Research

Nina Baktadze
Title: Tracing Georgian Nationalism in Soviet Architecture
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Walker Blood
Title: The Creating of an American Home through Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Emma Deutsch
Title: Kitchen Rag: Spaces of Food, Memory and Conviviality in Modern and Contemporary Art
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Giovanni Falcone
Title: Futurism in the City of the Future: Marinetti's avant-garde in New York 1909-1930
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Freya Hatch-Surisook
Title: Hmong Textiles: Memory, Migration, and Community
Adviser: Heeryoon Shin

Francesca Houran
Title: I Femminiella: Unearthing Sanctified Queerness
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Violet King:
Title: In the Earth Below and Sky Above: Violence, Healing, and the Body in the Work of Ana Mendieta and Nancy Spero
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Zöe Manwiller
Title: Golden Temptresses: The Petrifying Beauty of Pre-Raphaelite Women
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Amanda Mason
Title: From Mouth to Mind: A Close Examination of Two Carved Boxwood Peapods through Print, Paint, and Sculpture and References to Fertility
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Diana McCready
Title: The Familiarity of Hapticity Overrides the Rationality of Sight
Adviser: Drew Thompson

Sabine Paris
Title: Andy & Edie, Warhl and Sedgwick
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Ardel'Paschal Sampson
Title: Create Space-Create Communal Change: An Exploration of Tactics Used by Augusta Savage and Theaster Gates
Adviser: Susan Merriam

William Schorer
Title: A Mongoose in Moscow: Adapting Rikki-Tikki-Tavi to Soviet Animation
Adviser: Oleg Minin

Betty Wang
Title: The Survival of the Hakka Culture in Contemporary Arts
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky

Odette Zhou
Title: Transformation of the Chinese Culture in 20th Century Art. A Brief History: Song Dong and Wenda Gu
Adviser:
Patricia Karetzky




 

Kimbrielle Boult
Title: Mary T. Smith in the Margins: Analyzing th Oppressive Parameters of Outside ARt
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Maia Cassandra Ferreira Cluver
Title: Refazimento: Fragmented Histories of Brazilian Slavery
Advisers: Katherine Boivin and Thomas Keenan

Henry Farnum
Title: "Cheap Architecture"
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Emmie Foster
Title: Reclaiming the Self After Trauma: Another Look at Yoko Ono's Body of Work
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Maya Frieden
Title: The Public Bathroom: Tracing a History of Architectural Symbolism and Social Control
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Anamae Gilroy
Title: The Artist Diary
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Olivia Guillotin
Title: Les six continents: An Exploration of Political Visual Rhetoric in Public Sculpture
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Drew Honeycutt
Title: The Birth of the Bicycle: The Development, Aesthetic Form, and the Social Attitude Towards the Velocipede in the 19th Century
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Erin Ikelheimer
Title: Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: Psychediel Script Design and Posters from Haight-Ashbury's Golden Age (1965-1969)
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Emma Livingston
Title: Artists as Activists; Exploring the Significance of Location in Protest Art
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Sydney Mello
Title: "The Boy Who Lived, Come to Die:" A Visual Tradition of Medieval Death in the Harry Potter Films.
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Sofia Mozo-Borland
Title: "The Queen's Candy: Identity Building through Sofia Coppola's Fiilm Marie Antoinette"
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Luka Murro
Title: 9/11: News Media as Prism
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Taylor Ndiaye
Title: Sisterhood: Locating the Photography of Carrie Mae Weems, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Deana Lawson Within a Rhizome of Black Feminist Discourse
Adviser: Kobena Mercer

Nicole Parides
Title: The Tyranny of Ancient Over Modern: German Philhellenism and Modern Greek Painting in Post-Ottoman Greece
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Gabrielle Alexis Penn
Title: Growing in Glamor: Nearly Lost Stories of Black Women Claiming Autonomy Throiugh Fashion in Early Twentieth Century New York
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Avery Sicular
Title: "The World is a Garden for the State to Master: The Evolution of the Chahar Bagh from achaemenid Persia to Mughal India."
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Jeremy Waldinger-White
Title: Upside Down Facings: Exploring the Figurative Paintings of Nicole Eisenmann
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Meredith Wolkom
Title: Feminine Monstrosity: Medusa Through the Ages
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Yiran Yao
Title: "A Living Harmony of Tones": Matisse, Painting, and Music"
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Diyang Zhou
Title: A Myth of Two Cultures and Three Religions: A Study of the Green Dragon Temple Complex in Zhenyuan
Adviser: Susan Merriam

 

