Dissertations
A list of recent dissertations
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2020
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" -
2019
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" -
2018
Acota, Taylor
“Real and Ideal: The Reaslism of Jules Breton”Michelon, Christina
"Interior Impressions: Printed Material in the Nineteenth-Century American Home" -
2016
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" -
2015
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” -
2014
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” -
2013
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” -
2012
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” -
2011
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” -
2010
Sik, Sarah
“Satire and Sadism: François-Rupert Carabin and the Symbolist Treatment of Female Form in Fin-de-Siècle France” -
2009
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” -
2008
Anderson, Kristin
“The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota”Chung, Nogin
"Picturing American Women in the Postwar Period" -
2007
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" -
2006
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"