123. [doi:10.2307/j.ctt1gk0810.11](https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1gk0810.11)

### Working papers

- **2026** **Frédérick Madore**, Vincent Hiribarren, Agata Błoch et al. [“For Whom and For What Purpose? A Position Paper on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/for-whom-for-what-purpose-dh-ai-african-studies-2026.md). *ZMO Programmatic Texts* 16. Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient. [doi:10.58144/20260827-000](https://doi.org/10.58144/20260827-000)

### Report

- **2022** [“Lutte contre le terrorisme et sécuritisation du salafisme au Bénin et au Togo: instrumentalisations diverses d’une ‘menace étrangère’”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/lutte-terrorisme-salafisme-benin-togo-2022.md). *Bulletin FrancoPaix* 7 (8), 2-7. [Link](https://dandurand.uqam.ca/publication/lutte-contre-le-terrorisme-et-securitisation-du-salafisme-au-benin-et-au-togo-instrumentalisations-diverses-dune-menace-etrangere/)

### Encyclopedia entry

- **2014** **Frédérick Madore** and Muriel Gomez-Perez. [“Communauté Musulmane du Burkina Faso”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/communaute-musulmane-burkina-faso-2014.md). In *The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three*, Brill. [doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_com_27698](https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_com_27698)

### Bulletin articles

- **2026** [“From Conversation to Co-authorship: A Workshop on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies, 18–20 February 2026, Herrenhausen, Hanover”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/madore-2026-conversation-coauthorship-dh-ai.md). *ZMO Bulletin* (48): 10. [doi:10.58144/20260430-000](https://doi.org/10.58144/20260430-000)
- **2026** [“Decentering Knowledge: Concepts, Conceptualizations, Translations, 13–14 October 2025, ZMO”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/madore-2026-decentering-knowledge.md). *ZMO Bulletin* (48): 6-7. [doi:10.58144/20260430-000](https://doi.org/10.58144/20260430-000)
- **2026** [“From Private Database to Public Resource to a Testing Ground for AI Methods: The Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/madore-2026-iwac-private-database-public-resource.md). *Shared World - People, Faiths, Ideas, Practices: New Directions in Research 2023-2025, Jahrbuch*: 113-120. [doi:10.58144/20260302-000](https://doi.org/10.58144/20260302-000)
- **2025** [“Perspectives in Motion: Conceptual Fields from the Global South, Workshop, 2-3 December 2024, ZMO”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/madore-2025-perspectives-in-motion.md). *ZMO Bulletin* (46): 7. [doi:10.58144/20250401-000](https://doi.org/10.58144/20250401-000)
- **2024** [“Launch Islam West Africa Collection, 9 November 2023, MiCT, Berlin/Online”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/madore-2024-launch-iwac.md). *ZMO Bulletin* (44): 9. [doi:10.58144/20240415-000](https://doi.org/10.58144/20240415-000)

### Blog posts

- **2026** **Frédérick Madore** and Vincent Hiribarren. [“Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities und Künstliche Intelligenz in den African Studies”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/charting-new-territory-digital-humanities-ki-african-studies-2026.md). *Digital History Bielefeld*, 31 March. [doi:10.58079/15z9p](https://doi.org/10.58079/15z9p)
- **2022** Rand El Zein and **Frédérick Madore**. [“Three Questions to Dr. Frédérick Madore”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/three-questions-madore-2022.md). *Remoboko blog*, 7 April. [doi:10.58079/tldm](https://doi.org/10.58079/tldm)
- **2018** Vincent Hiribarren, Pamela Millet-Mouity and **Frédérick Madore**. [“Religions numériques en Afrique”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/religions-numeriques-afrique-2018.md). *Africa4. Regards croisés sur l’Afrique*, 19 September. [Link](https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2018/09/19/religions-numeriques-en-afrique_1816717/)

### Conference proceedings

- **2026** Jiayu Yang, Durgesh Nandini, **Frédérick Madore** et al. [“Beyond Keywords: Training-Free Entity Linking for Research Metadata via Cross-Lingual Retrieval Consensus”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/beyond-keywords-entity-linking-research-metadata-2026.md). In *Proceedings of the 26th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries*. [doi:10.1145/3805696.3846031](https://doi.org/10.1145/3805696.3846031)
- **2017** [“Le nouveau dynamisme du salafisme en Côte d’Ivoire: vers une radicalisation de l’islam ivoirien?”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/salafism-cote-ivoire-mande-2017.md). In *Les Actes du Dixième Congrès International de l’Association des Études Mandé. Aux carrefours des identités: cohabitation, conflit, et réconciliation en Afrique de l’Ouest et dans les diasporas*. [Link](https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01691275)
- **2013** [“Imams, prêcheurs et visibilité nouvelle de l’islam à Ouagadougou depuis 1991 : entre recompositions intergénérationnelles et sphère publique musulmane”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/imams-precheurs-ouagadougou-2013.md). In *Actes du 12e colloque international étudiant du Département d’histoire de l’Université Laval*. [Link](https://www.erudit.org/en/books/actes-des-colloques-dartefact/actes-12e-colloque-international-etudiant-departement-dhistoire-luniversite--978-2-9816015-1-3/004329co/)

## Grants and fellowships

- **2026–28** [Open Up – New Research Spaces for the Humanities and Cultural Studies](https://projektdatenbank.volkswagenstiftung.de/projekt/0200839), Volkswagen Foundation.
  - 332,390 EUR
  - Co-applicant: Aksana Ismailbekova
- **2026** Organisation of a conference, DFG Programme Point Sud.
  - 60,410 EUR
  - Co-applicants: Vincent Hiribarren, Emmanuel Ngue Um, Menno van Zaanen
- **2025–26** [Scoping Workshops](https://projektdatenbank.volkswagenstiftung.de/projekt/0200686), Volkswagen Foundation.
  - 53,670 EUR
  - Co-applicant: Vincent Hiribarren
- **2023** [Support for an international conference](https://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de/cms/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Jahresbericht-der-Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung-2023.pdf), Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
  - 20,000 EUR
  - Co-applicant: Abdoulaye Sounaye
- **2018–20** [Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship](https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.8664929), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
  - 140,000 CAD
- **2018–20** Canada Postdoctoral Research Award, SSHRC.
  - 81,000 CAD \[Turned Down\]
- **2013–15** Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program Doctoral Scholarships, SSHRC.
  - 105,000 CAD
- **2013–15** Doctoral Research Scholarship, Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FRQSC).
  - 80,000 CAD \[Turned Down\]
- **2011–12** Master’s Research Scholarship, FRQSC.
  - 15,000 CAD
- **2010–11** Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program Master’s Scholarships, SSHRC.
  - 17,500 CAD