Tatiano Alfaro
Title: (Altar)making a Sacred Latinx Space
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Bechet Allen
Title: Martin Margiela and the Japanese Designers: An Exploration of Cultural Exchange Through Fashion
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Mike (Junwei) Li
Title: Imagery in Buddhist Art: The Evolution of the Worship of Buddha Vairochana and the Five Buddha Families
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky

Julianna Preston
Title: Architecture Obscura: The Metaphysical World of Remedios Varo
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Vita Sherin-Jones
Je Me Souviens: Visualizing Language in Quebec's Quiet Revolution
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Pendle (Yuhan) Song
Title: The Impact of Dunhuang Murals on Modern and Contemporary Art
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky

Abigail Stanley
Title: Hieronymus Bosch in Context: A Look into the Relationship Between the Table of the Seven Deadly Sins and King Philip II of Spain
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Serena Warren
Title: Constructivism in Early Soviet Russia: Textiles, Graphic Design and Photomontage
Adviser: Oleg Minin, Julia Rosenbaum

Sophia Weiland
Title: Intimacy for Sale: The Interior Landscape of Social Media
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Mia Ye
Title: the Post 1990s Chinese Artists and their Art: Xin Liu, Wa Liu, and Zipiao Zhang
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky

Yiyang Zhou
Title: Kaprow's Sweet Wall and Muller's Green Border: A Case Study of Artworks along National Boundaries Post-World War II in Europe
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

 

Anastasi, Emily
Title: Experiential Museum: Immersive Installation Art in the Age of Social Media
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Andreas, Susan
Title: The Photogram Now and Then: An Investigation of Contemporary Photogram Practice.
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Barrett, Thea
Title:  From the Profane to the Sacred: Modernist Christian Chapels of the 20th Century                      
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Berkey, Olivia                                    
Title:Tracing Gesture, Tracing Ground: Art and Performance in “Earth-Body Rites,” 1967-1975.
Adviser: Alex Kitnick
           
Engel, Iris                              
Title:
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Erim, Cemre
Title: Legacies of Madness: An Exploration of the Reception of Vincent Van Gogh and Yayo Kusama
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Erpf, Saskia                           
Title: A History of Brassiere Design
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Garcia, Gabriella 
Title:                  
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Gichan, Sarah
Title: “The Creative Child: Art and Playgrounds in Postwar New York”
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Goldberg, Gabriella              
Title:  Other Monumentality: Folk Memorials, Intimacy, and Public Lament  
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Han, Helen 
Title: Qiapao and Visual Culture
Adviser: Tom Wolf

He, Angela
Title: Afterlife of a Renaissance Sculpture: Reception History of Michelangelo’s Pieta                          
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Howard, Maya 
Title: Pantomimes of Power in the Court of Kulik: Zofia Kulik’s Visual Idioms of Individuality and Ideology
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Kothari, Shay     
Title: Painting and Modern Indian: F.N. Souza, M.F. Husain and Artistic Identity After Independence
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Laprade, Marina       
Title: YouTube: Theater for Gen Z's Hyperreality          
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Li, Lucy
Title: Zhang Jinqiu’s Museums in Xi’an: Interpreting the City’s National and Cultural Identity Through the Design of Contemporary
Museum Architecture.
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky

Lu, Vesper
Title: The Oriental “Other” from 19^th Century French Colonialism: Delacroix and the Women of Algiers                            
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Pendergast, Michelle 
Title: "You Don't Have to Go to Africa to See African Art": Nelson Rockefeller, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Michael C. Rockefeller Wing" and African Art
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Puig Davis, Rowan
Title:  “Can You See It?” Providing Visual Arts Access to Audiences with Visual Impairment and Blindness             
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Song, Wenfei  
Title:                       
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky

Teich, Maya
Title:  Embedded: The Bed as an Art Object                       
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Wang, Xinyue
Title: ‘The Role of the Qin In Chinese Culture and Art.’
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky

Wayland, Victoria   
Title: With Love to the Everyday Miracle
Adviser: Alex Kitnick
 

