Biography

Glaire D. Anderson is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in caliphal Iberia and North Africa, and cultural interchange. Anderson is author of The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Aristocratic Estates and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba (Ashgate, 2013) and co-editor of Revisiting al-Andalus: Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia and Beyond (Brill, 2007).  She received her PhD from the History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture/Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT and has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the College Art Association, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Society of Architectural Historians.

Select Publications

Books

• The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Aristocratic Estates and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba, Ashgate Publishers, 2013.

• Revisiting al-Andalus: Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia and Beyond. Medieval & Early Modern Iberian World 34. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007.

Articles & chapters

• “Sign of the Cross: Contexts for the Ivory Cross of San Millán de la Cogolla?,” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (forthcoming, 2014).

• “Integrating the Medieval Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in Islamic Architectural History,” Facets of Exchange Special Issue, Journal of North African Studies (2013) pp. 83-92.

• “Concubines, Eunuchs, and Patronage in Early Islamic Córdoba.” In Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture, ed. Therese Martin. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012, pp. 633-669.

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

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