Mark Dike DeLancey

Mark Dike DeLancey’s research has primarily focused on palace architecture in Cameroon and more recently on contemporary painting and identity in Mauritania. While at IAS, he will be working on a book manuscript that reinterprets the late-fifteenth-century Tomb, or as he argues it the Minaret, of Askia Muhammad in Gao, Mali in light of that renowned ruler’s pilgrimage to Mecca and political ambitions.