Senior Thesis in Art History

Yadira Castillo, “Art Agency and the Law” (Advisor: Lisa Trever)

Sara Coffield, “A Ghost Light: The Bibienas and Scenography on Paper” (Advisor: Eleonora Pistis)

Ethan Furdak, “The Renaissance Rotunda” (Advisor: Michael J. Waters)

Julian Hernandez, “Beyond the Categories: Rethinking Tlaltecuhtli and the Fluidity of Mexica (Aztec) Divinity” (Advisor: Lisa Trever)

Gauri Kasarla, “Visualizing Sati in Ancient India” (Advisor: Subhashini Kaligotla)

Chimene Keys, “Between Migration and Contact in Sino-African Art” (Advisor: Lisa Trever)

Erica Kim, “The ‘Double-colonized’ Women: Power and Politics in the Representation of Korean Women, 1910–1945” (Advisor: Jonathan Reynolds)

Eva Moscoso, “Si(g)ns of the Times: Decoding Cathar presence in the Bibles moralisées” (Advisor: Gregory Bryda)

Kyle Murray, “Dancing with Monsters: A Requiem for AIDS in the Art of Keith Haring” (Advisor: Julia Bryan-Wilson)

Benedict Shakespeare, “Udeido Collective: The Reflexive Reconstruction of West Papuan Identity” (Advisor: Dorota Biczel)

Sylvi Stein, “Reshaping the Landscape: Earthworks’ Legal Legitimacy” (Advisor: Alexander Alberro)

Iker Veiga, “Relational Queerness: Gay Identity and Sociality in David Wojnarowicz’s Art” (Advisor: Branden W. Joseph)

Dominic Wiharso, “The Queer Exotic: Performing the Self in Ashley Bickerton’s Trans-Pacific Works, 1993–2022” (Advisor: Dorota Biczel)

Aleksandr Kurganskii, "Hadrian's Villa: Looking for Staff and Stuff in the Cento Camerelle" (Advisor: Francesco de Angelis)

Jenny Wang, "SEATING BEYOND SEATING: Twentieth-Century American Office Chairs" (Advisor: Zeynep Çelik Alexander)

Jacqueline Yu, "The Nationalist Museum of Western Art: Exhibitions of Japonisme, Nihonjinron, and Cool Japan" (Advisor: Jonathan Reynolds)

Emanuel Arias-Goetzke, “Anatomy, Gender, and Gestures in Leonardo da Vinci's Hands” (Advisor: Diane Bodart)

Lisa Yuxin Chen, “Through the Looking-Glass: Exhibiting the Arts of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368) in the United States” (Advisor: Morris Rossabi)

Qingyuan Deng, “In the Ruins of Empire: Lu Yang between Speculative Futures and Apocalyptic Pasts” (Advisor: John Rajchman)

Olivia Doyle, “The Science of Impressionism: Claude Monet, the Beholder’s Share, and the Paradox of Perception” (Advisor: Jonathan Crary)

Arrietty Ji, “Arata Isozaki’s Tsukuba Center Building: Architecture as Cultural and Political Metaphors” (Advisor: Jonathan Reynolds)

Lilly Jean Cao, “The Space that Mural Makes: Julie Mehretu and Goldman Sachs” (Advisor: Rosalyn Deutsche)

Kaleigh McCormick, “The Construction of Femininity and Power in Barcelona: Bernat Martorell’s Altarpiece of Saint Eulalia and the Reign of Maria of Castile” (Advisor: Gregory Bryda)

Ricardo Mercado, “The Landscapes of José María Velasco and the Construction of the Mexican Nation” (Advisor: Meredith Gamer)

Noah Seeman, “The Evil of Banality: Gerhard Richter’s Atlas” (Advisor: Rosalyn Deutsche)

Alexandra Cooper, “Damien Hirst: Collecting and Display in the Age of Social Media” (Advisor: Anne Higonnet)

Bryn Evans, “GROUNDED IN OUR OWN IMAGE: Beverly Buchanan’s Marsh Ruins (1981) as material bodies in motion” (Advisor: Mabel Wilson)

Mary Fellios, “In the Beginning of Dreaming: Fusing Carolee Schneemann’s Ethics and Aesthetics” (Advisor: Rosalyn Deutsche)

Alex Foo, “The Syntheses of Alessandro Vittoria: Sculptural Ambition in Renaissance Venice” (Advisor: Diane Bodart)

Emma Gould, “The Right to Privacy: Spatial and Socially Constructed Hierarchies on Three American Plantations” (Advisor: Zeynep Celik Alexander)

Kennedy Roese, “Brendan Fernandes and the Question of Performance” (Advisor: John Rajchman)

Thomas Saenz, “From Synthesis to Nepantla: Judy Baca and Urban Los Angeles, 1970-2019” (Advisor: Lisa Trever)

