Are you considering graduate programs in Islamic art/architecture or allied fields, and not sure what to look for in a program or advisor?
Hi, I’m Glaire Anderson (PhD, MIT), Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art at the University of Edinburgh and and Founding Director of the Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections. I'm happy to help.
I have a strategic approach to finding PhD programs and advisors that will support your goals and personal circumstances. In this guided course I lead you step-by-step through how to identify, choose, and contact potential graduate school programmes and advisors that will support your interests and aspirations.
Each step is delivered to your inbox, one per day, over 10 consecutive days. Once you've received the complete set you can refer back to each step as often as you like. Do it at your own pace.
Who is this for?
I wrote it for women, people of colour, and people from minoritised communities. It will be useful to anyone who wants advice from an experienced academic mentor working across arts, humanities, and social science disciplines.
What's in the course?
The advice I give to my own students, who have gone on to top-ranked research PhD programmes in the US and UK, with competitive funding packages.
Common pitfalls, and Do's and Don'ts, with examples
The advice is based on my two decades as a university professor and Islamic art and architecture historian in the US and UK. I also draw on my own experiences navigating the grad school search as the first person in my family to pursue a PhD.
About me:
I've been a researcher in universities in the US and UK for nearly two decades. I'm an award-winning author of two books (A Bridge to the Sky published by Oxford University Press (2024) and The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia (Ashgate, 2013).
I also consult for video game and cultural heritage institutions and was a consulting historian/art historian for Assassin's Creed Mirage (Ubisoft, 2023).