Alumni Publications

Curators, scholars, teachers, and cultural leaders, our alumni pursue a startling array of research projects; from baseball stadiums to fine art, from ancient civilizations to avant-garde performance, from religious ritual to folk traditions, and from object-centered to theory-based analyses. Here is a selection of books published by alumni going back to the beginnings of the department and across a range of subfields:

Author	Title, Publisher, & Publication Date
Kristin Anderson PhD, 2008	How (Not) to Build a Ballpark: The 1884 Minneapolis Grounds Phoenix: Society for American Baseball Research, 2012
Deanna Bendix PhD, 1992	Diabolical Designs: Paintings, Interiors, and Exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995
Rebecca Brown PhD, 1999	Gandhi’s Spinning Wheel and the Making of India London: Routledge, 2010
Betty Bright PhD, 2000	No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America, 1960-1980 New York: Granary Books; D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2005
Nina Cichocki Ergin PhD, 2005	Bathing Culture of Anatolian Civilizations: Architecture, History, and Imagination Paris: Leuven, 2011
Colleen Denney PhD, 1990	Women, Portraiture and the Crisis of Identity in Victorian England: My Lady Scandalous Reconsidered Farnham: Ashgate, 2009
Deepali Dewan PhD, 2001	Embellished Reality: Indian Painted Photographs: Towards a Transcultural History of Photography Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum Press, 2012
Erika Doss PhD, 1983	Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991
Charles Eldredge PhD, 1971	C. Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993
Atreyee Gupta PhD, 2011	The Global, The Local, The Contemporary, The Collaborative., in Deborah S. Hutton and Rebecca M. Brown, eds. Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500–Present New York: Routledge, 2016
Adam Harris PhD, 2000	Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009
Joel Hollander PhD, 1995	Coloured Political Lithographs as Irish Propaganda: Warrior Artists and the Battle for Home Rule, 1879-1886 Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellon Press, 2007
Deborah Hutton PhD, 2000	Art of the Court of Bijapur Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006
Robert Jacobsen PhD, 1984	Historical and Literary Evidence for Stylistic Change in Early Chinese Bronzes: The Pillsbury Collection Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1989
Julie L'Enfant PhD, 1996	William Rossetti's Art Criticism: The Search for Truth in Victorian Art Lanham: University Press of America, 1999
Brian Madigan PhD, 1982	The Ceremonial Sculptures of the Roman Gods Leiden: Brill, 2013
Elizabeth Menon Mix PhD, 1994	Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme Fatale Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006
Eileen Michels and Dale Milfinger PhD, 1971	The Architecture of Edwin Lundie St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1995
Lisa Dickinson Michaux PhD, 2001	Herschel V. Jones: The Imprint of a Great Collector Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2006
Andrea Nelson PhD, 2007	The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015
Marion Nelson PhD, 1974	Norwegian Folk Art: The Migration of a Tradition New York: Abbeville Press; Oslo: Museum of American Folk Art Edition, 1995
Edward Olszewski PhD, 1974	Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings London: Harvey Miller, 2008
Sugata Ray PhD, 2012	Water is a Limited Commodity: Ecological Aesthetics in the Little Ice Age, Mathura, ca. 1614, in Liquescent Materiality: Water in Global South Asia New Delhi: Routledge, 2017
Adair Rounthwaite PhD, 2013	Asking the Audience: The Affective Politics of Participation in New York Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017
Joan Rothfuss MA, 1992	Topless Cellist: The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2014