Lin Barnett
Title: Cedar Hill: A Case Study in Preservation and Education in a Digital World
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Flora Boatwright
Title: Evangelicalism Examined: The Power of Signage, Painting, and Sculpture in the Southern Yard Show
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Catalina Bulgach
Title: Leather, Logos, and Luxury: The Critical Discourse of Street Style
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Reza Daftarian
Title: Metaphors, Mysticism, and Mathematics: The Work and Life of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Olivia Donahue
Title: Sacrifice and Contradiction: Käthe Kollwitz's Spaces of Memory
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Gage Frink
Title: In the Illusory Babels of Language: Contemporary Artists' Novels
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Justin Gomez
Title: "spectator sport": Black Abstraction at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969-1971
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Emma Klement
Title: The Holistic Self: A Visual Analysis of Carl Jung's The Red Book
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Harrison Kroessler
Title: The Immensities of Artifacts
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Ariel Manwiller
Title: Botticelli's Dancing Angels: Shaping Space in the Celestial Realm
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Kelli McKinney
Title: The Art of Inclusion, Black Art and (Mis)representation: Repainting Black Expression
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Liam Nolan
Title: From the Church of Disco to Waterfront Ruins: An Analysis of Gay Space
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Willa Rudolph
Title: The Liminal in Ink: Chicana Feminist Art, Abjection, and Tattoos as Borderlands
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Tangkangfu Shao
Title: On the Mahaparinirvana Fresco in Dunhuang Cave 428
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky

Isabella Spann
Title: Sanguine Salvation: Pilgrimage and Penance at the Sanctuary of Chimayo
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Aaron Thixton
Title: Uncertain Critique: Andrea Fraser, Pierre Bourdieu, and Jacques Rancière
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Ziyan Wang
Title: Nationalized Bodies: Kuroda Seiki and the Birth o the Nude in Meji Japan
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Kristen Westerduin
Title: French Classicism in Four Painters: Where it Went and Why
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg



 

Lucy Atkinson
Title: Hazel Larsen Archer and Photography at Black Mountain College, 1933-1957
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Marisa Bach
Title: She Has Good Jeans: The History of Denim as Womenwear
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Ruby Brooke
Title: Gentile da Fabriano's Adoration of the Magi: Iconographic Influences of Decorative Arts from the Islamic World
Adviser: Olga Bush

Josie Danzinger
Title: Interview Magazine: Art & Fame
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Gracie Hadland
Title:  "Embracing a Rosebush:" The Reception of Joan Mitchell
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Kristen Kubecka
Title: Homo Ludens: Play, Subversion and the Unfinished Work of Constant's New Babylon
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Alexander Lau
Title: Structural Mutations: The Films of Toshio Matsumoto and Takashi Ito
Adviser: Richard Suchenski

Mia Lotan
Title: The Affective Potential of Formal Play Camp Sensibility and Dark Humor in Aids Activist Video
Adviser: Alex Kitnick
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Sophie Mueller
Title: Illustrating Masterpieces: Teaching the Artist Biography to Elementary School Students Using Picture Books
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg
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Sophia O'Brien-Udry
Title: Prosthetic Fantasies: Morton Bartlett, Hans Bellmer, and Engaging the Artificial Body
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum
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Sarah Peskin
Title: Does that Look Gay? Framing Queer Identity in Extended Sensibilities: Homosexual Presence in Contemporary Art
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg
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Rebecca Sell
Title: Cuban Art in the 1980s
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Grace Sheed
Title: Progressive Art Education in the Settlement House Movement
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum
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Conghao Tian
Title: East Meets West: A Comparative Study on the Origin of Landscape Depiction
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky
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Ehm West
Title: Poetry is Not a Luxury: Dis-ing Self Dis-ing Archive
Adviser: Alex Kitnick
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Miranda Whitus
Title: Collection Ontogenesis: Following the Nascence and Maturation of the Montgomery Place Collection
Adviser: Olga Touloumi
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Raphael Wolf
Title: Something More Real than Art: Homelessness and Alternative Tactics of Public Address, New York 1989
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Brandon Acton-Bond
Title: Fabricating Realness: Yinka Shonibare MBE and Dutch Wax Print Textiles
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Aaron Boehlert
Title: Hitler's Germania: Propaganda Writ in Stone
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Jurriaan Brugge
Evolution of Non-Objective Art in the Russian Avant-garde, 1900-1923
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Peter Brant
Title: Versailles: Palace of the Sun
Adviser: Diana Depardo-Minsky

Adrienne Chau
Title: The Phallic Woman: A Reexamination of the Problematics of Women and Surrealism
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Alex Coffield
Title: From the Runway to the Museum: Commodity or Art? Fashion's Place in the Museum
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Caroline Currin
Title: The Ressurection of the American Road Film: An Analysis of American Honey
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Kennedy Fairfax
Title: Freedom and Constraint in the Paintings of Francisco de Goya
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Lily Gavin
Title: Invisible Invitations: A Meditation on the Sentimental, Socio-Political, and Philosophical Significance of Park Benches
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Tyuki Imamura
Title: Seeing as Ceaseless Seeings: Methodology in Artworks of Dinh Q. Le and Young-Hae Change Heavy Industries and the Rhetoric of the Kyoto-School Thinkers
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Domantas Karalius
Title: Gender in Contemporary Iran in the Works of Abbas Kowsari
Adviser:  Laurie Dahlberg

