Alexander Eger
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
History
Email Address: aaeger@uncg.edu
Phone: 336.334.3986
Education
PhD, Islamic Archaeology, University of Chicago
M.A. Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Chicago
B.A. Art History, Rutgers University
Courses Taught
- HIS 207: Empires of the Desert: The Rise of Islamic Civilization
- HIS209: The Age of Sultans: Power, Patronage, and Art in Islamic Civilization
- HIS 380: Unearthing Islam’s Past: Art, Archaeology, and History
- HIS 380: Byzantium: The First Christian Empire
- THIS 380: he Desert and the Sown: Environmental History of the Near East
- HIS 380: Antioch through the Ages
- HIS 390: Summer Archaeological Fieldwork [Study Abroad Internship]
- HIS 411c: Town and Country in the Medieval Islamic World
- HIS 414: From Istanbul to Constantinople: A City and its Monuments [team-taught and study abroad]
- HIS 414: Cyprus & the Medieval Mediterranean: An Island and its Monuments [team-taught study abroad]
- HIS 414: Frontiers and Borders in the Classical and Medieval Mediterranean World
Graduate:
- HIS 690: Summer Archaeological Fieldwork (Public History Internship)
- HIS 709: Archaeology and Nationalism (Introductory Research Seminar)
- HIS 716: Graduate Colloquium in World History [team-taught]
Research
- Islamic and Byzantine Archaeology and History
- Eastern Mediterranean (Anatolia, Syria-Palestine, Cyprus)
- Landscape and Settlement Archaeology
- Frontier and Borderlands
- Environmental History
- Coastal Archaeology
- Urban Archaeology and Urban-Rural Relations
- Legacy Archaeology
- Public Archaeology, Archaeology of the 19th-20th Centuries (Late Islamic)
- Ceramics and Production