Dissertations
COMPLETED DISSERTATIONS
1942-Present
DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS
As of June 2026
Bochicchio, Sarah, “Matronage: Art and Ambition in the Long Elizabethan Age” (M. Bass, T. Barringer)
Burke, Harry, “The Islands Between: Art, Animism, and Anticolonial Worldmaking in Archipelagic Southeast Asia” (P. Lee)
Cambronero Sanchez, David, “Enrique de Arfe, Corpus Christi, and the Processional Custodia from Cologne to Iberia and the Caribbean (c. 1480-1600)” (J. Jung)
Foo, Adela, “Crafting the Confederations: The Making of the Material Culture of the Aq Qoyunlu “White Sheep” Turkmen Confederation (1452-1508) (E. Cooke, Jr.)
Frier, Sara, “Unbearable Witness: The Disfigured Body in the Northern European Brief (1500-1620)” (N. Suthor)
Galdone, Isabella, “Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists and the Intersection of Painting, Needlework and Amateur Science” (T. Barringer, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Haberberg, Gabriel, “The Emergence of Maritime Art in the Dutch Empire” (M. Bass)
Harrison, Bennett, “Architectural Sculpture Between Catalonia and Aragonese Italy, 1440-1530” (M. Ng)
Herrmann, Mitchell, “The Art of the Living: Biological Life and Aesthetic Experience in the 21st Century” (P. Lee)
Hodson, Josie, “Something in Common: Black Art under Austerity in New York City, 1975-1990” (P. Lee)
Horwitz, Vu, “Palm Wine Cups from the Kuba Cultural Region” (E. Cooke, Jr.)
Hou, Ekalan, “Aesthetics of Counterinsurgency” (L. Lowe, J. Raab)
Keto, Elizabeth, “Reconstruction’s Objects: Art in the United States South, 1865-1900” (J. Raab)
Kim, Adela, “Beyond Institutional Critique: Tearing Up in the Work of Andrea Fraser” (P. Lee)
Klein, Colton, “Unfamiliar Material: Art and Invasive Species in the United States, 1869-1945” (J. Raab, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Koposova, Ekaterina, “Triumph and Terror in the Arts of the Franco-Dutch War” (M. Bass)
Lopez, Angie, “Thick and Fragile: Jerome Caja’s Art and Legacy” (J. Fiduccia)
Marquardt, Savannah, “Chthon: Material Eschatologies of Burial in Colonial Southern Italy (5th-4th c BCE)” (M. Gaifman)
Miraval, Nathalie, “Sacred Subversions: Martha, Monsters, and Domestic Devotion in the Early Modern Afro-Iberian Atlantic” (C. Fromont)
Mizbani, Sharon, “Mediated Waters: Architectures of Thirst and Nourishment in Late-Ottoman Istanbul” (K. Rizvi)
Molarsky-Beck, Marina, “Seeing the Unseen: Queer Artistic Subjectivity in Interwar Photography” (C. Armstrong)
Nisar, Muhammad Hasan, “Amorous Art: The Visual Culture of Love at Jahangir’s Court” (K. Rizvi)
Olfat, Faraz, “Eclecticism in Architecture and the Politics of Nation Building, 1870-1920” (C. Buckley, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Petrilli-Jones, Sara, “Drafting the Canon: Legal Histories of Art in Florence and Rome, 1600-1800” (N. Suthor)
Porsella, Madeline, “En Pleine Mer: The Aquarium and the Making of the Modern Interior” (C. Buckley, J. Fiduccia)
Potuckova, Kristina, “The Arts of Women’s Monastic Liturgy, Holy Roman Empire, 1000-1200” (J. Jung)
Quaintance, Kathleen, “Obsolescence Looms: The Temporalities of Modern American Handweaving, c. 1900-1969” (E. Cooke, Jr.)
Rahn, Usha, “Visionary Reiterations: Transformative Representations of Bodh Gayā, 1000-1300 CE” (M. Yiengpruksawan)
Rapoport, Sarah, “Industrial Japonisme: Japanese ‘Art Work’ in England and France, 1865-1891” (C. Armstrong, T. Barringer)
Valladares, Carlos, “Jacques Demy” (P. Lee)
Wang, Julia Qingye, “Painting the Luminous Heart: The Biographical Tradition and Mystical Worlds in Safavid Art” (K. Rizvi)
Wu, Simon, “’Get Rid of Yourself”: Asian American Art Networks, Bernadette Corporation, and Emily’s Sassy Lime (P. Lee, N. Tavia)