Hannah Kay
Title: Untitled (The Language of Absence in Minimalist Art)
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Shireen Kahn
Title: Indeterminable Futures: Unraveling Modern Identity and National Space in Post Colonial India 1947-1980
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Kaitlyn Kester
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Olivia Kravetz
Title: Meet Meat: The Consumption, Appropriation, and Ritual of Art Utilizing Meat as a Medium
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Yeonjin Lee
Title: Artist Chung Sang-Hwa in the Scene of Dansaekhwa
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky

David Mamukelashvili
Title: Portraits of the Most Sane
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Sondra McGill
Title: The Woodstock Artists Association: Synthesizing the Modern and Traditional
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Jacey Mossack
Title: A Street Photographer's Toolbox: Techniques and Technologies in 20th Century American Street Photography
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Niall Murphy
Title: After the Crash: The Ground and the Sublime in the Works of Hito Steyerl and Trevor Paglen
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Olmo Schnabel
Title: Colombian Political Violence Through The Lens of Visual Metaphor: The Art of Juan Manuel Echavarria and Doris Salcedo
Adviser: Susan Aberth 
 

Claudia Bennett
Title: The Visual Culture of Human Rights: The Syrian Refugee Crisis
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Mirabi Bright-Thonney
Title: Divine Interiors: Meaning, Spirituality, and Evolution in Baptismal Ritual Space
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Grace Calderley
Title: Welcome Home: Film, Feelings, and Modern Architecture of the Cold War
Adviser: Richard Suchenski

John Cherichello
Title: The Loggia
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Mary-Elizabeth Clair
Title: Naughty and Nice: A Study in Lingerie and Its Contradictory Symbolism, from Eve to the Age of Madonna
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Claudine Elysee
Title: What is Our Electricity: A Look into the Use of Electrical Cords as Media
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Sylvia Estes
Title: Deconstructing Barriers Analyzing Photographic Works by Gregory Halpern and Jim Goldberg
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Gilda Gross
Title: Architectural Constructions of Memory and the Ruin in Post-1989 Berlin
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Willem Koppel
Title: Surface Depth: Materiality, Craft and Identity in Sixties Art
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Carly Krim
Title: Modern Light and Sensibility: Creating a Danish Identity Through Architecture
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Connor Marley
Title: Warhol's Hustler and Queen Assembly Line: Deconstructing Factory Produced Genders and Their Roles in Contemporary Queer Culture
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Ivy Nallo
Title: An Exploration in the Islamic State's Digital Media Campaign
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

John Ohrenberger
Title: Rites of the Concrete Jungle: Pre-Columbian Aesthetics in Esoteric Visual Culture
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Alec Petty
Title: Possible and Impossible Worlds: The Radical Language, Politics, and Aesthetics of Paul Chan
Adviser:  Alex Kitnick

Philip Poznansky
Title: Expressionist Medievalism: Ernst Barlach and Medieval Art
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Kelllan Rohde
Title: Isolating the Sky
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Alexa Runsdorf
Title: Recognizing the Parallels Between Fashion and Art: The Deisgns of Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent and Rei Kawakubo
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Isabelle Rust
Title: The Curation of Identity: Aesthetics of National Division in German Art during the 1950s
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Alexandra Sherlock
Title:  Regarding Helen: Helen of Troy in Homer and on Vases
Adviser: Diana Depardo-Minsky

Morgan Schuler
Title: The Significance of Female Attire as Shown in Florentine Portraiture of the Quattrocento to the Cinquecento
Adviser: Diana Depardo-Minsky

Paris Starn
Title: The Colonial Convent of Santa Monica Puebla: Naughty Nuns Breaking the Rules
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Isabelle Turgeon
Title: Raphael's Tapestries: Religion and Rivalries
Adviser: Diana Depardo-Minsky

Dominic Yang
Title: Smile with Christ
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky

Ahsiya Zurita
Title: The Visual Culture of Human Rights: The Syrian Refugee Crisis
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Laura Begley
Title: Salvador Dali and the Cult of Personality: The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Sally Chakwin
Title: A Struggle for Supremacy: Decoding the Political Agendas of Strasbourg Cathedral's Medieval Portals
Adviser: Katherine Boivin

