African Art
Ross, Emma, “Aesthetic Experience and Expression: Representation of Dan Women in the Cote d'Ivoire”
(Yale University, R. Thompson)
Architectural History/Historic Preservation
Brown, Marisa Angell, “Imagined Communities: The Architecture and Image of Public Housing in America (1934-1974)”
(Yale University, S. Isenstadt)
Swan, Christopher, “An Alternative Modernism: The Pacific Northwest Architecture of John Yeon”
(Yale University, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Zirnheld, Bernard. “Fin de Siècle, Fin du Régime: Republican Architecture and Planning in the Rue Réaumur”
(Yale University, C. Armstrong)
Art of the United States
Byrd, Dana E., “Reconstructions: Material Life of the Plantation, 1861-1877”
(
Yale University, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Green, Robin C. (Cowie), “‘A Certain Slant of Light’: Exhilaration, Oppression, and the Forces of Sunlight in American Impressionism”
(Yale University, A. Nemerov)
Jacks Gamble, Lauren, “Accretions of Space and Time: The Environmental Art of John Trumbull”
(Yale University, A. Nemerov)
Kurtz, Amy, “Old Worlds and New: Edward Lamson Henry (1814-1919), Conservative Genre Painting”
(Yale University, J. Prown)
Mann, Crawford Alexander III, “When in Rome: Italian Travel and the Pursuit of the Ideal Male Body in Antebellum American Art”
(Yale University, A. Nemerov)
Wolf, Vanessa, “Surplus Feeling: War and Remembrance in Lee Bontecou's Wall Reliefs, 1958-1966”
(Yale University, A. Nemerov)
Chinese Art
Greenberg, Daniel, “The Art of Tribute in the Reign of the Qianlong Emperor”
(Yale University, L. Tseng)
Rasmussen, Kenneth, “Wang Shen (born ca. l048) and Landscape Painting Among the Elite in Northern Song China, 1069-1120)”
(Yale University, R. Barnhart)
Yang, Yan, “The Real Space of the Toji Landscape Screen: A study of its Cultural and Religious Contexts”
(Yale University, M.Yiengpruksawan)
Contemporary Art
Kim, Joy Jeehye, “From New Documents to Pictures: Lee Friedlander and the Re-making of the Photographic Image (1962-1989)”
(Yale University, D. Joselit)
Decorative Arts/Textiles/Design History
Byrd, Dana E., “Reconstructions: Material Life of the Plantation, 1861-1877”
(Yale University, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Carr, Dennis, “Early Furnituremaking in the Narragansett Basin, 1636-1740”
(Yale University, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Hartzell, Freyja, “Delight in Sachlichkeit: Richard Riemerschmid and the
Thingliness of Things”
(Yale University, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Houghteling, Sylvia, “When Textiles Lost their Figures: The Politics of Cloth ca. 1700”
(Yale University, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Joy, Catherine Lanford, “Reflecting Refinement: The Making and Meaning of Silver Metal in Antebellum Boston, 1800-1875”
(Yale University, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Drawings/Prints/Photography/Works on Paper
Anderson, Ash, “Moving Pictures: Motion and Time in Photography at the Institute of Design”
(Yale University, D. Joselit)
Early Medieval/Romanesque/Gothic Art
Cornett, Maren, “Or dient les images (Now the Images Speak): Visual Narrative in BN fr. 95”
(Yale, University, R. Nelson, R.H. Bloch)
Labatt, Annie, “In Search of the “Eastern” Image: Sacred Painting in Eighth and Ninth Century Rome”
(Yale University, R. Nelson)
Larocco-Boyce, Elizabeth, “Miracula Sanctae Virginis: Marian Miracle Illustration in the Thirteenth Century Manuscripts of Gautier de Coinci's Les Miracles de Notre Dame”
(Yale University, W. Cahn)
Kibbey, D. Marshall, “Historical Assemblage and the Aggregate Object in the Later Middle Ages”
(Yale University, C. Wood)
Prescher, Amy, “Saxon Convent Architecture: The Diocese of Halberstadt in the High Middle Ages”
(Yale University, J. Jung)
Sullivan, Timothy, “Interactions Between Codex and Panel”
(Yale University, C. Wood)
Eighteenth-Century Art
Badja-Pawlikowska, Michalina, “Thinking in Pictures, Painting with Words: Thomas Hardy as Visual Artist”
(Yale University, T. Barringer, R. Yeazell)
Gamer, Meredith, “Criminal and Martyr: Art and Religion in Britain's Early Modern Eighteenth Century”
(Yale University, T. Barringer)
Portugeis, Chloe, “The Mythic School: the Visual and the Visionary in Late-Victorian Painting”
(Yale University, T. Barringer)
Greek/Roman Art
Grossmann, Richard, “Posthumous Imperial Portraits: The Afterlives of Roman Emperors' Images”
(Yale University, D. Kleiner)
Jones, Nathaniel, “Nobilibus Pinacothecae Sunt Faciundae: The Inception of the Fictive Picture Gallery in Augustan Rome”
(Yale University, D. Kleiner)
Teverson, Richard, “Augustan Kings: The Art and Architecture of Herod the Great of Judea and Juba II of Mauretania”
(Yale University, D. Kleiner)
Islamic Art
Seggerman, Alexandra Dika, “Revolution and Renaissance in Modern Egyptian Art, 1880-1960”
(Yale University, K. Rizvi, D. Joselit)
Japanese/Korean Art
Bailey, Bradley, “Over There: Yoga, Japonisme and a New Orientalism”
(Yale University, M. Yiengpruksawan)
Latin American/Caribbean Art
Cordero, Karen, "The Invention of Popular Art: A Paradigm for the Construction of Mexican Visual Culture, 1915-1940”
(Yale University, M. Miller)
Josten, Jennifer, “Mathias Goeritz and Contemporary Art in Mexico, 1950-1968”
(Yale University, D. Joselit)
Ryu, Sara, “Made by Human Hands: Authorship, Agency, and the Colonial Artifact in New Spain”
(Yale University, C. Wood)
Nineteenth Century Art
Bailey, Bradley, “Over There: Yoga, Japonisme and a New Orientalism”
(Yale University, M. Yiengpruksawan)
Jacks Gamble, Lauren, “Accretions of Space and Time: The Environmental Art of John Trumbull”
(Yale University, A. Nemerov)
Kesson, Anna Arabindan, “Threads of Empire: Art and the Cotton Trade in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean Worlds, 1840-1930.”
