| CJ Dawson | McCloskey | The Past, Present, and Future of the Teenie Harris Archive | 2022 |
| Ellie Downs | D'Anniballe | Repatriation as Resistance: The Evolving Dialogue of Native American Artifact Repatriation | 2022 |
| Abreihona Lenihan | Smith | ABC: The Education of Raymond Saunders | 2022 |
| Izumi Miyazaki | Bender | Mother Beheading Japanese Patriarchy: Reimagining Artemisia | 2022 |
| Brianna Stellini | Morton | Fayum Mummy Portraits: Object Biography and Museum Display | 2022 |
| Maja Lynn | Bender | The Politics of Possession: Herero Spiritual Epistemologies, Repatriation of Remains, and the Memorialization of the 1904-1908 Genocide | 2022 |
| Louisa Post-Zwicker | Nygren | Sculpting Identity: Power and Representation in Italian Baroque Portraiture | 2021 |
| Joseph Scapellato | Weaver | Gazing on the Plague: The Curative Power of Early Modern European Painting | 2021 |
| Jada Crittendon | Hosseini | From Gert to Royal Tent | 2021 |
| Maria Doku | Armstrong | Modular Housing: Efficiency and Sustainability for the 21st Century | 2021 |
| Delia Franklin | Fozi | The Book of Kells: How a Medieval Manuscript Became a Modern Representation of Irishness | 2021 |
| Roy Gao | Ellenbogen | History Lost and Found: Performative Re-enactments and Simulation in 'The Act of Killing' | 2021 |
| Joshua Jordan | Morton | Roots of the Affordable Housing Crisis: How 20th-Century Racially Motivated Housing Policies Continue to Impact Today's Housing Market | 2021 |
| Morgan Powell | Ellenbogen | Subject to Change: Greer Lankton and Memory Practices | 2021 |
| Annie Abernathy | Taylor | From the Mixed-Up Files of E. L. Konigsburg: Mysteries of Value in the Museum | 2021 |
| Angelina Veneziano | Nygren | A Historical Comparison of the Clapp Collection and the Albertina Facsimile | 2020 |
| Anna Kate Payha | Armstrong | Resin Tables and Digital Fabrication: Defining the Furniture of the 21st Century | 2020 |
| Wanyan Ma | McCoy | Art of the Cadaver: A Cross-Cultural Comprehension | 2020 |
| Georgina Laube | Ellenbogen | Welt im Film, der Augenzeuge, und Deutsche Demokratische Republik: The Power of Propaganda in Germany's Post-World War II Climate | 2020 |
| Claudia Haines | Taylor | Do Touch: Sculpture as a Means for Accessibility in Art Museums | 2020 |
| Gillian Carver | Fozi | Reality v. History: An Introspective on American History through Black Artists Kehinde Wiley and Kara Walker | 2020 |
| Molly Wight | Taylor | Childe Hassan, American Japonist | 2019 |
| Emma Vescio | McCloskey | A House, But Not Here: On Adam Milner | 2019 |
| Gabriela Schunn | Ellenbogen | Affective Solidarity: Exploring Trauma Art and Transformation | 2019 |
| Rebecca Moser | Taylor | Queer Entomologist: Andrey Avinoff's Butterflies | 2019 |
| Elena Marzina | Morton | Child's Play | 2019 |
| Tom Lucy | Armstrong | Allegheny Center: Method and Mentality in Neighborhood Revitalization | 2019 |
| Rose Hawk | Taylor | John Kane at Kennywood | 2019 |
| Reagan Harper | Morton | Preservation of the Everyday | 2019 |
| Emily Anne Ebersol | Armstrong | Design that Empowers: The Malawi Scholl Project | 2019 |
| Heather Alvarado | Savage | Saamis: Perspectives Past and Present | 2019 |
| Amanda Bartko | Taylor | Instananeous Ingenuity: Contemporary Artists and their use of Instagram | 2018 |
| Imani Williford, | Taylor | The Art and Politics of Faith Ringgold's Children's Books | 2018 |
| Emily Kathryn Campbell | McCloskey | Kameradschaft: Sculpture and the Cultural Politics of the Nazu Regime | 2018 |
| Ilana Curtis | Rajagopalan | Model Affordability: Mass Housing Solutions from Berlin to the Bronx | 2018 |
| Esra Daghestani | Rajagopalan | Designing for Disaster: Student Design Competition Entries in Response to Natural Disasters | 2018 |
| Caroline Fazzini | Josten | Bookworks as Networks: Feminist Artists' Book Projects of the 1980s-90s | 2018 |