Claire Wilson, “Women at Work: The Construction of Feminine Space in Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the Queen (Advisor: Gregory Bryda)

Octavia Young, “Beyond Burne-Jones: Reassembling the Collective in the Decorative Religious Works of Morris & Co.” (Advisor: Meredith Gamer)

Clara Maria Apostolatos, “Remains: The Art of Teresa Margolles” (Advisor: Rosalyn Deutsche)

Emma Bruckner, “Solitude and Surroundings, The Belfiore Studiolo and Cultural Exchange in Quattrocento Ferrara” (Advisor: Diane Bodart)

Haena Chu, “Lee Bul’s Architectural Installations: How to Survive Modern History in Korea” (Advisor: Jonathan Reynolds)

Rosie Hausmann, “Classicizing Gothic: The Architectural Fusion of Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais” (Advisor: Michael Waters)

Jung Kim, “Anselm Kiefer’s Occupations: A Semantic Answer to the Problem of Post-Holocaust Representation” (Advisor: Rosalyn Deutsche)

Trinity Lester, “Reconsidering The Grid through the work of Hilma af Klint” (Advisor: Branden Joseph)

Owen Monroe, “Gospel and Gossip: Francis Frith’s Photography Books of the Rhine and Hastings” (Advisor: Meredith Gamer)

Mia Nicenko, “Interaction, Instruction, and “Influence” in the Works of Catharina and Jan van Hemessen (Advisor: Michael Cole)

Natasha Coleman, “Between the Living and the Dead: Wooden Coffins and Physical, Ritual, and Pictorial Boundaries in Han Chamber Tombs” (Advisor: Jue Guo)

Alexandra Germer, “(German) Expressionism: Emil Nolde’s Paintings and the Revision of German Identity” (Advisor: Noam Elcott)

Clara He, “Building an Exotic Home: Architects’ Intervention in Rural Reconstruction in Contemporary China” (Advisor: Mary McLeod)

Sofia Hernandez, “Rendering Multimedia Architecture: Francesco Panini’s Colored Prints of the Farnese Gallery in Rome” (Advisor: Eleonora Pistis)

Emerson Jones, “Myth and Modernity: The Royal Liver Building and the Making of Edwardian Liverpool” (Advisor: Barry Bergdoll)

Nicole-Ann Lobo, “The ‘Oriental’ Christ: Religion and Alterity in the Art of F. N. Souza (1949-1967)” (Advisor: Vidya Dehejia)

Aaron Smithson, “‘Art on the Urban Green’: Sculpture Parks and Redevelopment in the Age of Neoliberalism” (Advisor: Rosalyn Deutsche)

Myles Zhang, “The Church of St. Denis and Gothic Architecture: A Case Study” (Advisor: Stephen Murray)

Irene Anastazievsky, “The Eumachia Building: Intersections of Gender and Architecture in the Forum of Pompeii” (Advisor: Francesco de Angelis)

Aimée Auguin, “Drawing with Light: Gjon Mili’s Photography of Picasso’s Light Drawings and the Distillation of Creation within the Studio” (Advisor: Anne Higonnet)  

Adam J. Elkhadem, “Pathetic and Popular: How Fourth-Century Greece Belonged to the Maenad” (Advisor: Francesco de Angelis)

Yuanya Feng, “Transcending the Temporal Heterotopia in Realm of Reverberations: Chen Chieh-jen’s Documentary Fiction” (Advisor: Christopher Phillips)

Jonah Goldman Kay, “Specters of the South: Populating Sally Mann’s Landscapes Through Memory, History and Time” (Advisor: Jonathan Crary)

Sam Lim-Kimberg, “Between Lupe and Che: José Rodríguez-Soltero and New York Underground Film” (Advisor: Branden Joseph)

Diana Winfield Luber, “Power and Magic: On the Performative and Talismanic Properties of Monumental Mudejar in Medieval Zaragoza” (Advisor: Avinoam Shalem)

Amber Noé, “Love to Willem de Kooning’s Prints of 1971: Lines To and From Japan” (Advisor: Michael Golston)

Alicia Schleifman, “Something Really Messy: Ed Ruscha’s Avant-Garde Foundations, 1974-1976” (Advisor: Branden Joseph)

Alexandra Solovyev, “A Suprematist Fairy Tale: Text, Image, and the Infantilist Aesthetic in the Post-Revolutionary Children’s Books of El Lissitzky and Vladimir Lebedev” (Advisor: John Rajchman)

Scott Sonnenberg, “The Way Things Are, or a Theory of Decorative Arts in the Modern Museum” (Advisor: Anne Higonnet)

Sam Velasquez, “El Abrazo Tierno: The Politicized Motherhood in the Art of Oswaldo Guayasamin” (Advisor: Kellie Jones)