(Yale University, T. Barringer, H. Carby)
Mann, Crawford Alexander III., “When in Rome: Italian Travel and the Pursuit of the Ideal Male Body in Antebellum American Art”
(Yale University, A. Nemerov)
Pattee, Mary Dailey, “Claude Monet: Behind the Light”
(C. Armstrong)
Taroutina, Maria, “From the Tessara to the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival”
(D. Joselit, T. Barringer)
Zirnheld, Bernard, “Fin de Siècle, Fin du Régime: Republican Architecture and Planning in the Rue Réaumur”
(Yale University, C. Armstrong
Pre-Columbian Art
Gomez-Tejada, Jorge, “In Image and in Word: The Codex Mendoza and the Invention of the Ancient Americas for early modern audiences (1553-1838)”
(Yale University, M. Miller)
Terry, James, “Signifying Architecture: Maya Architecture of Chicanna and the Central Yucatan”
(Yale University, M. Miller)
Renaissance/Baroque
Allan, Eva, “The Triumph Theme and its Variations in Long Renaissance Prints”
(Yale University, C. Wood, A. Dunlop)
Brisman, Shira, “The Hand-Written Letter and the Work of Art in the Age of the Printing Press, 1490-1530”
(Yale University, C. Wood)
Byron, David, “The Visual and Social Strategies of German Propaganda Broadsheets, 1608-1621”
(Yale University, C. Wood)
Churchill, Derek, “Replication in the Early Netherlandish Tradition: Dieric Bouts and His Copyists”
(Yale University, C. Wood)
Kozlowski, Sarah K., “Bodies Distant, Dead, and Divine: Intersections of Portrait, Tomb, and Icon in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Naples”
(Yale University, C. Wood)
Nelson, Jennifer, “Talismans of Art and the Combinatoric Mode in Northern Europe, 1510-1555”
(Yale University, C. Wood)
Ryu, Sara, “Made by Human Hands: Authorship, Agency, and the Colonial Artifact in New Spain”
(Yale University, C. Wood)
South/Southeast Asian Art
Shaffer, Holly, ”Of men and gods and things” Art Production and Collection in India in Edward Moor’s The Hindu Pantheon, 1810”
(Yale University, T. Barringer, T. Sears)
Twentieth Century Art
Anderson, Ash, “Moving Pictures: Motion and Time in Photography at the Institute of Design”
(Yale University, D. Joselit)
Barron-Duncan, Rachael, “Fashioning Surrealism: the Making of Radical Couture, 1925-1938”
(Yale University, C. Mehring)
Hartzell, Freyja, “Delight in Sachlichkeit: Richard Riemerschmid and the
Thingliness of Things”
(Yale University, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Josten, Jennifer. “Mathias Goeritz and Contemporary Art in Mexico, 1950-1968”
(Yale University, D. Joselit)
Seggerman, Alexandra Dika, “Revolution and Renaissance in Modern Egyptian Art, 1880-1960”
(Yale University, K. Rizvi, D. Joselit)
Smythe, Luke, “Lightness and Loss: Abstraction in the Art of Gerhard Richter.”
(Yale University, D. Joselit, C. Mehring)
Weibgen, Lara, “Orientations in Artistic Space: Moscow Conceptualism and the Aesthetics of Mereness, 1975-1989”
(Yale University, D. Joselit)
Wendt, Pan, “Social Fabric: The Group Cloth Works of James Lee Byars, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Franz Erhard Walther, 1967-70”
(Yale Univeristy, D. Joselit, C. Mehring)
Wolf, Vanessa, “Surplus Feeling: War and Remembrance in Lee Bontecou's Wall Reliefs, 1958-1966”
(Yale University, A. Nemerov)
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