Robyn d’Avignon

Robyn d’Avignon is an associate professor of history at New York University working in the fields of West African history, the environment, and the history of science. She is the author of A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (Duke University Press, 2022) and at work on a new project on salvage archaeology in Senegal.

Essays

Science and religion across Senegal and Japan

Robyn d’Avignon and Levi McLaughlin | October 12, 2025

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Robyn d’Avignon

Science and religion across Senegal and Japan

Mobilizing social science for the public good.

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