NAME | ADVISOR | DISSERTATION TITLE | PHD DATE |
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Marisol Villela Balderrama | Josten | José Venturelli’s Revolutionary Art: Murals and Prints in Chile, China, East Germany, and Cuba, 1938–1964 | 4/2024 |
| Paula Kupfer | Josten | Marc Ferrez’s Landscapes of Intervention: Photography, Ecology, and Enslavement in Imperial Brazil | 4/2024
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Jacob Eisensmith | Nygren | Anxieties and Influences: Italian Cultural Entanglements with the Ottoman Empire, 1400 - 1600 | 3/2024 |
Emily Mazzola | Savage | Identities on Display In the Smithsonian's First Ladies Hall | 4/2023 |
Emily Finkelstein | McCloskey | Beyond the Wall: Post-Socialist Museums in the Former German Democratic Republic | 4/2023 |
Sarah Reiff Connell | Nygren | Modeling the Miraculous: Tracing the Agency of Marian Cults in the Germanic South, 1400-1600 | 6/2022 |
Krystie Stricklin | Savage | Grave Visions: Photography, Violence, and Death in the American Empire, 1898 – 1913 | 4/2022 |
Ellen Larson | Gao | On Time: Contemporary Video Art from China | 3/2022 |
Jacqueline Marie Lombard | Fozi | Race and the Romanesque: Visualizing Blackness Between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, 1000-1250 | 3/2022 |
Lily Brewer | Ellenbogen | Nuclear Citizenship: Mary Kavanagh and Photography as Civil Resistance | 3/2022 |
Andrea Kibler Maxwell | Nygren | Painting and Persecution: Anti-Jewish and Anti-Protestant Visual Rhetoric in Northern Italy | 2/2022 |
Marina Tyquiengco | Smith | What Native Looks Like Now: Embodiment in Contemporary Indigenous Art, 1992–Present | 8/2021 |
Clarisse Fava-Piz | Savage | Sculpting Beyond Borders: Local Identity and Transnational Mobility in the Age of Rodin | 6/2021 |
Nicole Coffineau | Ellenbogen | Binding Identities: Photograph Albums and Italian Nationalism, 1857-67 | 5/2021 |
Alan London | Savage | "My Own Place, May Own Name" Figuration, Abstraction and the Tragic in the Art of Stephen Greene | 3/2021 |
Paulina Pardo Gaviria | Josten | Letícia Parente: Embodying New Media Art Strategies in 1970s Brazil | 7/2020 |
Meredith North
| McCloskey | Cybernetic Impulses and Serial Systems: The Art of Peter Roehr in Frankfurt am Main | 7/2020 |
Isaac King | Savage | The One and the Many: Authenticity and Multiplicity in the Posthumous Lives of George Washington's Portraits | 4/2020 |
Kylie Seltzer | Armstrong | Housing Identities: Displaying Race and Environment in Paris, 1870-1892 | 4/2020 |
Carolyn Wargula | Gerhart | Embodying the Buddha: The Presence of Women in Japanese Buddhist Hair Embroideries, 1200-1700 | 4/2020 |
Maria Castro | Josten | Between São Paulo and Paris: Tarsila do Amaral and the Intersecting Identities of Antropofagia | 4/2020 |
Allison McCann | Fozi | Women's Books? Gendered Piety and Patronage in Late Medieval Bohemian Illuminated Codices | 12/2019 |
Ben Ogrodnik | Smith | Steel City Cinema: Independent and Experimental Filmmaking in the Rust Belt | 12/2019 |
Annika Johnson | Savage | Agency at the Confluence of Dakhóta and Euro-American Art, 1835-1912 | 4/2019 |
Nicole Scalissi | Smith | Something to See Here: Staged Violence in Contemporary Art | 4/2019 |
Jennifer Donnelly | Armstrong | The Physiognomy of a Collection: Architectural Legibility and Historical Expression at the Musée des monuments français, 1795-1816 | 8/2018 |
Colleen O'Reilly | Ellenbogen | Visual Pedagogy in Cold War America: Berenice Abbott, Will Burtin, and the International Visual Literacy Association | 8/2018 |
Madeline Eschenburg | Gao | Migrating Subjects: The Problem of the "Peasant" in Contemporary Chinese Art | 4/2018 |
Jung Hui Kim | Gerhart | Religion, Politics, and Gender: Childbirth Images in Edo Japan | 4/2018 |
Elizabeth Morrissey | Gerhart | Memorializing Imperial Power through Ritual in the Illustrated Legends of Ishiyama-dera Handscroll | 4/2018 |
Lihui Dong | Gao | The Way to be Modern: Empress Dowager Cixi’s portraits of the Late Qing Dynasty | 8/2017 |
Jungeun Lee | Gerhart | Displaying Authority: Ashikaga Formal Display in the Muromachi Period | 4/2017 |
Elizabeth Self | Gerhart | Art, Architecture, and the Asai Sisters | 4/2017 |
Henry Skerritt | Smith | When Time’s Arrows Collide: Historical Critique in Indigenous Contemporary Art | 8/2017 |
