Caroline Astrid Bruzelius

Duke University

Caroline Astrid Bruzelius is the A. M. Cogan Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University and a founder of Visualizing Venice and Wired!. She has published widely on architecture and sculpture in medieval France and Italy. Her books include Cistercian High Gothic: Longpont and the Architecture of the Cistercian Order in the Thirteenth Century (1979),The Thirteenth-Century Church at St. Denis (1985), The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art in the Duke University Museum of Art (1991), The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Kingdom 1266-1343 (2004), and Medieval Naples: An Architectural and Urban History(2011). Another book on the architecture of the mendicant orders, Friars and the Medieval City: Preaching, Building, and Burying, awaits publication. Several of these books have been translated into French or Italian.

From 1994 to 1998 Bruzelius was Director of the American Academy in Rome. She is the
recipient of numerous grants and honors, including support from the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, The American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Association, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the National Humanities Center, the Duke University Alumni Teaching Award, and the Fulbright Foundation. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.