Michelle Apotsos is an Associate Professor of Art History at Williams College, specializing in architecture and Afro-Islamic creative production. She holds a PhD in Art History from Stanford University and 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). Her current projects focus on the impacts of grassroots housing initiatives in South African townships, the effect of tourism on nationalistic landscapes in South Africa, and the growth of large-scale congregational mosques in sub-Saharan Africa.
