Dissertations
A list of recent dissertations
Maier, Angelica
"Toxic Matter: American Sculpture in the Techno-Chemical Age"
Hardy, Johnathan
"To Leave One's Mark: The Glyptic Arts of Zoroastrians and Christians in the Sasanian Empire (224 - 651 CE)"
Barton, Aleisha
"Your Eyes Are Limited": Psychedelic Aesthetics in the Postwar Age, 1966-1970
Atighi, Parisa
"The Manifestation of Collective Memory in Sasanian Art: The Artistic Constructs of Iranian Identity Among the Sasanian Local Elite (5th and 8th Centuries)"
Oh, Hyeongjin
"On Currents: How to Inscribe Patterns of the Pacific in Contemporary American Art History"
Patton, Ashley
"Tangible Women: Marble Sculptures of Female Saints in Seventeenth-Century Rome"
Reubendale, Vanessa
"Please Hold While I Connect You: Intermedia Art and Telecommunications in the Broadcast Network"
Otten, Nikki
"Alien Microbes: The Telescope, the Microscope, and Symbolist Artistic Vision in Nineteenth-Century France"
Stockmann, Colleen
"Weeds and Wildflowers:Drawing, Landscape, and Abolitionism in New York, 1850–1870"
Vargas Márquez, Natalia
"Looking Through the Landscape: Colonialism and the Indigenous Painters in Seventeenth-Century Cuzco"
Flaherty, Shannon
"Tell Me About It: The Role of Confession in Contemporary Art"
Prater, Erika
"Through the Woods: documenta, Fairy Tales, and the Time of Enchantment"
Acosta, Taylor
“Real and Ideal: The Reaslism of Jules Breton”
Michelon, Christina
"Interior Impressions: Printed Material in the Nineteenth-Century American Home"
Trittipo, Casey
"A Visual Affair: Popular Culture and L'Affaire Dreyfus"
Truitt, Andrea
"Experiencing the Otherworldly: Magazine Reading and Illustrations of Orientalist Domestic Space in the United States, 1880-1920"
Wolff, Rachel
"All that We Have: Performance Photographs and Artist Interviews in the Contemporary"
Heer, Melissa
The Breath within the Breath: Contemporary Performance Art Practices in India”
Joseph, Laura Wertheim
“Shadow Feminism: Disavowed Feminized Labor in Postwar American Art”
Swanson, Susan
“The Work of the Magi: Adoration Imagery and Visions of Globalization in Early Modern Europe”
DeLand, Lauren
“Invisible Men: The Risks and Pleasures of Self-Portrayal in the Work of Contemporary American Male Artists”
Franck, Sara
“Bucolic Architecture: Hellenistic Pastoral Temples in the Peloponnese”
Warren, Erica
“Munthe’s Myths: Designing a Norwegian Nation in Decorative Art”
Chisholm, Anna
“Fred Wilson’s ‘Un-Natural’ Histories: Race, Trauma, and the Visual Production of Knowledge”
Myers, Cerise
“Imagining the Posthuman: Art, Technology, and Living in the Future”
Rounthwaite, Adair
“Participation and Politics at the Dia Art Foundation, 1988–89”
Arcak, Sinem
“Gifts in Motion: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639”
Brash, Carol
"Keeping the Past Present: Representations of Ming Dynasty Gardens"
Geppert, Melissa
“Favela Effects: Brazilian Art at the Intersections of Community Development and Global Markets”
Green, Midori
“Sec’s Appeal: The Secretary in American Popular Culture, 1872–1964”
Chandra, Aditi
“On the Becoming and Unbecoming of Monuments: Archaeology, Tourism, and Delhi’s Islamic Architecture (1828–1963)”
Dalal, Radha
“At the Crossroads of Modernity, Space, and Identity: Istanbul and the Orient Express Train”
Gupta, Atreyee
“The Promise of the Modern: State, Culture, and Avant-Gardism in India (ca. 1930–1960)”
Latif, Riyaz
“Ornate Visions of Knowledge and Power: Formation of Marinid Madrasas in Maghrib al-Aqsā”
Maddipati, Venugopal
“Selfsame Spaces: Gandhi, Architecture, and Allusions in Twentieth-Century India”
Ray, Sugata
“In the Name of Krishna: Temple Architecture, Pilgrimage Practices, and the Making of a Cultural Landscape in Vrindavan”
Sik, Sarah
“Satire and Sadism: François-Rupert Carabin and the Symbolist Treatment of Female Form in Fin-de-Siècle France”
Aravecchia, Nicola
“Christians of the Western Desert in Late Antiquity: The Fourth-Century Church Complex of Ain el-Gedida in the Dakhleh Oasis, Upper Egypt”