## Awards and honours

- **2023** [Emerging Open Scholarship Award](https://etcl.uvic.ca/2023/01/17/2023-open-scholarship-awards/), Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI).
- **2022** Author of the month, Africa Today.
- **2018** Honour Roll of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Université Laval.
- **2017** Excellence in Publication Award, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l’Afrique et le Moyen-Orient (CIRAM), Université Laval.
- **2015** [Assistance to Publishing Award](https://web.archive.org/web/20240910152141/https://www.fonds-gerard-dion.org/la-construction-dune-sphere-publique-musulmane-en-afrique-de-louest), Fonds Gérard-Dion, Université Laval.
- **2013** Honour Roll of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Université Laval.
- **2010** [Jean-Guy Paquet Scholarship](https://nouvelles.ulaval.ca/2010/04/07/fonds-de-bourses-jean-guy-paquet-4eb1092d-02cd-442a-8ff3-d9a62d76c33d), Université Laval.
- **2010** Department of History Award of Excellence, Université Laval.
- **2007** Excellence Scholarship for admission to the B.A. in History, Université Laval.

## Digital humanities projects

- **2026–** [Genocide at the Security Council](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/genocide-at-the-security-council.md)
  - A reproducible pipeline and interactive dashboard tracing how the word genocide was used across 167,642 UN Security Council speeches, 1946–2024, with every figure traceable to the script that made it.
  - Site: [fmadore.github.io/genocide-at-the-security-council](https://fmadore.github.io/genocide-at-the-security-council/)
  - Code: [genocide-at-the-security-council](https://github.com/fmadore/genocide-at-the-security-council)
  - Data: [Source corpus (Dataverse)](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CKPTRB)
- **2026–** [IWAC MCP Server](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac-mcp-server.md)
  - An open-source connector that lets AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT search, read and analyse the Islam West Africa Collection, with every answer linked back to its sources.
  - Site: [islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/page/ai-access](https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/page/ai-access)
  - Code: [github.com/fmadore/iwac-mcp-server](https://github.com/fmadore/iwac-mcp-server) · [Software DOI (Zenodo)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21805837)
- **2026** [Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (AMIRA)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/amira.md)
  - The research-data platform of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence: one place to search, map and connect thousands of research items, projects, people, publications, podcasts and videos from partner centres in Africa, Brazil and Germany.
  - Site: [data.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/s/amira](https://data.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/s/amira)
  - Code: [DRE-theme](https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment/DRE-theme) · [DRESearch](https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment/DRESearch) · [DRE-Visualizations](https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment/DRE-Visualizations) · [DRE-LinkedData](https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment/DRE-LinkedData) · [DRE-SEO](https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment/DRE-SEO) · [omeka-s-docker](https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment/omeka-s-docker) · [amira-mcp-server](https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment/amira-mcp-server)
- **2026** [Global Heshmat](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/global-heshmat.md)
  - An interactive map and archive following the public artworks of the Egyptian sculptor Hassan Heshmat across ten countries, and the people who shaped his career. Developed for the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO).
  - Site: [heshmat.zmo.de](https://heshmat.zmo.de/)
  - Code: [Global-Heshmat](https://github.com/ZMO-Berlin/Global-Heshmat)
- **2026** [IWAC AI Pipelines](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac-ai-pipelines.md)
  - Open-source Python pipelines that use AI models to transcribe, index, summarise and analyse the Islam West Africa Collection, with every result traceable to the model that produced it.
  - Code: [iwac-ai-pipelines](https://github.com/fmadore/iwac-ai-pipelines) · [AI-NER-Validator](https://github.com/fmadore/AI-NER-Validator) · [Software DOI (Zenodo)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21804210)
- **2026** [Live Translation and Subtitles](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/live-translation.md)
  - A Windows app that puts live captions and translations over meetings, video calls and slides, offline with Whisper or through Gemini, OpenAI and Mistral. Built for a bilingual workshop at STIAS, now in the Microsoft Store.
  - Site: [Microsoft Store](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PFB8LR3RR9X) · [STIAS workshop website](https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/)
  - Code: [Live-translation](https://github.com/fmadore/Live-translation) · [stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026](https://github.com/fmadore/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026)
- **2026** [Omeka S Docker Template](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/omeka-s-docker.md)
  - A self-installing Docker template that lets research teams run their own Omeka S digital archive, secure, easy to update and backed up, without being system administrators.
  - Code: [omeka-s-docker](https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment/omeka-s-docker) · [am-omeka-s-docker-bootstrap](https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment/am-omeka-s-docker-bootstrap)
- **2026** [RAIS Publications](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/rais-publications.md)
  - Embeddable visualisations of the publications of the University of Bayreuth’s Research Center for AI in Science and Society (RAIS): a semantic map, keyword and co-author networks, and a dashboard, rebuilt every week from the university repository.
  - Site: [fmadore.github.io/RAIS-Publications](https://fmadore.github.io/RAIS-Publications/)
  - Code: [RAIS-Publications](https://github.com/fmadore/RAIS-Publications)
  - Data: [RAIS publications in ERef Bayreuth](https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/view/divisions/310022.html)
- **2025–26** [Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/dh-ai-african-studies.md)