| Rebecca Lee Koshner | Rajagopalan | Eyes on the Strip: Past, Present, and Future of Pittsburgh's Strip District | 2018 |
| Mairin Plant | McCloskey | St. George Rides Again: The Russian Nationality Room | 2018 |
| Ahona Raka Sarkar | Self | How the Past Persists in Period Rooms: An Examination of the Sun Ka Raku Teahouse | 2018 |
| Abigail Sites | Armstrong and McCloskey | Henry Clay Frick's Mansions: From Private to Public | 2018 |
| Annika Napier-Smith | McCloskey | Expressing Identity through Art: Reaching Pittsburgh's Teens Experiencing Homelessness | 2018 |
| Sonnie Solomon | Ellenbogen | Inside/Out: Reconsidering the Photographic Binary with LaToya Ruby Frazer's 'The Nation of Family' | 2017 |
| Max Stefan Poost | Armstrong | The Nine Mile Run Watershed: Tracing the Elements of Ecological Design | 2017 |
| Abigail Hope Meloy | Nygren | Modalities of Visualizing the Divine: Image and Word in Lorenzo Lotto's Trescore Frescoes, 'Trinty' and 'Madonna of the Rosary' | 2017 |
| Angelica Marks | Josten | + 41 Anti-Monument: A Critical Call to Reform Through Popular Will | 2017 |
| Marie Manske | Bender and Josten | Nazi Rallies at Luna Park Stadium: Assessing the Visual Evidence | 2017 |
| Katherine Lipinski | Josten | From Coca Plant to Cocaine: Metamorphosis in 'Helio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium' | 2017 |
| Lin Hou | Rajagopalan | The Triangle of Sustainability: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Sustainable Architecture in Beijing and Pittsburgh | 2017 |
| Elizabeth Hill | Ellenbogen | Child Labor Signified: Utility and Motion in Gustave Courbet's the Stonebreakers | 2017 |
| Mariah Flanagan | Peters | How We View Egypt: The Importance of Intertemporality in Museum Displays | 2017 |
| Lydia Andeskie | Bender | Rhetoric and Spectacle: What Historical Instances of Iconoclasm Can Tell Us About the Islamic State | 2017 |
| Blair Marie Wedescheide | Bender | The World Trade Center Site: A Spectrum of Function and Emotion | 2016 |
| Shengyu Wang | Smith | Should Art Labor Be Free? | 2016 |
| Grace Elizabeth Strong | Nygren | Carlo Crivelli Matters: A View of the Renaissance from the 'Periphery' | 2016 |
| Melissa Quarto | Josten | Performing Incanismo: Cultural Tourism at Machu Picchu, Peru | 2016 |
| Emily Jane Mirales | Weis | Building a 'City of Reference': The United States Botanic Garden and Washington D.C. | 2016 |
| Summer Liu | Rajagopalan | The Aesthetics and Architecture of Gentrification through a Case Study of Shoreditch, London | 2016 |
| Brianna Marie Humbert | Bender | The Feminist Secretary: Activism, Typewriting, and the Gendering of Labor in the Work of Sheryl Oring | 2016 |
| Meghan Ann Hipple | Och | Showing and Exposing: Re/encountering the Environment though American Painting, Photography and Television | 2016 |
| Michael Vincent Guttilla | Armstrong | Big Ideals/BIG Ideas: The Emerging Architectural Epoch as Seen in the Hill | 2016 |
| Nikita Marie Costantini | McCloskey | Upside-Down in London: George Baselitz and His Entrance into the International Art Scene | 2016 |
| Paige Anderson | Rajagopalan | The Design of Dissent: Protest and Urban Space in Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement | 2016 |
| Daniel Augenbraun | Bender | Learning Through Teaching: Answering the Question of Why Art History Matters | 2015 |
| Liyi Chen | Fozi and Linduff | Reinforcing Femininity: Exhibiting the Empress Dowager and Marie Antoinette in the 21st Century | 2015 |
| Alice Gallagher | Savage | Creation and Contemplation: The Flight 93 Memorial and The National September 11 Museum | 2015 |
| Sarah Jane Horton | Gao | Methodical Suffering: Chinese Buddhism as a Tool in Zhang Huan's Early Performance Art | 2015 |
