Itohan Osayimwese

Itohan Osayimwese is Chair and Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and Urban Studies, and an affiliate faculty member in Africana Studies and at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University. Her research analyzes how oppressive political ideologies have instrumentalized architecture, design, and material culture in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Anglo-Caribbean, and Central Europe between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of Africa’s Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage (Princeton, 2025), Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany (Pittsburgh, 2017), co-editor of Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture (2025), and editor of German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies: Architecture, Art, Urbanism, and Visual Culture (Bloomsbury, 2023).