  - The website of a VolkswagenStiftung scoping workshop held in Hanover in February 2026: its programme and 26 participants, a bibliography of over 200 works, a concept map of the literature, six filmed interviews and the position paper it produced.
  - Site: [fmadore.github.io/dh-ai-african-studies-2026](https://fmadore.github.io/dh-ai-african-studies-2026/) · [Position paper (ZMO Programmatic Texts)](https://doi.org/10.58144/20260827-000)
  - Code: [dh-ai-african-studies-2026](https://github.com/fmadore/dh-ai-african-studies-2026)
- **2025–26** [IWAC Sentiment Analysis](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac-sentiment-analysis.md)
  - An interactive dashboard comparing how five AI models read the tone of more than 12,000 West African press articles on Islam, where they agree, and where they part ways.
  - Site: [iwac.frederickmadore.com/sentiment-analysis](https://iwac.frederickmadore.com/sentiment-analysis/)
  - Code: [IWAC-sentiment-analysis](https://github.com/fmadore/IWAC-sentiment-analysis) · [Software DOI (Zenodo)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21806223)
- **2025–26** [ZMO AI Pipelines](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/zmo-ai-pipelines.md)
  - Google Colab notebooks that let researchers transcribe interviews, read scanned and handwritten documents, and summarise sources with AI, with no installation and a record of how every result was made.
  - Code: [github.com/fmadore/zmo-ai-pipelines](https://github.com/fmadore/zmo-ai-pipelines)
- **2025–26** [ZMO Visualisations](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/zmo-visualisations.md)
  - Two web apps built from data scraped monthly from the ZMO website: a word explorer showing what each research unit writes about, and a dashboard of the institute’s complete publication record since 1994.
  - Site: [zmo-berlin.github.io/visualisations/en](https://zmo-berlin.github.io/visualisations/en/) · [Word cloud](https://zmo-berlin.github.io/visualisations/units_wordcloud/en/) · [Publications dashboard](https://zmo-berlin.github.io/visualisations/publications_dashboard/en/)
  - Code: [ZMO-Berlin/visualisations](https://github.com/ZMO-Berlin/visualisations)
- **2023–** [Islam West Africa Collection](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac.md)
  - An open-access archive of nearly 21,000 newspapers, Islamic publications, recordings and documents on Islam and Muslims in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Nigeria and Togo.
  - Site: [islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica](https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica) · [islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest](https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest)
  - Code: [IwacSearch](https://github.com/fmadore/IwacSearch) · [IwacVisualizations](https://github.com/fmadore/IwacVisualizations) · [IWAC-SEO](https://github.com/fmadore/IWAC-SEO) · [IWAC-theme](https://github.com/fmadore/IWAC-theme) · [iwac-vocabulary](https://github.com/fmadore/iwac-vocabulary) · [IWAC-Hugging-Face](https://github.com/fmadore/IWAC-Hugging-Face)
  - Data: [huggingface.co/datasets/fmadore/islam-west-africa-collection](https://huggingface.co/datasets/fmadore/islam-west-africa-collection)
  - Review: [Anaïs Wion, “Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis”, *The Digital Orientalist* 23 September 2025.](https://digitalorientalist.com/2025/09/23/islam-west-africa-collection-dataset-distant-reading-and-uses-of-ai-for-discourse-analysis/)
- **2023–** [IWAC Bibliographic Data on Wikidata](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac-bibliographic-data-wikidata.md)
  - The bibliography of the Islam West Africa Collection on Wikidata: nearly all of its 867 references, open to SPARQL queries and drawn as automatic Scholia profiles of the field.
  - Data: [Islam in Benin](https://qlever.scholia.wiki/topic/Q3155361) · [Islam in Burkina Faso](https://qlever.scholia.wiki/topic/Q3081878) · [Islam in Côte d'Ivoire](https://qlever.scholia.wiki/topic/Q4119820) · [Islam in Niger](https://qlever.scholia.wiki/topic/Q3087639) · [Islam in Togo](https://qlever.scholia.wiki/topic/Q522809)
- **2021–26** [Digital Exhibits on Islam in West Africa](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/burkina-faso-digital-exhibits.md)
  - Four digital exhibits that open thematic paths through the Islam West Africa Collection: the hajj and Muslim student activism in Burkina Faso, intégrisme in Côte d’Ivoire, and the debate over secularism across the region.
  - Site: [All exhibits](https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/page/exhibits) · [Hajj in Burkina Faso](https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/page/hajj-bf) · [Student activism in Burkina Faso](https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/page/student-activism-bf) · [Intégrisme in Côte d'Ivoire](https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/page/integrisme-cote-d-ivoire) · [Secularism](https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/page/secularism)
- **2018–24** [Remoboko Visualisations](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/remoboko.md)
  - Interactive maps, a timeline and charts for the Remoboko research group: companions to my book on religious activism on campuses in Togo and Benin, and a portrait of the group’s publications and collaborators.
  - Site: [Book: points of interest map](https://fmadore.github.io/Remoboko/Book_DeGruyter/Maps/points_of_interest.html) · [Book: timeline](https://fmadore.github.io/Remoboko/Book_DeGruyter/Timeline/) · [All figures](https://fmadore.github.io/Remoboko/) · [remoboko.hypotheses.org/visualisations](https://remoboko.hypotheses.org/visualisations)
  - Code: [Remoboko](https://github.com/fmadore/Remoboko)
- **2018–23** [Islam Burkina Faso Collection](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/islam-burkina-faso-collection.md)
  - The open-access database of over 2,900 documents on Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso that I launched in 2021, and the foundation of the Islam West Africa Collection. Now archived.
  - Site: [islam.domains.uflib.ufl.edu (Internet Archive)](https://web.archive.org/web/20240312164955/https://islam.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/s/bf/page/home)
  - Reviews: [Robert Launay, “Review: Islam Burkina Faso Collection”, *Reviews in Digital Humanities* 4, no. 4 (2023)](https://doi.org/10.21428/3e88f64f.89e71c81); [Vincent Hiribarren, “Review of Frédérick Madore ‘Islam Burkina Faso Collection’”, *Mande Studies* 24 (2022): 325-27.](https://doi.org/10.2979/mnd.2022.a908483)