Bruno DiCorcia
Title: Counter Culture: Danger, Vanity, and the Weekend
Adviser: Luc Sante

Michaela Friedberg
Title: Alvaro Siza's Piscinas das Mares: An Analytical Reconfiguration of Portuguese National Identity and Modern Sacred Space
Adviser: Olga Touloumi

Emma Gunuey
Title: Primary Functions: Alan Saret's Installation for Man
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Chiara Harrison-Lambe
Title: Rome Repurposed: The Portrayal of the Pantheon in Eighteenth-Century Consumer Culture
Adviser: Diana Depardo-Minsky

Anna Hirson-Sagalyn
Title: Walls Have Ears But They Also Speak - A Comparative Study of Two Playgrounds
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Rachel Katz
Title: Love Hurts - Portrayals of Domestic Violence in Art
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Alexandre Khondji
Title: Rethinking the Exhibition Experience
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Gabriel Kilongo
Title: Constructions of Imaginary Nations
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Cody Lee
Title: Fruit, Flowers and Fungi: Three Generations of Women at the Montgomery Place Gardens
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Quinn Moreland
Title: Hannah Wilke: A Work of Art
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Jake Nadrich
Title: It's Beautiful Elsewhere and I Am Here: Exploring the Utopian Impulse in Contemporary Video Art
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Hallie Nolan
Title: Legacy: The Fine Arts Palace on St. Louis's 1904 World's Fair and Gateway Arch
Adivser: Diana Depardo-Minsky

Alix Peronnet
Title: Jean Leon Gerome: The Debated Dark Faces of a Spectacular Artist
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Abe Rosenthal
Title: The Stalinist Dreamscape: Soviet Political Posters, 1934-1941
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Alana Shaw
Title: Dialectics of Occlusion: The Mundaneum at Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Maxwell Taylor-Milner
Title: The Truth Must Also Be Beautiful: Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Joseph Beuys, Hans Haacke, and Thomas Hirschhorn
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Maxwell Tolleson
Title: Artist Books in the Postwar Era: Expanding Boundaries of Self, Subject and Culture
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Nicolas Viollet
Title: Hon is Where the Art Is: The Spectator's Role in the History of Hon - en Katedral
Adviser: Alex Kitnick

Julia Vunderink
Title: Female Patronage and Expatriate Influence in Mexican Folk Art
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Yasaman Seyedeh Ahrari
Title: Iranian Modernism: the Saqqakhaneh Movement and its Politics
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Dylan Brant
Title: A Study on Themes from Cady Noland's 1990 Sow at Luhring Augustine Hetzler
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Nicholas Carbone
Title: Entero y verdadero: The Visual Investigations of Victor Erice and Antonio Lopez Garcie
Adviser: Richard Suchenski and Susan Aberth

Lillian Chemla
Title: Now Your See Me, Now You See Me: Photography and Privacy Rights in the Work of Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Arne Svenson
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Claire Demere
Title: The Viewing Self: A Reflection on Mirrors as medium from the 1960s to the Present
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Alexandra Fabrizion
Title: Too Hot to Handle (?): Provocations and Their Redemptive Effect in the Works of Nao Bustamanate
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Kalena Fuji
Title: The Shift in Fashion Photography: A Fantasy Based in Reality
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Zoe Groomes-Klotz
Title: you, Urs, and Mine: Space and memory in urs Fischer's you
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Phoebe Herland
Title: The Artist in Context: Exploring the Curatorial Treatment of Agnes Martin
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Erica Imbasciani
Title: Caravaggio, Paleo-Christian Antiquarian: Three Paintings and their Oratorian Influences
Adviser: Diana Depardo-Minsky

Charlotte Mack Barrett
Title: Misplaced Aesthetics at Pruitt-Igoe; The Application of Modernism in the Context of American Poverty
Adviser: Irene Sunwoo

Elizabeth Scher
Title: Jugend Stil: Reassembling Enrst Ludwig Kirchner's Forgotten Works
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Emma Weinman
Title: Contemplating a Hyphenated Identity: An Examination of Winold Reiss's The Months
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Jean Wong
Title: Looking Back at Modernity: The Reinvention of Antiquity as seen through three Italian wall paintings
Adviser: Susan Merriam
 

James Bayard
Title: Ryan Trecartin Dismantles the Apparatus of Mastery
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Farr Bryant
Title: Wallflower Redux: Uncovering the Symbolism of the Wallpaper in Three Historic Hudson Valley Villas
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Julia Carter
Title: Luis Bunuel’s Surrealist Dinner Parties
Adviser: Richard Suichenski

