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Joseph C. Williams
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Art, Art History & Visual Studies
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East Duke Building
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Phone: (202) 642-0821
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Overview
Joseph Williams is a second year PhD student studying with Dr. Caroline Bruzelius. His research focuses on Norman architecture in eleventh- and twelfth-century South Italy and Sicily, with a particular emphasis on the division of labor in architectural workshops and the effects of transculturation in the medieval Mediterranean. Joseph received his BA from Bates College, where he wrote an honors thesis on medieval Sienese painting. He earned his Master’s degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art, studying medieval architecture with Paul Crossley, and earned a distinction in his thesis "Fra Vernaccio and Fra Melano: The Cistercian Masters of Siena Duomo." At Duke, he is an active member of the WIRED lab and has participated in a number of collaborative digital projects, most recently Visualizing Venice, which engages Italian and American collaborators to produce digital narratives of Venice’s architectural and urban transformations over time.
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Specialties
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Medieval Architecture & Sculpture, History of France & Italy
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Areas of Interest
Norman architecture in Italy
Mediterranean cross-cultural exchange
Islamic architecture
Workshops and manufacture
Social effects of built space
Digital humanities
