Dissertations in Progress
Note that some dissertations are listed in multiple subject areas.
Sledge, David, “Race and the Visual Publics of American Modernist Art, 1920-40” (E. Hutchinson)
Unger, Gwen, “Other Selves: Critical Self-Portraiture in Cuba during the 'Special Period in time of Peace,' 1989-1999” (A. Alberro)
Tamur, Erhan, “Site-worlds: An Account of Material Lives from Tello (ancient Girsu)” (Z. Bahrani)
Barnard, Bailey, "Royal Posturing: Staging the Hellenistic Ruler in Portraits and in Person" (I. Mylonopoulos)
Bulger, Monica, "Facing Forward: Frontality in the Archaic Period" (I. Mylonopoulos)
Christiaens, Karin E., "Passageways to Public Space: The Greek Agora in the Hellenistic and Imperial Periods" (F. de Angelis)
Ekserdjian, Alexander, "Immortal Bodies: The Sculptural Representation of Mortals and Gods in the Sanctuaries of Central Italy" (F. de Angelis)
Woldman, Joseph, “Look at Me: Faces and Gazes in Sixth - Fifth Century Etruria” (F. de Angelis)
Christiaens, Karin E., "Passageways to Public Space: The Greek Agora in the Hellenistic and Imperial Periods" (F. de Angelis)
Engler, Rachel Julia, "Televangelical Space, 1955–1985" (B. Bergdoll)
Jiang, Angel, “Plateresque Fantasies: Architecture and Ornament in Renaissance Spain” (M. Waters)
Kite, Whitney, "The Lay of the Land: Armenian Monasteries in their Local Landscapes" (H. Klein)
Wang, Y. L. Lucy, “Contagious places, curative spaces: Disease in the making of modern Chinese architecture, 1894-1949” (B. Bergdoll)
Oh, Sehyun, "The Land Surveyors from the Outside: Documentation of Immigrants in an American Northwest Environment by Kyō Koike and Iwao Matsushita, c. 1920-1940" (J. Reynolds)
Unger, Gwen, “Other Selves: Critical Self-Portraiture in Cuba during the 'Special Period in time of Peace,' 1989-1999” (A. Alberro)
Ochmanek, Annie, “Conceptualism and the Connexionist World, 1969-1971” (B. Joseph)
Superfine, Molly, "Radical Touch: Performative Sculpture and Assemblage in the 1970s" (K. Jones)
Blair, Susannah, "Constantin Guys and Modern Life: 1840-1870" (J. Crary)
Mellon, Diana, “Bathing in the Renaissance: Bodies & Landscape in the Campi Flegrei” (M. Cole and D. Freedberg)
Nisse, Cleo, "Unraveling Canvas: Textile Supports and Venetian Painting from Bellini to Tintoretto" (D. Bodart)
Unger, Gwen, “Other Selves: Critical Self-Portraiture in Cuba during the 'Special Period in time of Peace,' 1989-1999” (A. Alberro)
Merkin, Sophia, “Collecting Oceania: Pacific objects, histories, and data in 19th-century U.S. museums” (Z. Strother)
Jiang, Chen, “Repainting the Past: Kikuchi Yōsai’s (1788-1878) Visualization of History” (M. McKelway)
Kim, Hae Yeun, “Unkoku Tōgan (1547–1618) and Painting in Early Modern Western Japan” (M. McKelway)
Kuromiya, Naomi,"Finding the Past in the Future: Tracing 'the Integrated Artwork' in Modern Japan" (J. Reynolds)
Seo, Yeongik, "Kano Sanraku (1559-1635) and New Iconography for Early Modern Kyoto" (M. McKelway)
Zhu, Cathy M., "Born in a Golden Light: Omens, Art, and Succession in the Southern Song, 1127-1279" (R. Harrist)
Zinner, Valerie, "Sumiyoshi Gukei and Early Modern Yamato-e" (M. McKelway)
