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Michelle Apotsos
Michelle Apotsos is an associate professor of art history at Williams College, specializing in architecture, environmentalism, and Afro-Islamic structural and creative culture. She is the author of Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa: Lessons from Larabanga (Routledge, 2016) and The Masjid in Contemporary Islamic Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2021). She has also published in numerous journals including African Arts, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Ghana Journal, and Material Culture Review. Her current projects focus on the impacts of grassroots housing initiatives in South African townships and the growth and impact of large-scale congregational mosques in sub-Saharan Africa.
Contact: W. L. Spencer Art Building, 35 Driscoll Hall Drive, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA.