Nancy Demerdash is an Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at Albion College (Michigan, USA). She holds graduate and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University, respectively, and publishes widely on modern and contemporary art and architecture of the Middle East and North Africa. Her articles have appeared in edited volumes as well as in journals such as the Journal of North African Studies, the Journal of Arabian Studies, Perspective: actualité en histoire de l’art, among others. Her current book project, contracted with the University of Nebraska Press, centers on the architecture and politics of postwar reconstruction and national development in mid-twentieth-century Tunisia. 

E-mail:ndemerdash@albion.edu