## Invited talks

- **2026** [“Les serveurs MCP pour les GLAM africains : une voie d’avenir à l’ère de l’IA ?”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/serveurs-mcp-glam-africains-stias-2026.md), *Humanités numériques et intelligence artificielle en études africaines : vers des pratiques durables et équitables*, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, 23 September.
- **2026** [“University of Kansas AI and Africa Symposium”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/ai-africa-symposium-kansas-2026.md), University of Kansas, Lawrence, 17 September.
- **2026** Aksana Ismailbekova and **Frédérick Madore**. [“Islam’s ‘Peripheries’: Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/islam-peripheries-dh-ai-west-africa-central-asia-2026.md), *Seminar series ‘Digital History in/of Central Asia and the South Caucasus’*, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 29 June.
- **2026** [“Dormant Digital Collections, AI Triage: Lessons from the Islam West Africa Collection and Beyond”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/dormant-digital-collections-ai-triage-dga-2026.md), *Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienforschung (DGA)*, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 6 May.
- **2026** [“From Digital Hoarding to Open Archives: Using AI Agents to Unlock West African Newspaper Collections”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/digital-hoarding-open-archives-warsaw-2026.md), *Non-European Approaches in European Academia: Strategies for De-Europeanizing Research*, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 16 April.
- **2025** [“Building AI Pipelines for African Digital Collections: Lessons from the Islam West Africa Collection”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/uppsala-university-2025.md), *Work talk ALMEDA project*, Uppsala University, 5 December.
- **2025** [“Présentation-discussion de l’ouvrage Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/presentation-discussion-religious-activism-campuses-ciram-2025.md), *Conférences midi du CIRAM*, Université Laval, 6 November.
- **2025** [“When AI Meets the Archive: Transforming the Islam West Africa Collection with Large Language Models”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/when-ai-meets-the-archive-2025.md), *SADiLaR Digital Humanities colloquia*, North-West University, 20 August.
- **2025** [“Humanités numériques et flux de recherche augmentés par l’IA pour la Collection islam Afrique de l’Ouest”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/humanites-numeriques-ia-ecole-chartes-2025.md), *Work talk*, École nationale des chartes, 22 May.
- **2025** [“L’ambition fédératrice à l’épreuve de la diversité : étude comparative des faîtières islamiques au Burkina Faso, Togo, Bénin et Côte d’Ivoire”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/etablir-faitiere-islamique.md), *Workshop Religiosités et vies associatives en Afrique: entre stratégies d’organisation et vies en mouvement*, Puidoux, 4 March.
- **2024** **Frédérick Madore** and Fiacre Anato. [“Repenser la catégorisation religieuse à partir du Bénin, terre du vodun”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/repenser-categorisation-religieuse-benin.md), *Workshop L’Afrique des religions à l’épreuve des chiffres et des catégorisations*, Université Paris Cité, 5 December.
- **2024** [“Tracing Islamic Knowledge Production in Francophone West African Newspapers (1990-Present)”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/tracing-islamic-knowledge-production.md), *Workshop Perspectives in Motion: Conceptual Fields from the Global South*, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 2 December.
- **2024** [“Islam, Algorithms and AI”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/islam-algorithms-ai.md), *ZMO Sommerfest*, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 18 July.
- **2024** [“La Collection Islam Afrique de l’Ouest: nouvelles perspectives sur l’histoire des communautés musulmanes via la presse et les humanités numériques”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/collection-islam-afrique-ouest.md), *Enjeux éthiques et juridiques au diapason des données de la recherche en études aréales*, Aix-en-Provence, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’Homme, 25 March.
- **2023** [“Interfaith coexistence on the campuses of the University of Lomé (Togo) and the University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin) since the 1970s”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/interfaith-coexistence-campuses.md), *Workshop Religion for Peace? Identifying Conditions and Mechanisms of Interfaith Peace*, Berlin, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), 6 June.
- **2022** [“Digital Humanities in the Making: The Islam Burkina Faso Collection”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/digital-humanities-islam-burkina-faso.md), *Open Day at ZMO*, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 16 September.
- **2022** [“A ‘Yovo’ Historian in Benin and Togo: Conducting Fieldwork in Times of Pandemic and Fears of Jihadism Spreading”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/yovo-historian-benin-togo.md), *Workshop Researching Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa*, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 14 June.
- **2022** [“Point de passage et frontières religieuses”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/point-de-passage-frontieres-religieuses.md), *Workshop Point de passage et frontières religieuses*, Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (LASDEL), 3 June.
- **2022** [“Émancipation féminine et militantisme islamique en Afrique de l’Ouest depuis 1980: quelques enseignements du Burkina Faso, de la Côte d’Ivoire, du Togo et du Bénin”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/emancipation-feminine-militantisme-islamique.md), *Atelier international Femmes africaines dans une société d’hommes: espaces contraints, habilité sociale et formes d’émancipation*, Université de Kabala, 22 March.
- **2022** [“Les associations chrétiennes et islamiques sur les campus de l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi et de l’Université de Lomé depuis 1970: la laïcité à l’université face à l’activisme religieux”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/associations-chretiennes-islamiques-campus.md), *Laboratoire d’Analyse et de Recherche, Religions, Espaces et Développement (LARRED)*, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, 8 March.
- **2022** [“Militantisme islamique sur le campus de l’Université de Lomé (Togo) depuis les années 1980: être musulman en contexte minoritaire, laïc et (semi-)autoritaire”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/militantisme-islamique-campus-lome.md), *Chaire de recherche sur l’islam contemporain en Afrique de l’Ouest*, Université du Québec à Montréal, 22 February.
- **2021** [“Salafisme et pentecôtisme sur les campus au Bénin et au Togo: la laïcité à l’université face à l’activisme religieux”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/salafisme-pentecotisme-campus-benin-togo.md), *Conférences midi du CIRAM*, Université Laval, 8 April.
- **2020** [“Political mobilizations in Burkina Faso”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/political-mobilizations-burkina-faso.md), *Workshop Political mobilizations in Burkina Faso*, University of Ottawa, 27 November.
- **2020** [“Representations of Islam and Muslims in Togo’s State-Owned Newspapers Since the 1960s: From Loyal Religious Minority to Potential Threat”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/representations-islam-muslims-togo.md), *Workshop Islam, Media, and Popular Culture in Africa and Elsewhere*, University of Florida, 9 October.
- **2020** [“‘Muslim Intellectuals’ and ‘Francophone Salafis’ in West Africa: New Religious Elites?”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/muslim-intellectuals-francophone-salafis.md), *Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies*, Indiana University Bloomington, 1 October.
- **2020** [“Public Islam in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso: a comparative overview of the use of media by Muslims since the 1970s”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/public-islam-cote-ivoire-burkina-faso.md), *Workshop Media and ‘Public’ Islam in Africa & Elsewhere*, University of Florida, 24 January.
- **2019** [“La défense de la laïcité de l’État, un outil de revendication politique pour les musulmans au Burkina Faso (depuis 1960)”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/defense-laicite-musulmans-burkina.md), *Debating Laïcité in the Sahel: What Future for Secularism?*, West African Research Center, 4 July.
- **2019** [“L’Union Islamique du Bénin et les élections législatives: comment comprendre la crise interne”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/union-islamique-benin-elections.md), *Université d’Abomey-Calavi*, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, 28 May.
- **2018** [“Current Dynamics of Islam in Burkina Faso”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/current-dynamics-islam-burkina-faso.md), *Sahel Seminars*, University of Florida, 16 November.
- **2018** [“‘Plus rien ne sera jamais comme avant’? Young Muslims’ new forms of civic engagement in Burkina Faso (2014-2017)”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/young-muslims-civic-engagement-burkina.md), *Workshop Muslim Youth and Lived Islam in Africa & Beyond*, University of Florida, 19 October.
- **2018** [“Les élites musulmanes en Côte d’Ivoire et au Burkina Faso depuis 1990 : des mobilisations politiques contrastées”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/elites-musulmanes-cote-divoire-burkina-faso.md), *Conférences midi du CIRAM*, Université Laval, 25 September.
- **2018** [“‘Militantisme bissap’, féminisme islamique et entrepreneuriat religieux en Côte d’Ivoire: Aminata Kane Koné, une figure de la réussite”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/militantisme-bissap-feminisme-islamique-2018.md), *Workshop Entrepreneuriat religieux et figures de la réussite en Afrique subsaharienne: terrains et concepts*, Université Laval, 8 September.
- **2017** [“L’islam au Burkina Faso et en Côte d’Ivoire: éveil et radicalisation?”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/islam-burkina-cote-ivoire.md), *76e conférence Archéopat*, Université du Québec à Rimouski, 13 February.