Lolita Cros
Title: It is in the Desert that Miracles Happen: Contrasting Experiences of Spirituality at Nancy Holt’s “Sun Tunnels” and Don and Judd’s “Marfa”
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Ashley Duhrkoop
Title: Atomic Bodies
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Lillian Dumont
Title: “Other”-hood and Brotherhood: Representation of Subculture, Masculinity, and the Homoerotic in Bruce Davidson’s “Brooklyn Gang”
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Kelsey Hoffman
Title: “Living Tableaux of Queerness:” The Living Middle Eastern Displays of the World’s Columbian Exposition
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Jin-Woo Jun
Title: Regarding the Uncertainty of our Hypens: Locating Hybridity in the Imaginary Landscapes of do-Ho Suh
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Sophia Kay
Title: Deconstructing Monuments: Rachel Harrison and Mike Kelley’s Engagement with the Subjectile
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Coralie Kraft
Title: Architectural Anxiety: Italian Architecture in the Short Fiction of Henry James
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Sarah Lettiere
Title: Weegee’s Utopian Village
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Colin McFadden
Title: Crossing in Style: Interwar Ocean Liner Design
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Aline Menedez
Title: Marion Greenwood Through the Eyes of Marion Greenwood
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Emma Pelman
Title: Clarence John Laughlin: The Southern Gothic in Photography
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Charlotte Perry
Title: Art and Education: America’s Struggle to Define the Role of the Arts in the Public Sphere
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Bianca Ryseck
Title: Man’s Answer to Nature’s Call: The Private Space of the Public Restroom
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Sebastian Sarmiento-Moreno
Title: The Work of Francisco Salazar: A Meditation on Cardboard
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Emma Schmiedecke
Title: From Muse to Musician: Portraits of Women and Music at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Frances St. Amant
Title: Conception, Conversion, Curation: Agency and Identity in the History of the Julia Flavia Intaglio
Adviser: Diana Depardo-Minsky

Deidre Thompson
Title: A Negress of Noteworthy Talent: Kara Walker’s Alternate Histories of the American South
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Marissa Unger
Title: Illuminating the Grail: Chretien de Troyes’s Perceval and Its Continuations
Adviser: Marisa Libbon

Rebecca Van Kollenburg
Title: Evolving Artist?Audience Agency int he Trajectory of Feminist Performance Art: Carolee Schneemann’s Interior Scroll, Annie
Sprinkle’s Post-Porn Modernist, and Narcissister’s Narcissister
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Lilah Anderson
Title: Four New/Corners/Artists Approaching the Intersection
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Emanuela Del Peschio
Title: Oh my Gouache: A Reconsideration of Alexander Calder’s Opaque Watercolors
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Amy Freeman
Title: David Wojnarowicz and the Art Love Hate Triangle: Artists, Art Institutions and the Right Wing
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Keziah Goudsmit
Title: Hitler’s Great Wall: The Battle of the Entartete Kunst exhibition, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Otto Dix Misrepresented As “Anti-Heroes” To Consolidate Volksgemeinschaft
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Anatole Hocek
Title: The Art of Urban Exploration: A means of Processing Alienation and Intimacy with the Built Environment
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Lily Kaminsky
Title: Film Among the Arts: Understanding the History of Film through Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard
Adviser: Richard Suchenski

Fiona Laugharn
Title: Giving Form to the Formless: Gutai’s Critical Reception in America
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Patricia Manos
Title: “Strong in Our Weakness:” Yael Bartana’s Strategies for Living with Ghosts
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Nicole Minatel
Title: Modern Man, Old Master: World War I Exposed in Otto Dix’s Der Krieg Triptych
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Anna Page Nadin
Title: Submission to Salvation: Deconstructing the Body and the Inanimate in the Photography of Jimmy DeSana
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Miriam Natis
Title: Dead in the Water: The Representation of Mermaids in Symbolist Art
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Madeleine Nimoy
Title: The Happiest Place on Earth: A Disneyland Retrospective Through the Postcard
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Alexander O’Kane
Title: “Dress Becomes Body Becomes Dress:” The Work and Influence of Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garcons
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Lindsay Pike
Title: Resurrection and Reconstruction: Visions of Vezelay during the 13th, 19th, and 21st Centuries
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Christopher Richards
Title: The Age of Tears: Rogier van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross and its Lachrymose Contexts
Adviser: Susan Merriam