Dostal, Zoë, "Rope, Linen, Thread: Gender, Labor, and the Textile Industry in Eighteenth-Century British Art" (M. Gamer)
Dillon, Claire, “Constructing the histories of Norman Sicily: Production, power, and fragmentation in the textile industry and beyond” (A. Shalem)
Le Pouésard, Emma, “Contested Sites of Feminine Agency: Ivory Grooming Implements in Late Medieval Europe” (H. Klein)
Zhu, Cathy M., "Born in a Golden Light: Omens, Art, and Succession in the Southern Song, 1127-1279" (R. Harrist)
Dostal, Zoë, "Rope, Linen, Thread: Gender, Labor, and the Textile Industry in Eighteenth-Century British Art" (M. Gamer)
Takaes, Ianick, “Renaissance Heaven — The Empyrean in the Art of the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italian Peninsula” (M. Cole)
Le Pouésard, Emma, “Contested Sites of Feminine Agency: Ivory Grooming Implements in Late Medieval Europe” (H. Klein)
Marshall, Piper, "Who Speaks: Ericka Beckman's New Talkies" (B. Joseph)
Clemens, Olivia, "Forming 'Islamic Art' in the United States: Collecting and Exhibiting in the American Context, c. 1880-1940" (A. Shalem)
Dillon, Claire, “Constructing the histories of Norman Sicily: Production, power, and fragmentation in the textile industry and beyond” (A. Shalem)
Hutcheson, Rachel, “Color Photography, 1890-1920: Technology, Gender, Colonialism” (N. Elcott)
Migwans, Crystal, "Selvage and Salvage: Natural Fiber Weaving in Anishinaabe-aki, 1860-1960" (E. Hutchinson)
Superfine, Molly, "Radical Touch: Performative Sculpture and Assemblage in the 1970s" (K. Jones)
Croggon, Nicholas, "Reconstructing the Utopian Moment: Experimental Video Practices in the 1970s" (B. Joseph)
Glama, Barthélemy, “How Colonial Archaeology Transformed the Louvre: Antiquities, Empire, and the Encyclopedic Museum in France, 1830-1870” (A. Higonnet and Z. Bahrani)
Kuruvilla, Tara, "Disjecta Membra: The Dispersal and Afterlife of the India Museum (1801-1879)" (V. Dehejia)
Migwans, Crystal, "Selvage and Salvage: Natural Fiber Weaving in Anishinaabe-aki, 1860-1960" (E. Hutchinson)
Blair, Susannah, "Constantin Guys and Modern Life: 1840-1870" (J. Crary)
Fein, Katherine, “The Garb of Nature: Picturing Nudity, Race, and Ecology in the Nineteenth-Century United States” (E. Hutchinson)
Glama, Barthélemy, “How Colonial Archaeology Transformed the Louvre: Antiquities, Empire, and the Encyclopedic Museum in France, 1830-1870” (A. Higonnet and Z. Bahrani)
Jiang, Chen, “Repainting the Past: Kikuchi Yōsai’s (1788-1878) Visualization of History” (M. McKelway)
Kuruvilla, Tara, "Disjecta Membra: The Fragmentation of the India Museum and the Colonial Construction of Knowledge over the Long Nineteenth Century" (V. Dehejia)
Onabanjo, Oluremi, “Agudas as Afro-Brazilians: Imaging an Atlantic Community Between São Salvador and Lagos” (Z. Strother)
Ralston, Daniel, "Painting in Spanish: Fortuny, Manet, and the Image of Spain in the Later Nineteenth Century" (A. Higonnet)
Woolley, Heather, "Miraculous Technologies: The Supernatural in Modern Image Making, 1800-1900" (J. Crary)
Zivkovic, Alex, "Ambient Empire: Ecologies, Colonies, and Dreamworlds in Modern Paris, 1860-1940" (N. Elcott)
Fein, Katherine, “The Garb of Nature: Picturing Nudity, Race, and Ecology in the Nineteenth-Century United States” (E. Hutchinson)
