Archie Williams

M.Phil.: Islamic Art and Architecture

Supervisor: Dr Umberto Bongianino
Email: archie.williams@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Education:
2017–20: BA (Hons) in History, Homerton College, University of Cambridge. (First with distinction). Dissertation title: The 1648 Windsor Shahnameh and Late Safavid Provincial Governorship
2020-22: MPhil Islamic Art and Architecture, Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Thesis working title: The Salcombe Cannon Hoard, Saadian Coinage, and the operation of the Marrakesh Mint

Research interests:
Maghrebi numismatics
Trans-saharan exchange
Colonial encounters with Islamic art and architecture
Contemporary issues of global heritage management

Awards:
Photo-essay Constructing the Late Antique Desert awarded second place in Judith McKenzie Essay Prize
Undergraduate dissertation nominated for CRBL Dissertation of the Year
Simms Benefaction Awardand Foundation Prize for Finals results

Other Experience:
Balfour Peace Advocacy Fellow (2021-2)
Intern, Centre for Historic Houses of India (2021-2)
ILUCIDARE summer school ‘Heritage andI nnovation: Central Europe and Beyond’, Krakow (July 2021)
Intern, Cambridge Shahnameh Centre for Persian Studies (2019-20)