## Conference participation

### Panels organised

- **2026** Vincent Hiribarren and **Frédérick Madore**. [“Humanités numériques (DH) et IA dans les études africaines”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/humanites-numeriques-dh-ia-etudes-africaines-reaf-2026.md), *9èmes Rencontres des études africaines en France (REAF)*, Paris, 30 June.
- **2025** **Frédérick Madore** and Vincent Hiribarren. [“Digital Humanities (DH) and AI in African Studies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/dh-ai-african-studies-2025.md), *10th European Conference of African Studies (ECAS)*, Prague, 26 June.
- **2024** [“Author Meets Critic. Faith-based Student Activism in Togo and Benin: Muslims and Christians on University Campuses”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/author-meets-critic-faith-activism-2024.md), *67th Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA)*, Chicago, 12 December.
- **2019** [“Muslim Minorities in Africa”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/muslim-minorities-africa-2019.md), *62nd Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA)*, Boston, 21 November.

### Papers presented

- **2026** Jiayu Yang, Durgesh Nandini, …, **Frédérick Madore** et al. [“Beyond Keywords: Training-Free Entity Linking for Multilingual Research Metadata”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/beyond-keywords-entity-linking-cikm-2026.md), *35th International ACM Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2026)*, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, 9 November.
- **2026** Jiayu Yang, Durgesh Nandini, **Frédérick Madore** et al. [“Beyond Keywords: Training-Free Entity Linking for Research Metadata via Cross-Lingual Retrieval Consensus”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/beyond-keywords-entity-linking-jcdl-2026.md), *ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2026)*, Embassy Suites by Hilton Dallas Frisco Hotel & Convention Center, Frisco, Texas, 15 October.
- **2026** [“Reconfiguring the Archive: Relationality and Discovery in the Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (AMIRA)”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/reconfiguring-archive-amira-2026.md), *Reimagining the Archive in the Post-Truth Era: An International Interdisciplinary Conference*, Cory Library for Historical Research, Makhanda, 1 July.
- **2026** Vincent Hiribarren and **Frédérick Madore**. [“Retour sur une note de synthèse analysant la relation entre Humanités Numériques, l’IA et les Études Africaines (Hanovre, février 2026)”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/retour-note-synthese-dh-ia-reaf-2026.md), *9èmes Rencontres des études africaines en France (REAF)*, Paris, 30 June.
- **2026** [“Beyond Keywords: AI-Mediated Access to the Islam West Africa Collection through an MCP Server and Agent Skill”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/beyond-keywords-ai-iwac-mcp-2026.md), *Eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History*, University of Luxembourg, 15 June.
- **2026** **Frédérick Madore** and Aksana Ismailbekova. [“Islam’s ‘Peripheries’: Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/islam-peripheries-open-up-2026.md), *Kick-off ‘Open Up’*, Xplanatorium Herrenhausen, Hanover, 4 March.
- **2025** [“From Archives to Algorithms: Uncovering Transregional Islamic Connections through the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/archives-algorithms-iwac-2025.md), *Eighth European Congress on World and Global History*, Linnaeus University, 11 September.
- **2025** Vincent Hiribarren and **Frédérick Madore**. [“Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best?”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/historian-vs-ai-ecas-2025.md), *10th European Conference of African Studies (ECAS)*, Prague, 26 June.
- **2025** [“Intelligence artificielle et traitement des archives numériques : applications et enjeux dans la Collection Islam Afrique de l’Ouest”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/ai-archives-humanistica-2025.md), *Colloque annuel Humanistica 2025*, Cheikh Anta Diop University, 24 April.
- **2024** [“La Collection Islam Afrique de l’Ouest: enjeux éthiques et décolonisation des humanités numériques”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/collection-islam-humanites-2024.md), *12th International Conference on Mande Studies*, Institut des Sciences Humaines, 28 June.
- **2023** [“‘Too Young,’ ‘Immature,’ and not Committed Enough: The Decline of Faith-Based Student Organizations in Togo and Benin?”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/faith-based-student-organizations-2023.md), *9th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS)*, University of Cologne, 2 June.
- **2022** **Frédérick Madore** and Perry Collins. [“Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection: Collaboration for Digital Scholarship”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/publishing-islam-burkina-faso-collection-2022.md), *34th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT)*, Free University of Berlin, 15 September.