| Glace Alana Kelly | Josten | The University Studio: Oiticica, Rhodislandia, and Peripheral Strategies in Art Making” | 2015 |
| Kaley Joyce Kilpatrick | Savage | Flight 93 National Memorial, the African Burial Ground National Monument, and the Pursuit of Child-Appropriate Memorial Designs | 2015 |
| Karen Lue | Savage | The Politics of Display: Trans-national Convergence in the Chinese Nationality Room | 2015 |
| Allison Mosco | McCloskey | Religion Transformed: The Christian Roots of a Secular Russian Craft | 2015 |
| Abbey Katherine O’Brien | Josten | Radical Muralism in Three Dimensions: A Close Look at Siqueiros’ 'May Day Political Float' | 2015 |
| Matthew Sova | Fozi | Women and 'Empore': The Issue of Gendered Space in Ottonian Architecture | 2015 |
| Kirsten Armstrong | Fozi | Spirituality of Non-Sacred Space: Sanctifying a More Socialist Agenda | 2015 |
| Jonathon Thomas Weber | Savage | Faces of Empire: Social Discourse of Field Marshal, 1st Bar-on, Sir Jeffery Amherst's Portraits Created in Life | 2015 |
| Lauren Burgess | Bender | Embodiment and Decoration: Henri Matisse’s Rosary Chapel in Vence, France | 2014 |
| James DiBitetto | Savage | Curating Minimalism at the Carnegie Museum of Art | 2014 |
| Joanna Kemp | Bender | The Encounters Project: Teaching Art History Outside of the University | 2014 |
| Kelsey Kresse | Bender | Tracy Emin’s 'My Bed' as Creative Space | 2014 |
| Siqiao Lu | Savage | Antagonistic Therapy: Krzysztof Wodiczko's Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection | 2014 |
| Elizabeth Marriott | Eppiheimer | The Display of Cylinder Seals | 2014 |
| Stephanie Selya | Ellenbogen | Painting with Light: The Composite World War I Photography of Frank Hurley | 2014 |
| Elana Williams | Ellenbogen | Representing Genetic Disease in Modernity: Rick Guidotti as the Contemporary Medical Photographer | 2014 |
| Chris Hazel | Armstrong | Re-Thinking Architecture: A Call for a New Social Space | 2014 |
| Grace Meloy | Bender | Circulation, Access, and Tourist Experience: Berlin's Center and Periphery as Case Study | 2014 |
| Julia Warren | Rajagopalan | The Nature of the High Line: A Jacobsian Perspective on New York's 'Park in the Sky' | 2014 |
| Maria Castro | McCloskey | A Semana de Arte Moderna’ and the Creation of a Brazilian National Identity for Art in 1922 | 2013 |
| Kristina Harris | Bender and Langmead | Food for Thought: Rethinking the Process of Processing with Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules | 2013 |
| Kelsey Henke | Bailey | Gender, Sexuality, and Subjectivity in Hipster Visual Culture | 2013 |
| Tyler Shine | Ellenbogen | Taboo Icons: The Photography of Andres Serrano and the Visual Politics of the Body | 2013 |
| Natalie Sweet | Bailey | Pinning Up Venus: Origins of the Newbrow | 2013 |
| Lauren Bucher | Bender | Bar Architecture: Design of the Third Place | 2013 |
| Chong Hu | Linduff | The Return of Traditional Elements in Chinese Architecture during the Economic Upswing of the Early 21st Century | 2013 |
| Eric Kobal | Rajagopalan | The Spirit of a Landscape: Designing North and South Park in the Interwar Period | 2013 |
| Maeve Sattler | Armstrong | Early Twentieth-Century Social Housing Design in Vienna and London | 2013 |
| Stephanie Trum | McCloskey | Tragedy of the People': Representing Human Suffering in Moscow's Victory Park | 2012 |
| Lauren Taylor | McCloskey | Representing Africa at the Carnegie Museum of Art | 2012 |
| Allison Ross | McCloskey | Kirschner's Berlin Street Scenes: Embodying Modern Berlin | 2012 |
| Lucy Peterson | Gerhart | Flowers: Form and Function in Medieval Japanese Handscrolls | 2012 |
| Chanelle Labash | Harris | Oriental' Carpets in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings | 2012 |
| Sarah Haley | McKim | Past, Present and Future: A Study of Pittsburgh's 'Ghost' Signage | 2012 |
