glaire@email.unc.edu
Hanes Art Center Rm 203
ph. 843-6048
Glaire D. Anderson is a historian of Islamic architecture (PhD MIT, 2005). She teaches courses on pre-modern Islamic art, architecture, and urbanism; villas, gardens, and court cultures; Orientalism and visual culture, and the Historiography of Islamic Art. Anderson has received awards from the College Art Association, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for the Study of the History of Art, the Society of Architectural Historians, the Historians of Islamic Art, and the Barakat Foundation, among others.
Her research focuses on medieval Islamic villa cultures of Islamic Iberia and North Africa, as part of a broader history of the villa in the Mediterranean. Other interests include cultural interchange, early modern representations of Islamic architecture and cities, and historiography.
Anderson is currently at work on a book about villas and court culture in Umayyad Cordoba. She is the editor (with Mariam Rosser-Owen) of Revisiting al-Andalus: Perspectives on the Art & Material Culture of Islamic Iberia & Beyond (Brill Academic Publishers, Fall 2007), to which she contributes an article on the architecture of the Cordoban Umayyad villas. Her work also has been published in the Chicago Art Journal, Thresholds, and Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2006).
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