Dissertations
COMPLETED DISSERTATIONS
1942-Present
DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS
As of July 2025
Betik, Blair Katherine, “Altars on the Roman Frontiers: Ritual Objects in Real Space.” (M. Gaifman)
Bochicchio, Sarah, “Matronage: Art and Ambition in the Long Elizabethan Age” (M. Bass, T. Barringer)
Boyd, Nicole, “Science, Craft, Art, Theater: Four ‘Perspectives’ on the Painted Architecture of Angelo Michele Colonna and Agostino Mitelli” (N. Suthor)
Burke, Harry, “The Islands Between: Art, Animism, and Anticolonial Worldmaking in Archipelagic Southeast Asia” (P. Lee)
Chau, Tung, “Strange New Worlds: Interfaces in the Work of Cao Fei” (P. Lee)
Datta, Yagnaseni, “Materialising Illusions: Visual Translation in the Mughal Jug Basisht, c. 1602” (K. Rizvi)
de Luca, Theo, “Nicolas Poussin’s Chronotopes” (N. Suthor)
Donnelly, Michelle. “Spatialized Impressions: American Printmaking Outside the Workshop, 1935–1975” (J. Raab)
Galdone, Isabella, “Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists and the Intersection of Painting, Needlework and Amateur Science” (T. Barringer, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Fialho, Alex, “Apertures onto AIDS: African American Photography and the Art History of the Storage Unit” (P. Lee, T Nyong’o)
Foo, Adela, “Crafting the Confederations: The Making of the Material Culture of the Aq Qoyunlu “White Sheep” Turkmen Confederation (1452-1508) (E. Cooke, Jr.)
Franciosi, Caterina, “Latent Light: Energy and Nineteenth-Century British Art” (T. Barringer)
Frier, Sara, “Unbearable Witness: The Disfigured Body in the Northern European Brief (1500-1620)” (N. Suthor)
Haffner, Michaela, “Nature Cure: ”White Wellness” and the Visual Culture of Natural Health, 1870-1930” (J. Raab)
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)
Hong, Kevin, “Intimate Exposures: Critical Histories of the Polaroid Corporation” (C. Armstrong, J. Raab)
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)
Koposova, Ekaterina, “Triumph and Terror in the Arts of the Franco-Dutch War” (M. Bass)
Levy Haskell, Gavriella, “The Imaginative Painter”: Visual Narrative and the Interactive Painting in Britain, 1851-1914” (T. Barringer, E. Cooke Jr)
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” (A. Caplan, 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)
Phillips, Kate, “American Ephemera” (J. Raab)
Potuckova, Kristina, “The Arts of Women’s Monastic Liturgy, Holy Roman Empire, 1000-1200” (J. Jung)
Quaintance, Kathleen, “Obsolescence Looms: The Persistence of Modern Handweaving, c. 1900-1969 (E. Cooke, Jr.)
Rapoport, Sarah, “The Creative Machine: Art and Industry between England and France, 1867-1889” (C. Armstrong, T. Barringer)
Robbins, Isabella, “Relationality and Being: Indigeneity, Space and Transit in Global Contemporary Art” (P. Lee, N. Blackhawk)
Valladares, Carlos, “Jacques Demy” (P. Lee)
Wang, Xueli, “Performing Disappearance: Maggie Cheung and the Off-Screen” (Q. Ngan)
Webley, John, “Ink, Paint, and Blood: India and the Great Game in Russian Culture” (T. Barringer, M. Brunson)
Wisowaty, Stephanie, “Painted Processional Crosses in Central Italy, 1250-1500: Movement, Mediation and Multisensory Effects” (J. Jung)
Wu, Simon, “’Get Rid of Yourself”: Asian American Art Networks, Bernadette Corporation, and Emily’s Sassy Lime” (P. Lee, N. Tavia)
Zhou, Joyce Yusi, “In the Company of Her Things: Women, Art, and Material Culture in Early Modern Batavia” (M. Bass, E. Cooke, Jr.)