Sledge, David, “Race and the Visual Publics of American Modernist Art, 1920-40” (E. Hutchinson)
Landsman, Rozemarijn, "Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712): Art, Technology, and the City” (D. Freedberg)
Mayer, Mateusz, "Albrecht Dürer: The Portraitist" (D. Bodart)
Merkin, Sophia, “Historic Objects and Contemporary Display: the Past, Present, and Future Lives of Robert Louis Stevenson's Polynesian Barkcloths” (Z. Strother)
Miller, Caitlin, “Leonardeschi Reconsidered: Giovanni Boltraffio, Andrea Solario, and Bernardino Luini in Milan, 1490-1530” (M.Cole)
Zhu, Cathy M., "Born in a Golden Light: Images of Omens and Imperial Ambition in the Southern Song Dynasty" (R. Harrist)
Clemens, Olivia, "Forming 'Islamic Art' in the United States: Collecting and Exhibiting in the American Context, c. 1880-1940" (A. Shalem)
Kuruvilla, Tara, "Disjecta Membra: The Fragmentation of the India Museum and the Colonial Construction of Knowledge over the Long Nineteenth Century" (V. Dehejia)
Merkin, Sophia, "Historic Objects and Contemporary Display: the Past, Present, and Future Lives of Robert Louis Stevenson's Polynesian Barkcloths" (Z. Strother)
Hutcheson, Rachel, “Color Photography, 1890-1920: Technology, Gender, Colonialism” (N. Elcott)
Oh, Sehyun, "The Land Surveyors from the Outside: Documentation of Immigrants in an American Northwest Environment by Kyō Koike and Iwao Matsushita, c. 1920-1940" (J. Reynolds)
Ratch, Corey, “Rendering Bodies: The Image of the Abattoir in Modern Photography and Film” (E. Hutchinson)
Engler, Rachel Julia, "Televangelical Space, 1955–1985" (B. Bergdoll)
Sánchez González, Julián, "Lucerna Extincta: Notes on an Interspiritual History of Art in the Americas and the Caribbean, 1970s - 1980s" (K. Jones)
Woolley, Heather, "Miraculous Technologies: The Supernatural in Modern Image Making, 1800-1900" (J. Crary)
Barnard, Bailey, "Royal Posturing: Staging the Hellenistic Ruler in Portraits and in Person" (I. Mylonopoulos)
Ekserdjian, Alexander, "Immortal Bodies: The Sculptural Representation of Mortals and Gods in the Sanctuaries of Central Italy" (F. de Angelis)
Fiske, Courtney, "Rethinking Post-Minimalism: Gordon Matta-Clark and the Cut c. 1970" (B. Joseph)
Gorant, Charlotte, “Reliefs from the Bhārhut stūpa: Re-evaluating early Buddhist narrative art (ca. 200 B.C.E.-100 C.E.)” (V. Dehejia)
Levine, Adam Harris, "Divine Gifts: Relics and Reliquaries at the Court of Charles V” (H. Klein)
Ramachandran, Kalyani Madhura, “The Deccan Idiom of Buddhist Art in South Asia (1st - 4th century CE)” (V. Dehejia)
Superfine, Molly, "Radical Touch: Performative Sculpture and Assemblage in the 1970s" (K. Jones)
Landsman, Rozemarijn, "Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712): Art, Technology, and the City” (D. Freedberg)
Seo, Yeongik, "Kano Sanraku (1559-1635) and New Iconography for Early Modern Kyoto" (M. McKelway)
Zinner, Valerie, "Sumiyoshi Gukei and Early Modern Yamato-e" (M. McKelway)
Agarwala, Seher, "Strategies of Presenting Text and Illustrations: Turning the Pages of a Sixteenth Century Book of Wisdom" (V. Dehejia)
Jiang, Angel, “Plateresque Fantasies: Architecture and Ornament in Renaissance Spain” (M. Waters)
