Mark DeLancey

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Associate Professor
Affiliation	DePaul University
Email	mdelance@depaul.edu
Mailing Address	2315 N. Kenmore Ave., Ste. 211-11 Chicago, IL 60614-1950
Phone/Fax Number(s)	773-325-8601
Countries of Specialization	Cameroon, Mauritania
Education	BA - Oberlin College, MA/PhD - Harvard University
Research Interests	Cameroonian architecture, Fulbe arts and architecture, Islamic art and architecture of West Africa, Mauritanian manuscripts
Teaching Interests	African and Islamic art and architecture
Publications	“Between Mosque and Palace: Defining Identity Through Ritual Movement in Ngaoundere, Cameroon.” Cahiers d’études africaines 208, no. 4 (December 2012): 975-998. “The Spread of the Sooro: Symbols of Rulership in the Sokoto Empire.” JSAH: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 71, no. 2 (June 2012): 168-185. Historical Dictionary of Cameroon (with Mark W. DeLancey and Rebecca Neh Mbuh). African Historical Dictionaries Series, 4th ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010. “Moving East, Facing West: Islam as an Intercultural Mediator in Urban Planning in the Sokoto Caliphate,” in African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspectives edited by Steven J. Salm and Toyin Falola, 3-21. Rochester Studies in African History & the Diaspora 21. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005. “The Origins of the ‘Hausa Dome’.” Ngaoundéré-Anthropos 5 (2000): 71-86.Historical Dictionary of Cameroon (with Mark W. DeLancey). African Historical Dictionaries Series, 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000. Cameroon (with Mark W. DeLancey). World Bibliographical Series 63, 2nd ed. Oxford: Clio Press, 1999.