- **2022** [“Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection with Omeka S”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/islam-burkina-faso-collection-omeka-2022.md), *3rd Annual conference of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence “Medialities”*, University of Bayreuth, 8 July.
- **2022** [“Salafisme et sécuritisation de l’islam au Bénin et au Togo: instrumentalisations diverses d’une ‘menace étrangère’”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/salafisme-securitisation-benin-togo-2022.md), *Islamist Protest, Terrorism and (In)Security in Africa Conference*, University of Maroua, 2 June.
- **2021** [“Generations at Odds: The Controversial Political Candidacy of an Imam in Benin (2019)”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/generations-imam-benin-2021.md), *11th International Conference of the Mande Studies Association (MANSA)*, Uppsala, 18 June.
- **2019** [“‘Good Muslim, Bad Muslim’ in Togo: The Construction of a Religious Minority Amid a Constitutional Crisis (2017–2018)”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/good-muslim-bad-muslim-togo-2019.md), *62nd Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA)*, Boston, 21 November.
- **2019** [“Militantisme islamique féminin au Burkina Faso: des processus sinueux d’émancipation religieuse”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/militantisme-islamique-feminin-burkina-2019.md), *IIe Congrès international de l’Institut du Genre*, University of Angers, 27 August.
- **2019** Issouf Binaté and **Frédérick Madore**. [“Islam on University Campuses in Côte d’Ivoire since the 1970s: ‘Muslim Intellectuals’ and Francophone Salafism”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/islam-university-campuses-cote-divoire-2019.md), *8th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS)*, University of Edinburgh, 12 June.
- **2017** [“Le nouveau dynamisme du salafisme en Côte d’Ivoire: vers une radicalisation de l’islam ivoirien?”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/nouveau-dynamisme-salafisme-cote-divoire-2017.md), *10th International Conference of the Mande Studies Association (MANSA)*, International University of Grand-Bassam, 3 August.
- **2016** [“The Organization of the Hajj and the State: Cohesion and Rivalries within the Muslim Community of Côte d’Ivoire (1993-2006)”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/hajj-organization-state-cote-divoire-2016.md), *59th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA)*, Washington D.C., 3 December.
- **2016** [“L’islam ivoirien et burkinabé à l’ère du numérique: des communautés musulmanes 2.0?”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/islam-ivoirien-burkinabe-numerique-2016.md), *3ème rencontre des Jeunes Chercheur.e.s en Études Africaines*, Paris Diderot University, 14 January.
- **2014** Muriel Gomez-Perez, **Frédérick Madore** and Mathias Boukary Savadogo. [“Rue, islam associatif et enjeux citoyens: retour sur des orientations récentes au Sénégal, au Burkina Faso et en Côte d’Ivoire”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/rue-islam-associatif-enjeux-citoyens-2014.md), *International Conference Le clos et l’ouvert. Acteurs religieux, acteurs sociaux et usages de la rue (Europe, Afrique, Asie, Amériques)*, Gaston Berger University, 29 October.
- **2013** Muriel Gomez-Perez and **Frédérick Madore**. [“Prêcheurs et prêcheuses au Burkina Faso: regards croisés sur leurs stratégies de communication religieuse depuis 1990”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/precheurs-precheuses-burkina-faso-2013.md), *81e Congrès de l’Association Francophone pour le Savoir (Acfas)*, Université Laval, 7 May.
- **2013** [“La médiatisation de l’islam à Ouagadougou depuis 1991: entre normalisation des discours et nouvelle agency des musulmans”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/mediatisation-islam-ouagadougou-2013.md), *43rd Annual Canadian Association of African Studies Conference (CAAS)*, University of Ottawa, 3 May.
- **2013** [“Imams, Islamic Preachers and Public Space in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) since the 1990s: Toward New Intergenerational Relationships and a Muslim Public Sphere”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/imams-islamic-preachers-ouagadougou-2013.md), *2013 Africa Conference*, University of Texas at Austin, 29 March.
- **2012** [“Imams et espace public à Ouagadougou depuis 1990: entre visibilité nouvelle et concertation entre les générations”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/imams-espace-public-ouagadougou-2012.md), *42nd Annual Canadian Association of African Studies Conference (CAAS)*, Université Laval, 4 May.

### Posters presented

- **2026** **Frédérick Madore**, Oliver Baumann, Durgesh Nandini et al. [“Responsible AI Access to Research Repositories: An MCP Server for African Studies Data”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/responsible-ai-access-mcp-server-2026.md), *AI Day 2026, Research Center for AI in Science and Society (RAIS²)*, University of Bayreuth, 25 September.