Monica Semczyk
Title: Patterning the Past: Arthur Szyk’s Kaleidoscopic Re-Imagination of Historica Identity
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Madeline Turner
Title: Pop Culture Catholicism: The Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, and Other Superstars of the transición española
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Jeremy Ulman
Title: “Outta My Way, Homes:” Domestic Discontent in NYC’s Graffiti Culture, ca. 1973
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Madeline Williamson
Title: New Wilderness
Adviser: Susan Merriam

November  2011

Madeleine Kiwak
Title: Carolingian Medieval Manuscripts: Reception and Controversies Surrounding the Ebbo Gospels and Utrecht Psalter
Adviser: Alice Stroup and Jean French

Stefan Klecheski
Title: The Narkomfin Building: Housing the Transitional Ideal
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Elizabeth Erin Morrel
Title: Carl Akeley’s African Hall of Mammals: Reanimating Life and the Popularization of Natural History at the American Museum
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Nicole V. Stein
Title: Pedroland/Fantasyland: The Construction of Mexico at South of the Border and EPCOT’s Mexico Pavilion
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Jennifer Barry
Title: The Light and the Glass: An exploration of contemporary photographers using antiquarian processes.
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Hannah Becker
Title: Delusions of Grandeur: Analyzing Dualities of
Glitter in Contemporary Art
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Julia Borden
Title: Unrealized Visions: The Architectural Document as Record of Rupture
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Peter Christian
Title: Perpetual Institutionalization: The Impossibility
of Institutional Critique in the 2010 Taipei Biennial
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Gabriella Cipolla
Title: Modernity and Marginality: Scandinavian
Landscape Painting, 1880- 1895
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Isabelle Coler
Title: Embodying Indian Culture in the Feminine Ideal
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky

Clare Conniff
Title: Bungalow-mania!: Vacation Aesthetics and
Culture on the New Jersey Shore, 1910-1950
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Nicolette Cook
Title: Little Children Love One Another: The Issues of Conservationand their Application in the Restoration of Stained Glass Windows
at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Barrytown, NY
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Caroline Hazzard
Title: “The Space Between: Liminality in the Art of
Ana Mendieta, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Manuel Piña Baldoquín”
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Rachel Heidenry
Title: Mártires y Comandantes: Tracing Historical
Memory in the Murals of El Salvador.
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Karen Johnson
Title: Ties that Bind: The Regulatory Nature of
Women’s  Dress in Britain 1870-1939
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Sara Kornhauser
Title: The American Frame Revolution: Frames in the
Modern Era, 1865-1950
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Erica Lome
Title: From Fearsome to Fantastic: The Evolution of
Supernatural Imagery in the Japanese Art of the
Tokugawa Period (1600-1868)
Adviser: Patricia Karetzky

Anais Moore-Jaccard
Title: Home Is Where The Heart Is: Community, Habitat and the
Right to the City in the Chavez Ravine
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Daniel  Peacock
Title: Strange and Wayward Fancies: Desire, Vision,
and Intervention in the Photographic Practice
of F. Holland Day
Adviser: Laurie Dahlberg

Allison Simpson
Title: Attendance Mandatory But Not Required
Museum Negotiations, 1967-1970
Adviser: Noah Chasin

Dean Singleton
Title: “Maya Lin: Recognizing People. Inspiring Greatness.”
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Marlies Staples
Title: Sites of Resistance/Sights of Utopia: A Look At
New Queer Art Through Collective Eyes
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Kara Swami
Title: Thelma Golden: from Black to Post-Black
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Katherine Swenson
Title: ‘Digging in the Garden is not Meaningless
Work’: Alan Sonfist’s Time Landscape and
Walter De Maria’s New York Earth Room
Adviser: Tom Wolf

Mary Tronstad
Title:  Misguided Tours from the Museum to the
Workshop: Folk Art, Tourism, and the Modern
Search for Authenticity in Oaxaca, Mexico
Adviser: Susan Aberth

Emma Whisler
Title: Monuments and Non.u.ments
Adviser: Julia Rosenbaum

Liza Young
Title: The Rise of the Sentient Musical Instrument: A Study of Hieronymus Bosch’s Musical Instruments and their Dissonant Revolution
Adviser: Jean French

Sarah Ashcroft
Project: Miguel Calderón: Below the Belt and Across the Border
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Alison Chemla
Project:The Big Chill: Three Contemporary Artists Confront Death
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Emma Ciccarelli
Project: Durham Cathedral: Reevaluating the Proto-Gothic Label
Advisor: Jean French

Mae Colburn
Project: Sight/Site: Three Photographic Views of the White House Ruins at the Canyon de Chelly
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Emily Eyre
Project: Painting, Politics and the Palazzo Vecchio: Leonardo da Vinci and Giorgio Vasari in the Salone dei Cinquecento
Advisor: Diana Depardo-Minsky

