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Glaire Anderson

Glaire D. Anderson (PhD MIT, History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture/ Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture) is a historian of early Islamic art, architecture and urbanism, with a focus on the western Mediterranean in the the ninth and tenth centuries. Publications include Revisiting al-Andalus: Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia and Beyond (Brill, 2007); The Islamic villa in early medieval Iberia: aristocratic estates and court culture in Umayyad Córdoba (Ashgate, 2013); and “Concubines, Eunuchs and Patronage in Early Islamic Córdoba,” In Reassessing Women's Roles as "Makers" of Medieval Art and Architecture, edited by Therese Martin (Brill, 2012). Her current work focuses on early medieval women as patrons of architecture, and is part of an ongoing European Research Council project. The recipient of awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the College Art Association, and the Society of Architectural Historians, Anderson serves on the Executive Board of the Historians of Islamic Art Association as Treasurer.

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