## Organisation of academic events

- **2026** **Frédérick Madore**, Vincent Hiribarren, Emmanuel Ngue Um and Menno van Zaanen. [“Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies: Towards Sustainable and Equitable Practices”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/stias-dh-ai-african-studies-workshop-2026.md), Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, 21-24 September.
  - [Link](https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/)
- **2026** **Frédérick Madore** and Vincent Hiribarren. [“Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/volkswagenstiftung-dh-ai-african-studies-workshop-2026.md), Xplanatorium Herrenhausen, Hanover, 18-20 February.
  - [Link](https://fmadore.github.io/dh-ai-african-studies-2026/)
- **2023** [“Launch of the Islam West Africa Collection”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/launch-islam-west-africa-collection.md), Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT), 9 November.
  - [Link](https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/244)
- **2023** Abdoulaye Sounaye and **Frédérick Madore**. [“University Campuses in Africa and Beyond: Training Grounds, Moral Spaces and Political Arenas”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/university-campuses-africa-beyond.md), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 6-8 September.
  - [Link](https://remoboko.hypotheses.org/4854)
- **2022** Abdoulaye Sounaye, **Frédérick Madore**, Vincent Favier et al. [“Workshop ‘Religions on Campus: Coexisting Traditions, Reformulating the Secular and Life Projects’”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/workshop-religions-on-campus-2022.md), Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (LASDEL), 31 October - 4 November.
  - [Link](https://remoboko.hypotheses.org/religions-on-campus-coexisting-traditions-reformulating-the-secular-and-life-projects)
- **2021** Abdoulaye Sounaye, **Frédérick Madore**, Vincent Favier et al. [“Workshop ‘Religion in Higher Educational Institutions in Africa and Beyond: (Re)Conversion, Power, and Authority from a Comparative Perspective’”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/workshop-religion-in-higher-educational-institutions-2021.md), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 16-17 November.
  - [Link](https://remoboko.hypotheses.org/activities/workshops/workshop-2021)
- **2016** CIRAM. [“Évolutions et nouvelles formes de l’islam en Afrique de l’Ouest: vers une radicalisation?”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/evolutions-nouvelles-formes-islam-afrique-ouest.md), Université Laval, 24 March.
  - [Link](https://www.ciram.hei.ulaval.ca/evolutions-et-nouvelles-formes-de-lislam-en-afrique-de-louest-vers-une-radicalisation/)

## Teaching experience

### Instructor

- **2020** **The African Past**, University of Ottawa (Canada), Undergraduate (Fall 2020).
- **2020** **Francophone West Africa**, University of Florida (United States), Undergraduate (Spring 2020).
- **2013–18** **Dissertation historique \[Historical writing\]**, Université Laval (Canada), Undergraduate (8 sections) (Fall 2013 – Winter 2018).

### Guest lectures and workshops

- **2025** **[Militantisme religieux sur les campus universitaires : le cas du Bénin et du Togo](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/militantisme-religieux-campus-benin-togo-2025.md)**, *Séminaire ‘Histoire et anthropologie comparées du fait religieux en Afrique’ animé par Marie Miran*, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France), Graduate.
- **2025** **[Rencontre entre chrétiens et musulmans: au-delà du binaire coexistence pacifique/conflits religieux](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/rencontre-chretiens-musulmans-2025.md)**, *Séminaire ‘Histoire et anthropologie comparées du fait religieux en Afrique’ animé par Marie Miran*, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France), Graduate.
- **2025** **[L’histoire des communautés musulmanes ouest-africaines : approches et perspectives des humanités numériques](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/histoire-communautes-musulmanes-ouest-africaines-2025.md)**, *Séminaire ‘Actualité de la recherche en anthropologie sociale en Afrique’ animé par Sophie Bava, Alice Degorce et Marie Miran*, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France), Graduate.
- **2025** **[Questions d’islam en Afrique de l’Ouest. Les enjeux et défis de la recherche avec les archives physiques et numériques](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/questions-islam-afrique-ouest-2025.md)**, *Séminaire de formation à la recherche en Afrique (SéFRA) animé par Fabienne Samson*, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France), Graduate.
- **2025** **[DigitalHistory.Exe: Running New Programs on Old Files](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/digital-history-exe.md)**, *Master Class*, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (Germany), Graduate.
- **2024** **[Formation en recherche en ligne](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/formation-recherche-en-ligne-niamey.md)**, *Atelier*, Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherches sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (Niger).
- **2023** **[Formation en recherche en ligne](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/formation-recherches-en-ligne-ouagadougou.md)**, *Atelier*, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo (Burkina Faso).
- **2022** **Islam and Muslims in West Africa**, *Religion in/from Africa*, Universität Bayreuth (Germany), Graduate.
- **2020** **Colonial Surveillance in French West Africa in the Interwar Period**, *Politics, Identity and Violence in Africa*, University of Florida (United States), Undergraduate.
- **2019** **Islam and Muslim Societies in Francophone West Africa**, *Religions of Africa*, University of Florida (United States), Undergraduate.
- **2019** **[La recherche documentaire en libre accès et la gestion de références bibliographiques avec Zotero](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/recherche-documentaire-zotero.md)**, *Séance de formation*, Université Alassane Ouattara (Côte d’Ivoire).
- **2018** **Outils technologiques pour la recherche en histoire**, *Recherche et rédaction \[Research and Writing\]*, Université Laval (Canada), Undergraduate.
- **2018** **La recherche historique en Afrique de l’Ouest: enjeux et défis**, *Les sciences historiques aujourd’hui \[Historical Sciences Today\]*, Université Laval (Canada), Undergraduate.
- **2017** **Religions et enjeux de pouvoir**, *Afrique subsaharienne: diversité culturelle et mondialisation \[Sub-Saharan Africa: Cultural Diversity and Globalisation\]*, Université Laval (Canada), Undergraduate.
- **2017** **Sociétés, religion et politique**, *Politique et société en Afrique \[Politics and Society in Africa\]*, Université Laval (Canada), Graduate.
- **2017** **Outils technologiques pour la recherche doctorale**, *Projet de thèse \[Dissertation Project\]*, Université Laval (Canada), Graduate.
- **2016** **Outils technologiques pour la recherche doctorale**, *Projet de thèse \[Dissertation Project\]*, Université Laval (Canada), Graduate.