| Alexandra Goldstein | Armstrong | A. W. N. Pugin's Medieval Court in the Great Exhibition of 1851 | 2012 |
| Gabriella DiDonna | Ellenbogen | Reconstructing Vision: David Hockney's Photocollage | 2012 |
| Shana Cooperstein | Ellenbogen | Likeness in Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Photo Portraits | 2011 |
| Trudy Jackson | Harris | Franz Landsberger and the Myth of the ‘Jewish’ Rembrandt | 2011 |
| Jennifer Lue | Gao | Woman as City: Depictions of Women and the City Urban Project in Chinese Contemporary Art | 2011 |
| Carolyn Murin | Christian | Is Beauty Truth and Truth Beauty? Venetian Portraiture of the Sixteenth Century, Titian’s La Flora and La Bella | 2011 |
| Liesl Ostergaard | Savage | Separation Barrier Graffiti at Bethlehem: Public Art in a Contested Area | 2011 |
| Mathew Showman | Smith | Ragnar Kjartansson | 2011 |
| Marie Williams | McCloskey | Veshch'/Gegenstand/Objet: El Lissitzky and the Socialist Object in Western Europe | 2011 |
| Sherry Yadlosky | McCloskey | Representations of the New Woman in Weimar Art and Political Propaganda | 2011 |
| Hanlu Zhang | Ellenbogen | Sontag Against Sontag: Problems in Photographic Presentation | 2011 |
| Seth Bartlett | Savage | Tiber Creek: Washington D.C.'s Unrelenting Piece of History | 2010 |
| Jennifer Houseman | Bender | The Allure of the Garden Theatre: Its Existence as a Northside Institution | 2010 |
| Steven Lewis | Ellenbogen | Seeing Sound: Hans Jenny and the Cymatic Atlas | 2010 |
| Lauren Maceross | Harris | El Greco's Embedded Portraiture | 2010 |
| Patrick Mansfield | Bender and McCloskey | Progression, Stasis and Gender: The Postage Stamp in East Germany | 2010 |
| Amy Weingartner | Ellenbogen | Monstrous Monsters in Modern China | 2010 |
| Christine Carpenter | Bender | I.M. Pei's National Gallery of Art | 2009 |
| Lori Frola | Smith | Contemporary Art in Chile | 2009 |
| Ike Harijanto | Ellenbogen | Pictorial Confrontation to Science and Universal Communication | 2009 |
| Julie Hodas | McCloskey | Images of Motherhood in Weimar Germany | 2009 |
| Steven Lewis | McCloskey | Emil Nolde: Reconciling Past and Party | 2009 |
| Lauren MacLaughlin | Christian | Dante Portraiture in the Time of Duke Cosimo I de'Medici: Bronzino's Mute Poetry-Two Allegories in Context | 2009 |
| Tasha Mowery | McCloskey | Science and Art Restoration | 2009 |
| Nicole Scalissi | Smith | One Cold Hand: Relation Aesthetics in Pittsburgh | 2009 |
| Julie Steinbrink | McCloskey | Art as Therapy for WWI Artist-Veterans in Weimar Germany | 2009 |
| Michele Campbell | Christian | The Influence of Dante's Beatrice on Michelangelo's Female Figures | 2008 |
| Erin Hinson | Christian | Mantegna's visione all'antica: The St. James Frescoes, Northern Italian Antiquarianism, and the Roman Bias | 2008 |
| Cory Rice | Ellenbogen | Reflections of Rrose: Duchamp and Warhol on Gender | 2008 |
| Meaghan Colahan | Weis | Examining the Winemaking Motif on Attic Pottery and in Egyptian Tomb Paintings | 2008 |
| Hannah Kauffmann | Ellenbogen | The Decisive Moment: Explored through the HCB's Photography and Garry Winogrand | 2008 |
| Rachel O'Hara | Bender | Commonalities between the Landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich and the Early Chinese Landscapes | 2008 |
| Nicole Rosato | Ellenbogen | Edward Weston and Henrietta Shore: How Painters See Photographically | 2008 |
| Emma Waterloo | Toker | The Rise of the Architectural Drawing: A Journey in Development | 2008 |
| Lindsay Wharton | Stones | Bibles of Kings: Images of David in the Bibles Moralisées and the Morgan Picture Bible | 2008 |
| Alex Dixon | Bender | The New Castles of Potsdamer Platz | 2008 |
| Savannah Fisher | McCloskey | US Reception to a Proclaimed 'Degenerate': A Study of Edvard Munch | 2008 |