Canada Austin Choate, "It's Only Music, John: Dan Graham's Rock Criticism, 1968-88" (Advisor: Branden Joseph)

Benjamin Philip Davidoff, "The Ancient Synagogue at Sardis: Religious Pluralism in the Late Roman Empire" (Advisor: Ioannis Mylonopoulos)

Megan Anne Kincaid, “Motherwell’s Modernism: The Universal Language of Automatic Drawings” (Advisor: John Rajchman)

Geon Woo Lee, “Tradition Redux: Architecture of Kim Swoo Geun” (Advisor: Jonathan Reynolds)

Isabella Michelle Sterman Rosner, “The Neatest Worker of the Party”: Text, Stitching, and Sisterhood in Charlotte Brontë and Jane Austen’s Needlework” (Advisor: Anne Higonnet)

Amanda Brooks-Kelly Weiss, "Italian Baroque Outsiders: Guercino and his Old Testament Subjects" (Advisor: Michael Cole)

Samantha R. Williger, “Performing Anarchy: Christopher D’Arcangelo’s Rosa Esman Gallery Invitational Action—Look Out for what you Look At” (Advisor: John Miller)

Megan Elizabeth Baker, "Peinte par elle-même: The Digital Reassertion of Female Artistic Style in Eighteenth-Century France" (Advisor: Anne Higonnet)

Eyvana Maria Bengochea, "From Stalin to the Surrealists: Connecting Exhibition Practice Between the Wars in France and Germany" (Advisor: John Rajchman)

Sean Stephen Brian Delanty, "On UFO Photography" (Advisor: Branden Joseph)

Jacob Ian Gagne, "Meat Monumentalized: The Slaughterhouses of Francisco Salamone" (Advisor: Barry Bergdoll)

Eleanor Crimmins Goerss, "Fragmented Temple & Maiden Intact: The Art of Sanctuary and Sermon Book in the Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam Begijnhof" (Advisor: Diane Bodart)

Kolleen Alexandra Ku, "Figuring Sensation: Kazimir Malevich's Late Figurative Paintings (1926-1935)" (Advisor: John Rajchman)

Aidan Timothy Mehigan, "Toward a Benedictine Architecture: The Campus of Portsmouth Abbey, 1952-present" (Advisor: Barry Bergdoll) 

Kady Min Pu, "Taming the Bull: Bull-Leaping in the Ancient Mediterranean" (Advisor: Ioannis Mylonopolos)

Sofia Silva, "Guillermo Kuitca's Produced Space in the Age of Globalization" (Advisor: Kellie Jones)

Sarah Bell, "The History of Preservation as a History Worth Preserving: William Sumner Appleton and His Work at Jackson House" (Advisor: Barry Bergdoll)

Martha Scott Burton, "To Suffer a Sea-Change: The Afro-Future Female and the Aquatic in Ellen Gallagher's Watery Ecstatic" (Advisor: Kellie Jones)

Andrew Demas, "Born Out of Autocracy, Forged in Democracy: the Metamorphosis of the World Trade Center and the Mediation of Economic and Public Priorities" (Advisor: Barry Bergdoll)

Alexandra Eynon, "Curious Cases: The Cabinet and the Contemporary" (Advisor: Keith Moxey)

Alexander Hyman, "Constructed Regionalism: Architectural Eclecticism in Jewish and Arab Homes in Mandatory Palestine" (Advisor: Jonathan Reynolds)

Julia Jarrett, "Reflections on the Polish Avant-Garde: Wladyslaw Strzeminski and the Theory of Unism" (Advisor: Noam Elcott)

Angel Jiang, "Storied Cycles: Reading the Boss Sculpture of Norwich Cathedral" (Advisor: Stephen Murray)

Elizabeth Lightfoot, "Form Follows Family: The Impact of Edith Elmer Wood on Modernism, Feminism, and New Deal Housing Reform" (Advisor: Mary McLeod)

Daniel Merritt, "Build the Bridge: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and the Development of Memory, Recognition, and Contemporaneity" (Advisor: Kellie Jones)

Zachary Small, "Sojourning Senescence: John Baldessari and his Late Works" (Advisor: Branden Joseph)

Ione Wang, "Intimate Matters: Giorgio Morandi's Still Lifes, The Museum of Innocence, and Waste Not" (Advisor: John Rajchman)

Roko Rumora, "The Danger of Seeing Double(s): Same-Subject Pendant Statues in Roman Visual Culture" (Advisor: Francesco de Angelis)

Rebecca Schechter Fattell, "Inhaling Viewers, Exhaling Music: The Visualization of Sound in Johannes Vermeer's Oeuvre (Advisor: Keith Moxey)

Shirlynn Sham, "A Shocking Split: Intrusions of the Phantasmagoric into the Embodied Perceptual Model" (Advisor: Jonathan Crary)