Thomas Gensheimer

Publications

• "House as Marketplace: Swahili Merchant Houses and Their Urban Context in the Later Middle Ages," in A History of Architecture and Trade, Patrick Haughey (ed.), Routledge, 2018.
• "Swahili Houses" in The Swahili World, Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria LaViolette (eds.), Routledge, 2018.
• "Monumental Tomb Architecture of the Medieval Swahili Coast," Buildings and Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2012.
• World Heritage and National Registers: Stewardship in Perspective, Thomas Gensheimer and Celeste Lovette Guichard (eds.), Transaction Publishers, 2012.
• "Globalization and the Medieval Swahili City" in Globalization and Urbanization in Africa, Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm (eds.), Africa World Press, 2004.
• Co-author of the Instructor's Manual and Student Workbook for Art History, Volume 1, by Marilyn Stokstad, Prentice Hall, 2002.
• "Cross-Cultural Currents: Swahili Urbanism in the Late Middle Ages" in Hybrid Urbanism: On Identity and Tradition in the Built Environment, Nezar AlSayyad (ed.), Greenwood Press, 2000.
• "The Bazaar: Markets and Merchants of the Islamic World, by Walter M. Weiss," book review, Traditional Dwellings & Settlement Review, 1999.
• "At the Boundaries of Dar Al-Islam: Cities of the East African Coast in the Late Middle Ages," IASTE Working Paper Series, vol. 77, 1997.
• "The Alhambra," International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture, St. James Press, 1993.
• "The Great Mosque at Cordova," International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture, St. James Press, 1993.
• "African Traditional Environments, by O. Hunter, book review," Traditional Dwellings & Settlement Review, 1993.
• "Living in Mauritius, by Marigny and Lagesse, book review," Traditional Dwellings & Settlement Review, 1991.
• "The Role of Shell in Mesopotamia: Evidence for Trade Exchange with Oman and the Indus Valley," Paleorient, vol. 10/1, 1984.

Conferences and lectures

• "House as Marketplace: Swahili Merchant Houses in the Later Middle Ages and Their Impact on the East African Urban Environment," 9th Savannah Symposium: The Architecture of Trade, Savannah, Ga, 2015.
• Session chair, Post-Colonial Modernities, 8th Savannah Symposium: Modernities Across Time and Space, Savannah, Ga., 2012.
• "Memory and Eternity: Tomb Architecture and the Medieval Swahili City," paper delivered at the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Chattanooga, Tenn., 2010.
• Session chair, Redefining the Study of African Architecture, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2010.
• Session chair, The Past Within the Present Landscape, Vernacular Architecture Forum: Savannah and the Low Country, Savannah Ga., 2007.
• Session chair, Architecture and Representation in the Public Realm, 5th Savannah Symposium: Architecture in the Public Realm, Savannah, Ga., 2007.
• "Archaic Globalization and the Development of Medieval Swahili Architecture," paper delivered at the Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians conference, Savannah Ga., 2003.
• "Globalization and the Medieval Swahili City," paper delivered at the African Urban Spaces: History and Culture conference, University of Texas, Austin, Tex., 2003.
• Session chair, "Coercion, Control, and Mythification," 3rd Savannah Symposium: Commemoration and the City, Savannah Ga., 2003.
• Panelist for forum, "The Middle Eastern Cultural Landscape," presented by the Savannah College of Art and Design, Trustees Theater, Savannah, Ga., 2001.
• Session chair, "Contested Identities," 2nd Savannah Symposium: Authenticity in Architecture, Savannah Ga., 2001
• "The Colonial Question in Medieval East African History: The Nature of Economic and Cultural Interaction as Seen Through Architecture and Cities," paper delivered at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference, Binghamton University SUNY, Binghamton, N.Y., 1997.
• "At the Boundaries of Dar Al-Islam: Medieval Swahili Cities of the 14th and 15th Centuries," paper delivered at the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments conference, Berkeley, Calif., 1996.
• "The Architecture of the Islamic World," guest lecture, Department of Art History, University of California at Davis, 1993.