Joanna G. Williams (UC Berkeley)

Joanna G. Williams
Professor, History of Art & South/Southeast Asian Studies
University of California, Berkeley
416 Doe Library, U.C. Berkeley #6020
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

phones: 510-642-4353 (office)
        510-548-0939 (residence)
fax:    510-643-2185
email:  prusty@berkeley.edu

Description of work:
Discipline: Art History
Teaching:  Arts of South & Southeast Asia 
Past (and continuing) research:  
  Art of Gupta India, 4-6th century
  Illustrations of the Ramayana in Orissa
     (palm-leaf and pata chittra),18-20th c.

Current interests: sculptural practice in producing images,focus Orissa;
 interaction between artisans & authority (religious, political);
 ascription of meaning and value to images;
 conntinuum between "folk art" & elite imagery,focus Mewar