Research output per year
Research output per year
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Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Students are welcome to contact me with proposals. Besides my core areas of expertise in the medieval Islamic west, current areas of interest include global encounters, collections and display, science and visual culture, and digital humanities
Glaire D. Anderson is an historian of Islamic visual culture during the age of the caliphs (650-1250), with a focus on Umayyad Córdoba and the western Mediterranean in the ninth and tenth centuries.
She is the prizewinning author of The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Aristocratic Estates and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba (Ashgate, 2013). Her second monograph, A Caliphal Daedalus, explores science and medieval Islamic visual culture. She is also co-editor of The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors (Brill, 2018) and Revisiting al-Andalus: Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia and Beyond (Brill, 2007).
Anderson received her PhD from the History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture/Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. Her work has been recognized by organizations such as the American Council of Learned Societies, the College Art Association, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Association for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies. She has served on the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) Executive Board and currently serves as Associate on the Board of Directors of the International Center of Medieval Art.
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Postgraduate
As well as teaching on programmes at Edinburgh College of Art, Anderson teaches on the MSc in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture/ Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Doctor in Philosophy, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Editorial Board, Amsterdam University Press (Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia Series)
2016 → …Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
Glaire Anderson (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Glaire Anderson (Invited speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Glaire Anderson (Invited speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
Glaire Anderson (Advisor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Glaire Anderson (Invited speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
Anderson, Glaire (Recipient), 2009
Prize: Fellowships awarded competitively
Anderson, Glaire (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Anderson, Glaire (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Fellowships awarded competitively
Anderson, Glaire (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)