Heidi Cook | McCloskey | Picturing Peasant: Maksimilijan Vanka’s Folkloric Paintings and the “Croatian Question” from Habsburg | 12/2016 |
Amy Cymbala | Harris and Armstrong | ‘Dearest Wife, Most Famous Woman:’ Gender, Commemoration, and Women’s Funerary Monuments in Rome, 1550-1750 | 8/2016 |
Jessica Gogan | Smith | Curating Publics in Brazil: Experiment, Construct, Care | 4/2016 |
Courtney Long | Armstrong | Re-Categorizing Great Britain's Medieval Architecture: A Lesson in Nineteenth-Century Visual Taxonomy | 4/2016 |
Rachel Miller | Harris and Savage | Patron Saint of a World in Crisis: Early Modern Representations of St. Francis Xavier in Europe and Asia | 4/2016 |
Sara Sumpter | Gerhart | The Socio-Political Functions of Japanese ‘Vengeful Spirit’ Handscrolls, 1150-1230 | 4/2016 |
Nadav Hochman | Smith | The Social Media Image: Modes of Visual Ordering on Social Media | 8/2015 |
Alexandra Oliver † | Ellenbogen | Critical Realism in Contemporary Photography | 4/2014 |
James Jewitt | Harris | The Evolution of Landscape in Venetian Painting, 1475-1525 | 4/2014 |
Yuki Morishima | Gerhart | Political and Ritual Usages of Portraits of Japanese Emperors in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | 12/2013 |
Saskia Beranek | Armstrong and Harris | Power of the Portrait: Production, Consumption and Display of Portraits of Amalia van Solms in the Dutch Republic | 4/2013 |
Izabel Galliera | Smith | Reclaiming Public Life, Building Public Spheres: Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Institutions in post-1989 Europe | 4/2013 |
Jiayao Han | Linduff | Creating Visual Emblems for Eastern Zhou Militarized Frontier Societies (771-221 BCE) | 4/2013 |
Donald Simpson | Armstrong and Savage | Civic Center and Cultural Center: The Grouping of Public Buildings in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Detroit and the Emergence of the City Monumental in the Modern Metropolis | 4/2013 |
Sarah Bromberg | Stones | The Context and Reception History of the Illuminations in Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla litteralis super totam bibliam: Fifteenth-Century Case Studies | 12/2012 |
Cristina Albu | Smith | Mirror Affect: Interpersonal Spectatorship in Installation Art since the 1960s | 4/2012 |
Robert Bailey | Smith | Art & Language and the Politics of Art Worlds, 1969-1977 | 4/2012 |
Brianne Cohen | Smith | Contested Collectivities: Europe Reimagined by Contemporary Artists | 4/2012 |
Julia Finch | Stones | Bibles en images: Visual Narrative and Translation in New York Public Library Spencer Collection ms. 22 and Related Manuscripts | 12/2011 |
Rebekah Perry | Stones | Sacred Image, Civic Spectacle, and Ritual Space: Tivoli's Inchinata Procession and Icons in Urban Liturgical Theater in Late Medieval Italy | 12/2011 |
Maria D'Anniballe Williams | McCloskey and Savage | Urban Space in Fascist Verona: Contested Grounds for Mass Spectacle, Tourism, and the Architectural Past | 12/2010 |
Shalmit Bejarano | Gerhart | Picturing Rice Agriculture and Silk Production: Appropiation and Ideology in Early Modern Japanese Painting | 8/2010 |
Kathy Johnston-Keane | Harris | Caravaggio’s Drama: Art, Theater, and Literature during Italy’s ‘Spanish Age’ | 4/2010 |
Annie Krieg | McCloskey | The Walls of the Confessions: Neo-Romanesque Architecture, Nationalism, and Religious Identity in the Kaiserreich | 4/2010 |
Leslie Wallace | Linduff | Chasing the Beyond: Depictions of Hunting in Eastern Han Dynasty Tomb Reliefs (25-220 CE) from Shaanxi and Shanxi | 4/2010 |
Karen Webb | Stones | Medieval Manuscripts, Architectural Structures, and their Relationships | 4/2010 |
Jui-Man Wu | Linduff | Mortuary Art in the Northern Zhou China (557-581 CE): Visualization of Class, Role, and Cultural Identity | 4/2010 |
Travis Nygard | Savage | Seeds of Agribusiness: Grant Wood and the Visual Culture of Grain Farming 1862-1957 | 12/2009 |
Sheri Lullo | Linduff | Toiletry Case Sets Across Life and Death in Early China (5th c. BCE-3rd c. CE) | 12/2009 |
Miguel Rojas-Sotelo | Smith | Cultural Maps, Networks, and Flows: The History and Impact of the Havana Bienniale 1984 to the Present | 4/2009 |
Cornelie Piok Zanon | Weis | The Sanctuary of Demeter at Pergamon: Architecture and Dynasty in the Early Attalid Capital | 4/2009 |
Kristen Harkness | McCloskey | "The Phantom of Inspiration: Elena Polenova, Mariia Iakunchikova and the Emergence of Modern Art in Russia" | 4/2009 |
