Oumar Ba is an assistant professor of government. His research focuses on international criminal justice and human rights for globally marginalized people. He is currently working on Crimes, Against Humanity: Governing Global Justice, a genealogy of the international criminal justice system, highlighting its racialized hierarchy of humanity and explaining its current crisis.

He was a 2024 Global Public Voices freedom of expression fellow and was previously featured as a GPV media voice in 2021–22.