| Nicole Hinkle | Ellenbogen | An Exploration of Abstraction through Titles and Authorship during the Abstract Expressionist Period | 2008 |
| Kristi Jan Hoover | Ellenbogen | Violence and Psychology in Photography | 2008 |
| Anne Pavlick | Harris | The Young Painter in His Studio": Rembrandt's Masterful Introduction of the "Artist in His Studio" Genre to the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art World | 2008 |
| Kim Sorensen | Harris | Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and the French Revolution | 2007 |
| Sarah Stewart | Ellenbogen | Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development in Tana Hoban's Picture Books | 2007 |
| Ariane Sarno | Christian | Homosocial Networks of Patronage Within the Papal Court as Seen through Portraits by Raphael | 2007 |
| Adam Amrhein | Armstrong | Throwing Stones: The Social and Architectural Implications of the Phipps Conservatory | 2007 |
| Allison Frymoyer | Harris | Unmasking Sofonisba: Discovering her True Self-portraits | 2007 |
| Jamie Leonardi | McCloskey | Sex, Serial Murders and Sensationalism: A Study of Otto Dix, George Grosz and Lustmord | 2007 |
| Maureen Logan | Gerhart and Linduff | The Japanese Oil Painting of Takahashi Yuichi and Koyama Shotaro: A New Way of Seeing Capitalism? | 2007 |
| Dallas Sheldahl | Harris | The Role of the Spanish Inquisition in the Work of Velazquez and Goya | 2007 |
| Donald Simpson | Savage | The City Useful: The Planning of Schenley Plaza, 1911-1918 | 2007 |
| Sara Vogel | Stones | The Annunciation: An Exploration of Aesthetic in Sacred Art with Byzantine and Fifteenth-Century Italian Renaissance Examples | 2007 |
| Felicite Zimmermann | Sheon | Vincent van Gogh's Admiration and Emulation of Adolphe Monticelli | 2007 |
| Steven Guerrisi | Bender | Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum, and the Psychological Effect of Spatial Experiences on Patrons | 2007 |
| Jennifer Roth | McCloskey | Anselm Kiefer's Books | 2007 |
| Gretchen Manthey | Churchill | The Altarpiece of the Nativity: Its Place in Early Netherlandish Painting | 2006 |
| Darin Stine | Christian | Representations of Raphael's Muse | 2006 |
| Przemyslaw Linka | Bender | The Coast of Rügen and the Artistic Development of Caspar David Friedrich | 2006 |
| Holli Janoski | Harris | Mary Magadalen: 1st-Century Penitent or 17th-Century Aristocrat | 2006 |
| Curt Riegelnegg | McCloskey | Unraveling Paul Klee’s Eastern Mystique | 2006 |
| Emily Schantz | Toker | Schenley High School: A Textbook Example of Form Following Function | 2006 |
| Emily Kirkpatrick | Stones | The Gotha Missal: Patronage and an Analysis of Illumination | 2005 |
| Robert Bailey | Smith | Creating the Contemporary: The 2004 Carnegie International and the Biennale Explosion | 2005 |
| Rebecca D'Acunto | Savage | A Homely Woman's Opinion of a Pretty One: Jane Grey Swisshelm, Vinnie Ream, and the Image of Moral Reform in Nineteenth-Century America | 2005 |
| Kevi Lee Furgason-Clem | Churchill | Death of the Miser and the Ship of Fools in Hieronymous Bosch | 2005 |
| Renee Gondek | Weis | The Sundial of Augustus | 2005 |
| Christian Schoening | Piller | Clement Greenberg | 2005 |
| Brenna Drury | Bender | Methodological Concerns in the Research of Installation Art, Using the Use of Shadows and Light in the Work of Christian Boltanski as Case Study | 2004 |
| Chirstopher Guignon | Hearn | A Comparison of Heidegger’s Philosophies of Dwelling and the Origin of Art and 16th and 17th c. Japanese Architecture | 2004 |
| Norah Krakosky | Linduff | The Effects of the Three Rivers Dam Project on the Cultural Artifacts of the Yangtze River Region | 2004 |
| Sarah Lukens | Toker | Reception and Promotion of Modern Architecture in American Periodicals of 1930s | 2004 |
| Adam Secola | Neal | Antoni Gaudi | 2004 |
| Emily Semrau | Sheon | Popular Imagery and the French Revolution | 2004 |