Levine, Adam Harris, "Divine Gifts: Relics and Reliquaries at the Court of Charles V” (H. Klein)
Mayer, Mateusz, "Albrecht Dürer: The Portraitist" (D. Bodart)
Takaes, Ianick, “Renaissance Heaven — The Empyrean in the Art of the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italian Peninsula” (M. Cole)
Crockett, Vivian, "'The Skin of All': The Racial Politics of an Anthropophagic Return in Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape" (K. Jones)
Agarwala, Seher, "Strategies of Presenting Text and Illustrations: Turning the Pages of a Sixteenth Century Book of Wisdom" (V. Dehejia)
Gorant, Charlotte, “Reliefs from the Bhārhut stūpa: Re-evaluating early Buddhist narrative art (ca. 200 B.C.E.-100 C.E.)” (V. Dehejia)
Johal, Rattanamol Singh, "Forms of despair: Postmodern art in metropolitan India" (A. Alberro)
Kuruvilla, Tara, "Disjecta Membra: The Dispersal and Afterlife of the India Museum (1801-1879)" (V. Dehejia)
Ramachandran, Kalyani Madhura, “The Deccan Idiom of Buddhist Art in South Asia (1st - 4th century CE)” (V. Dehejia)
Jiang, Angel, “Plateresque Fantasies: Architecture and Ornament in Renaissance Spain” (M. Waters)
Mellon, Diana, “Bathing in the Renaissance: Bodies & Landscape in the Campi Flegrei” (M. Cole and D. Freedberg)
Miller, Caitlin, “Leonardeschi Reconsidered: Giovanni Boltraffio, Andrea Solario, and Bernardino Luini in Milan, 1490-1530” (M.Cole)
Nisse, Cleo, "Unraveling Canvas: Textile Supports and Venetian Painting from Bellini to Tintoretto" (D. Bodart)
Tamur, Erhan, “Site-worlds: An Account of Material Lives from Tello (ancient Girsu)” (Z. Bahrani)
Woldman, Joseph, “Look at Me: Faces and Gazes in Sixth - Fifth Century Etruria” (F. de Angelis)
Crockett, Vivian, "'The Skin of All': The Racial Politics of an Anthropophagic Return in Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape" (K. Jones)
Croggon, Nicholas, "Reconstructing the Utopian Moment: Experimental Video Practices in the 1970s" (B. Joseph)
Johal, Rattanamol Singh, "Forms of despair: Postmodern art in metropolitan India" (A. Alberro)
Kuromiya, Naomi,"Finding the Past in the Future: Tracing 'the Integrated Artwork' in Modern Japan" (J. Reynolds)
Marshall, Piper, "Who Speaks: Ericka Beckman's New Talkies" (B. Joseph)
Ochmanek, Annie, “Conceptualism and the Connexionist World, 1969-1971” (B. Joseph)
Onabanjo, Oluremi, “Agudas as Afro-Brazilians: Imaging an Atlantic Community Between São Salvador and Lagos” (Z. Strother)
Ratch, Corey, “Rendering Bodies: The Image of the Abattoir in Modern Photography and Film” (E. Hutchinson)
Sánchez González, Julián, "Lucerna Extincta: Notes on an Interspiritual History of Art in the Americas and the Caribbean, 1970s - 1980s" (K. Jones)
Superfine, Molly, "Radical Touch: Performative Sculpture and Assemblage in the 1970s" (K. Jones)
Wang, Y. L. Lucy, “Contagious places, curative spaces: Disease in the making of modern Chinese architecture, 1894-1949” (B. Bergdoll)
Zivkovic, Alex, "Ambient Empire: Ecologies, Colonies, and Dreamworlds in Modern Paris, 1860-1940" (N. Elcott)
Kite, Whitney, "The Lay of the Land: Armenian Monasteries in their Local Landscapes" (H. Klein)