As of July 1st, 2025, Itohan Osayimwese was promoted to Full Professor of the History of Art & Architecture and Urban Studies. Professor Osayimwese has also served as Department Chair since 2023. 

In March 2025, Professor Osayimwese delivered a lecture on her current research on colonialism and the expropriation of African architectural heritage at the Carl
Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich, Germany. The Foundation is an independent organization dedicated to the promotion of the sciences and the humanities, and it hosts a lecture series to which it invites the world's most eminent and distinguished scholars.

Osayimwese presented a talk titled “The Diaspora of African Architectural Objects” in Spring 2025 at Columbia University's Bettman Lecture Series, an annual program of monthly lectures in art history sponsored by Columbia's Department of Art History and Archaeology.

Also in the Spring, Professor Osayimwese was invited to speak at Dartmouth College. Her lecture was titled, “Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage.”

Professor Osayimwese’s two newest books will be published in September 2025. The first, Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage (Princeton University Press) is a history of Africa’s looted architectural heritage and a bold proposal for the repatriation of the continent’s stolen cultural artifacts. 

Another book, Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture (co-edited with Felipe Hernandez) explores how race has been deployed historically in the design of the built environment and the profession of architecture. It pays particular attention to constructions of race beyond the traditional Africa–North America axis.