Johnson Bidler
Tiffany, “Delineations: American Art History and the Discourse of Inheritance”
Roethke, Leigh
“A Passion for Spain: Españolismo in American Visual Culture”
Wilson, Paul
“The Global Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Nation and Longing in Contemporary Art”
Anderson, Kristin
“The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota”
Chung, Nogin
"Picturing American Women in the Postwar Period"
Heer, Melissa
The Breath within the Breath: Contemporary Performance Art Practices in India”
Joseph, Laura Wertheim
“Shadow Feminism: Disavowed Feminized Labor in Postwar American Art”
Swanson, Susan
“The Work of the Magi: Adoration Imagery and Visions of Globalization in Early Modern Europe”
DeLand, Lauren
“Invisible Men: The Risks and Pleasures of Self-Portrayal in the Work of Contemporary American Male Artists”
Franck, Sara
“Bucolic Architecture: Hellenistic Pastoral Temples in the Peloponnese”
Warren, Erica
“Munthe’s Myths: Designing a Norwegian Nation in Decorative Art”
Chisholm, Anna
“Fred Wilson’s ‘Un-Natural’ Histories: Race, Trauma, and the Visual Production of Knowledge”
Myers, Cerise
“Imagining the Posthuman: Art, Technology, and Living in the Future”
Rounthwaite, Adair
“Participation and Politics at the Dia Art Foundation, 1988–89”
Arcak, Sinem
“Gifts in Motion: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639”
Brash, Carol
"Keeping the Past Present: Representations of Ming Dynasty Gardens"
Geppert, Melissa
“Favela Effects: Brazilian Art at the Intersections of Community Development and Global Markets”
Green, Midori
“Sec’s Appeal: The Secretary in American Popular Culture, 1872–1964”
Chandra, Aditi
“On the Becoming and Unbecoming of Monuments: Archaeology, Tourism, and Delhi’s Islamic Architecture (1828–1963)”
Dalal, Radha
“At the Crossroads of Modernity, Space, and Identity: Istanbul and the Orient Express Train”
Gupta, Atreyee
“The Promise of the Modern: State, Culture, and Avant-Gardism in India (ca. 1930–1960)”
Latif, Riyaz
“Ornate Visions of Knowledge and Power: Formation of Marinid Madrasas in Maghrib al-Aqsā”
Maddipati, Venugopal
“Selfsame Spaces: Gandhi, Architecture, and Allusions in Twentieth-Century India”
Ray, Sugata
“In the Name of Krishna: Temple Architecture, Pilgrimage Practices, and the Making of a Cultural Landscape in Vrindavan”
Sik, Sarah
“Satire and Sadism: François-Rupert Carabin and the Symbolist Treatment of Female Form in Fin-de-Siècle France”
Aravecchia, Nicola
“Christians of the Western Desert in Late Antiquity: The Fourth-Century Church Complex of Ain el-Gedida in the Dakhleh Oasis, Upper Egypt”
Johnson Bidler
Tiffany, “Delineations: American Art History and the Discourse of Inheritance”
Roethke, Leigh
“A Passion for Spain: Españolismo in American Visual Culture”
Wilson, Paul
“The Global Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Nation and Longing in Contemporary Art”
Anderson, Kristin
“The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota”
Chung, Nogin
"Picturing American Women in the Postwar Period"
Hegstrom, Debra
"Gustav Stickley and American 'Home-making' in The Craftsman: Gender and Design Issues 1890–1915"
Kim, Hawon
"The 19th-Century Jain Pilgrimage Site of Satrunjaya, Gujarat"
Nelson, Andrea
"Reading Montage: The Photography Books of László Moholy-Nagy and Walker Evans"
Olson, Marsha
"Jesus, Mary, and All the Saints: Indo-Portuguese Ivory Statuettes and Their Role as Mission Art in 17th- to 18th-Century Goa"
Carlson, Elizabeth
"City of Mirrors: Spectacle and Surveillance in 19th Century Paris"
Eimen, Alisa
"Museum and Mosque: The Shifting Identities of Modern Iran"
Phillips, Kristy
"A Museum for the Nation: Publics and Politics at the National Museum of India"
Carlson, Elizabeth
"City of Mirrors: Spectacle and Surveillance in 19th Century Paris"
Eimen, Alisa
"Museum and Mosque: The Shifting Identities of Modern Iran"
Phillips, Kristy
"A Museum for the Nation: Publics and Politics at the National Museum of India"