Dijana Omeragić Apostolski

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• Ph.D., McGill; M.Arch., Mcgill; M.Phil., University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius
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Dijana Omeragić Apostolski is an architectural historian studying early modern histories of art and architectural design in relation to histories of the body, materials, and matter. She holds a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University, an M.Arch. in History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University, and an M.Phil. in Philosophy of Aesthetics from the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. Her research examines the intersections of architecture, materiality, bodies, race, gender, and systems of knowledge in the early modern world, with a particular focus on architectural drawing, Renaissance architecture, and Michelangelo.

Her scholarship has been published in Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism, H-ART: Revista de Historia, Teoría y Crítica de Arte, and Intermédialités, among other venues. She is the co-editor of Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness: Power by Design (Routledge, 2025), and her current research explores racecraft and architectural design, the material and philosophical dimensions of Renaissance drawing, and the relationship between architecture, bodies, and forms of difference.

Publications

Books & Edited Volumes

Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness: Power by Design, co-edited with Aaron White. Foreword by Charles L. Davis II and Afterword by Itohan Osayimwese. London and New York: Routledge, 2025.

Book Chapters

“‘The Dead Body of a Moor’: Michelangelo, Anatomy, and Racecraft in Sixteenth-Century Rome.” In Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness: Power by Design, edited by Dijana Omeragić Apostolski and Aaron White. London and New York: Routledge, 2025.

“Whiteness, Vincenzo Scamozzi’s Humoral Villas, and L’Idea della Architettura Universale (1615).” In The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches in Race and Architecture, edited by Itohan Osayimwese and Felipe Hernández. London and New York: Routledge, 2025.

“‘Command of the Sword’: Sixteenth-Century Racecraft, Humoral Architecture, and the Pope’s Stronghold at Caprarola.” In Crossroads of Difference: Race and the Making of Premodern Italy, edited by Laura Ingallinella and Robert Clines. Tempe: ACMRS Press, forthcoming.

“Architectures of Villainy and Virtue from ‘Sun, Moon, and Talia’ (1634) to Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019).” In Disney and the Middle Ages, edited by Christina M. Carlson, Mariah L. Cooper, and Joshua Parks. Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming.

“Introduction.” In Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness: Power by Design, edited by Dijana Omeragić Apostolski and Aaron White. London and New York: Routledge, 2025.

Journal Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Material Neoplatonism: Michelangelo’s Architectural Folios after the Codex Coner, 1515–1518.” Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism 2, no. 3 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pau.2025.100056.

“Rhetorics of Power: Michelangelo and the Medici Manuscripts.” H-ART: Revista de Historia, Teoría y Crítica de Arte, no. 15 (2023): 181–196. https://doi.org/10.25025/hart15.2023.07.

“In Pursuit of Continuity: Queen Victoria’s Sequence at the Houses of Parliament in London, 1852–1886.” Intermédialités: Histoire et théorie des arts, des lettres, et des techniques, no. 2 (2016).