## Research experience

### Fieldwork

- **2024, 2015, 2014** Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
- **2024** Accra, Ghana
- **2024, 2022, 2019** Cotonou and Porto-Novo, Bénin
- **2024, 2022, 2021, 2019** Lomé, Togo
- **2015, 2011** Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

### Research roles

- **2024** Project Representative, “West African Newspaper Archive”, University of Bayreuth.
  - Led stakeholder engagement in four West African countries for a major newspaper digitisation initiative.
  - Successfully negotiated and secured letters of intent and cooperation agreements with key institutions and editors.
- **2016–17** Coordinator, CIRAM, Université Laval.
  - Coordinated activities of the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l’Afrique et le Moyen-Orient \[Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Africa and the Middle East\].
  - Drafted the application for the “Centre en émergence” \[Emerging centre\] status for the CIRAM. The recognition was granted by the Vice-rectorat à la recherche \[Vice-Rector for Research\] in 2017.
  - Developed the digital presence of the research centre (website, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube).
- **2016–17** Research Assistant, Université Laval/University of Ottawa.
  - For the SSHRC project “Mosquées, Hâjj et partis politiques au Sahel et en Afrique centrale: figures de réussite et entrepreneuriat religieux” \[Mosques, Hâjj and Political Parties in the Sahel and in Central Africa: Figures of Success and Religious Entrepreneurship\] directed by M. Gomez-Perez (lead researcher), C. Jourde and M. Brossier.
  - Trained the research team on data management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials.
- **2014** Research Assistant, GIERSA, Université Laval.
  - Contributed to the creation of an online database of master and thesis dissertations on Africa for the website of the Groupe Interuniversitaire d’Études et de Recherches sur les Sociétés Africaines \[Inter-University Group of Studies and Research on African Societies\].
- **2011** Research Assistant, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM).
  - For the SSHRC project “ONG confessionnelles en Afrique: une société civile en construction?” \[Faith-based NGOs in Africa: A civil society in formation?\] directed by M.N. LeBlanc (lead researcher) and M. Gomez-Perez.
  - Conducted interviews of leaders of Islamic NGOs in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and wrote field report.

## Service to profession

### Editorial board memberships

- **2025–** Editorial committee, *Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique*.

### Peer review activities

- **2026** 13 Panel Proposals – *11th European Conference of African Studies (ECAS 2027)*.
  - Scientific Committee reviewer for the Digital trends and technology stream.
- **2026** Journal Article – *Revue internationale Enfances Familles Générations*.
- **2026** 3 Conference Papers – *35th International ACM Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2026)*.
- **2026** Conference Paper – *Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2026)*.
- **2026** Journal Article – *African Affairs*.
- **2025** Journal Article – *Cahiers d’études africaines*.
- **2025** Conference Paper – *The Web Conference 2026 (WWW2026)*.
- **2025** Journal Article – *African Affairs*.
  - [Verified on Web of Science](https://publons.com/wos-op/review/author/kl1iZ2Jl/)
- **2022** Journal Article – *Archipélies*.
  - [Verified on Web of Science](https://publons.com/wos-op/review/author/ooqyKad7/)
- **2022** Journal Article – *Politique africaine*.
- **2021** Journal Article – *Africa Spectrum*.
  - [Verified on Web of Science](https://publons.com/wos-op/review/author/ZO6tFFN3/)
- **2019** Journal Article – *The Communication Review*.
  - [Verified on Web of Science](https://publons.com/wos-op/review/author/lvgEFvT0/)
- **2018** Journal Article – *Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines*.
  - [Verified on Web of Science](https://publons.com/wos-op/review/author/q1iCgRDf/)

## Consulting and legal expertise

- **2025–** Consultant, Communitology.
  - Provide research-driven analysis and expert testimony in asylum and immigration proceedings.
  - Prepare Country of Origin Information (COI) reports for cases on Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, and Togo.

## Media appearances

### Podcasts

- **2025** [“Artificial Intelligence (AI) in African and Islamic Studies”](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/zmo-kitchen-talks-ai-islamic-african-studies.md), *ZMO Kitchen Talks*, ep. 14. 11 December.
  - [Listen](https://www.zmo.de/en/kitchen-talks)

### Interviews and appearances

- **2019** Interviewed by *TV5 Monde*, 64’ le monde en français. 29 January.
  - Topic: Deteriorating security situation in Burkina Faso
- **2019** Interviewed by *QUB Radio*. 28 January.
  - Topic: Deteriorating security situation in Burkina Faso
- **2019** Interviewed by *Journal de Montréal*. 26 January.
  - Topic: Deteriorating security situation in Burkina Faso

## Languages

- **Native** French
- **C2** English
- **B2** German

## Professional affiliations

- **2026–Present** Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Bayreuth.
- **2023–2025** Humanistica, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.
- **2022–Present** Association des Humanités numériques d’Afrique francophone (AHNAF).
- **2020–2025** Mande Studies Association (MANSA).
- **2018–Present** Sahel Research Group (SRG), University of Florida.
- **2017–Present** Islam in Africa Studies Group (IASG), African Studies Association (ASA).
  - Secretary (2024–Present)

## Computer skills

- **Data analysis & visualisation** Python, OpenRefine, ECharts, MapLibre, data wrangling, topic modelling, network analysis, sentiment analysis, semantic search/embeddings
- **Digital humanities tools** Omeka S, IIIF, Wikidata, linked data (RDF, SPARQL), Tesseract OCR, web scraping, WordPress
- **Development & infrastructure** Svelte, Git/GitHub, Docker, MongoDB, Claude Code, AI-assisted development
- **Research & documentation** Zotero, Microsoft Office