l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Associate Professor

DePaul University

mdelance@depaul.edu

2315 N. Kenmore Ave., Ste. 211-11
Chicago, IL 60614-1950

773-325-8601

Cameroon, Mauritania

BA - Oberlin College, MA/PhD - Harvard University

Cameroonian architecture, Fulbe arts and architecture, Islamic art and architecture of West Africa, Mauritanian manuscripts

African and Islamic art and architecture

“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.