Glaire Anderson

Associate Professor

glaire@email.unc.edu

Glaire D. Anderson is a historian of early and medieval Islamic architecture and urbanism with a focus on the caliphal period (particularly the ninth and tenth centuries) and the western Mediterranean, especially Iberia and North Africa. She received her PhD from MIT (History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture and Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture). Ongoing research focuses on early Islamic Iberia and North Africa; women, eunuchs and patronage in al-Andalus; and the place of the medieval Islamic lands in a broader history of villas and villa cultures.  In 2009 Anderson held a Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and her work has also been recognized by the College Art Association, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Barakat Foundation. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the Historians of Islamic Art Association as Treasurer.

Select publications

"Concubines, eunuchs and patronage in Early Islamic Córdoba," In Reassessing Women's Roles as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture, edited by Therese Martin (Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2012). 633-670.

“Islamic Spaces and Diplomacy in Constantinople (10th-13th c.),” In Medieval Encounters 15.1. 2009. 86-113.

 
Revisiting al-Andalus: Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia & Beyond, Glaire D. Anderson & Mariam Rosser-Owen, Eds. (Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007).

"Introduction [historiographic essay, w/ Mariam Rosser-Owen]"

“Villa (munya) Architecture in Umayyad Córdoba: Preliminary Considerations”
 

Courses offered (availability varies)

Undergraduate Courses

Art/Asia 154 Introduction to Art and Architecture of Islamic Lands (8th–16th Centuries CE) Spring 2013

Art/Asia 251 Art and Architecture in the Age of the Caliphs (7th–12th CE)

Art/Asia 458 Islamic Palaces, Gardens, and Court Culture (8th–16th Centuries CE) Spring 2013

Art/Asia 561 Art and Society in Medieval Islamic Spain and North Africa (ASIA 561)

Art 562 Islamic Urbanism: Cities and Society in the Medieval Islamic Lands (7th-13th c. CE)

Graduate Courses

Art 965 Graduate Seminar in Islamic Art: Fall 2012: Assessing the Field and Andalusi Umayyad Art

(previous topics: Orientalism, Art & Representation; Expanding the Villa Discourse)

Art 950 Medieval Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar - Exploring Outside the Walls: medieval societies and the suburban landscape