Dissertations
COMPLETED DISSERTATIONS
1942-Present
DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS
As of July 2024
Bartunkova, Barbora, “Sites of Resistance: Antifascism and the Czechoslovak Avant-garde” (C. Armstrong)
Betik, Blair Katherine, “Altars on the Roman Frontiers: Ritual Objects in Real Space.” (M. Gaifman)
Burke, Harry, “The Islands Between: Art, Animism, and Anticolonial Worldmaking in Archipelagic Southeast Asia” (P. Lee)
Boyd, Nicole, “Science, Craft, Art, Theater: Four ‘Perspectives’ on the Painted Architecture of Angelo Michele Colonna and Agostino Mitelli” (N Suthor).
Chau, Tung, “Strange New Worlds: Interfaces in the Work of Cao Fei” (P. Lee)
Cox, Emily, “Perverse Modernism, 1884-1900” (C. Armstrong, T. Barringer)
Datta, Yagnaseni, “Materialising Illusions: Visual Translation in the Mughal Jug Basisht, c. 1602.” (K. Rizvi)
de Luca, Theo, “Nicolas Poussin’s Chronotopes” (N. Suthor)
Del Bonis-O’Donnell, Asia, “Trees and the Visualization of kosmos in Archaic and Classical Athenian Art” (Yale University, M. Gaifman)
Demby, Nicole, “The Diplomatic Image: Framing Art and Internationalism, 1945-1960” (K. Mercer)
Donnelly, Michelle. “Spatialized Impressions: American Printmaking Outside the Workshop, 1935–1975” (J. Raab)
Epifano, Angie, “Building the Samorian State: Material Culture, Architecture, and Cities across West Africa” (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 Aq Qoyuniu Court (1475-1490) (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)
Galdone, Isabella, “Interwoven: Women Makers at the Intersection of Needlework and Painting in Victoria Britain” (T. Barringer, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Gaudet, Manon, “Property and the Contested Ground of North American Visual Culture, 1900-1945” (E. Cooke, Jr.)
Haffner, Michaela, “Nature Cure: ”White Wellness” and the Visual Culture of Natural Health, 1870-1930” (J. Raab)
Herrmann, Mitchell, “The Art of the Living: Biological Life and Aesthetic Experience in the 21st Century” (P. Lee)
Higgins, Lily, “Reading into Things: Articulate Objects in Colonial North America, 1650-1783” (E. Cooke, Jr.)
Hodson, Josie, “Something in Common: Black Art under Austerity in New York City, 1975-1990” (P. Lee)
Hong, Kevin, “Plasticity, Fungibility, Toxicity: Photography’s Ecological Entanglements in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States” (C. Armstrong, J Raab)
Horwitz, Vu, “Palm Wine Cups from the Kuba Cultural Region” (Edward Cooke, Jr.)
Kim, Adela, “Beyond Institutional Critique: Tearing Up in the Work of Andrea Fraser” (P. Lee)
Kitlinski, Sophia, “The Bureaucracy of Ritual: Spanish Administrative Iconography and Afro-Cuban Sacred Drawing in Nineteenth-Century Cuba” (J. Raab)
Keto, Elizabeth, “Reconstruction’s Objects: Art in the United States South, 1861-1900.” (J. Raab)
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” (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)
Nagy, Renata, “Remaking Natural History in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe” (M. Bass)
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)
Rapoport, Sarah, “James Jacques-Joseph Tissot in the Interstices of Modernity” (T. Barringer, C. Armstrong)
Robbins, Isabella, “Relationality and Being: Indigeneity, Space and Transit in Global Contemporary Art” (P. Lee, N. Blackhawk)
Sellati, Lillian, “When is Herakles Not Himself? Mediating Cultural Plurality in Greater Central Asia, 330 BCE – 365 CE” (M. Gaifman)
Valladares, Carlos, “Jacques Demy” (P. Lee)
Wang, Xueli, “Performing Disappearance: Maggie Cheung and the Off-Screen” (Q. Ngan)
Werwie, Katherine, “Visions Across the Gates: Materiality, Symbolism, and Communication in the Historiated Wooden Doors of Medieval European Churches” (J. Jung)
Wisowaty, Stephanie, “Painted Processional Crosses in Central Italy, 1250-1400: Movement, Mediation and Multisensory Effects” (J. Jung)
Webley, John, “Ink, Paint, and Blood: India and the Great Game in Russian Culture” (T. Barringer, M. Brunson)
Young, Colin, “Desert Places: The Visual Culture of the Prairies and the Pampas across the Nineteenth Century” (J. Raab)
Zhou, Joyce Yusi, “The Art and Material Culture of Women in Early Modern Batavia” (M. Bass, E. Cooke, Jr.)