Professor Osayimwese will co-direct NEH-funded project

The edited volume that is the planned outcome of the project will be produced through an innovative collaborative writing process.

MoAD Picture — Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA.

HIAA Associate Professor, Itohan Osayimwese has received a $250,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to co-direct a project with David Rifkind, Professor and Director of the School of Architecture, Florida International University.

Rutledge Avenue — Rutledge Ave, Charleston, SC.

The project, Architecture of the African Diaspora in/of the United States, will involve individual archival and field research by six scholars as well as a workshop at the University of Florida. The edited volume that is the planned outcome of the project will be produced through an innovative collaborative writing process. Professor Osayimwese will contribute two chapters to the volume: on Americo-Liberian architecture and the politics of representation, and Afro-Barbadians and the building of Charleston, SC.