Katherine Cureton Poe Ferguson
Project: Mike Kelley Plays with Toys: The Uncanny in the Everyday
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Logan Gaisford
Project: The Parthenon and Nationl Identity in Greece
Advisor: Diana Depardo-Minsky

Nicholas Gorski
Project: The Future to Behold: Science Fiction Cover Art from Paul to Powers
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Francesca Gunn
Project: Synthetic Spaces: Landscapes, Art-Objects, and Tourism,
1820-1864
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Simone Krug
Project: Looking at Looking: Spectator as Art in Honoré Daumier and Thomas Struth
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Robert Landa
Project: The Impossibility of Painterly Figuration
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Tess Landon
Project: Reading the Rooms: An Exploration of the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago
Advisor: Susan Merriam

John Loonam
Project:“for the lulz” Radical Internet Folk Art and User-Generated Content
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Erin Maglaque
Project: The Biron Pietá: Visual Form, Theological Content, and
Devotional Function
Advisor: Jean French

Kelsey Merriam
Project: Painting The In-Between: the Elision of Interior and Exterior in the Work of Johannes Vermeer
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Alisa Saario
Project: Expanding the Parameters of Protest: Chilean Sound Art
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Katelin Sheffield
Project: Reconstructing the Spirit: The Religious Vernacular Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan and Nellie Mae Rowe
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Rebeca Solverson
Project: Art in Vacant Spaces: A Proposal to Transform Downtown Tacoma’s Unused Places into Temporary Cultural Sites
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Cora Sugarman
Project: Seeing the Sound: Album Art, Rock Photography, and the Visual Phenomenon of Rock and Roll
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

2009

Adwoa Adusei
Project: The Arts and Cultures of Consumption: Examining the Cultural Capital of Ablade Glover and David Hammons
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Lowell Clare
Project: The Brilliant Locus: An Exploration of Physical and Philosophical Enlightenment in Sir John Soane’s Museum
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Sara Frier
Project: Metropolis Mori:  Sex and Death in Otto Dix’s Großstadt Triptychon
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Alyssa Giangregorio
Project: The Iconography of Michelangelo’s  St. Matthew
Advisor: Diana Depardo-Minsky

Kathryn Gile
Project: Refiguring Desire: Kehinde Wiley’s Subversion of the Decorative Form
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Paris Ionescu
Project:Relational Aesthetics: A Survey and Critique of Bourriaud’s Model of Art Since the Early 1990s
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Quinby McLellan
Project: Chinese Bodies in Spectacle: The Performing Masses in Beijing’s Opening Ceremony of the 29th Olympiad
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Eliza Mullen
Project: Artistic Supremacy and the Pursuit of Power: The Mutually Beneficial Relationship of King Henry VIII and his Court Artist, Hans Holbein the Younger
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Sara Paden
Project: “Paper Bullets:” World War I Posters and America’s Visual Language of War
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Rebeka Radnar
Project: Down Through the Sediment and Upward Towards Healing: Anself Kiefer and the Rebirth of History Painting
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Emma Richter
Project: Expanding the Concept of a Museum: Three Moments of Change, Controversy, and Reception in the Trajectory of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Elizabeth Rosenfield
Project: Visual Innuendos: A Feminist Exploration of Paintings by Lisa Yuskavage
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Abigail Schwartz
Project: From the Street to the Studio: Graffiti in New York City During the 1970s and 80s
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Jonathan Sutak
Project: Play Grounded
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Rosemary Winter
Project: Nineteenth-Century Native American Souvenir Art: Cultural Exchange at Niagra Falls
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Serda Yalkin
Project: Performing Politics: Collective Initiatives and Public Spectacles in Contemporary Argentina
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Camilla Aikin
Project: Sniffing Glue vs. No Future: The Visual Culture of Punk in the US and UK
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Erin Bagley
Project: Museum Poetics of Jurasic Technology
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Julia Carrozzini
Project: Valentino a Roma: The Mythology of Rome and The Shaping of Italy’s National Identity
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Jennifer Caster
Project: Gluttonous, Scorched, and Riotous Flocks: Navigating American Identity through the Bird Art of Walton Ford and John James Audubon
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Olivia Cohen
Project: Silent Sitters: The Female Portrait Genre in Renaissance Florence and the Representations of Giovanna degli Albizzi Ronabuoni
Advisor: Jean French

Colleen Harriss
Project: Ernesto Pujol, Odd Man Out: Investigating the Interstices of Otherness
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Sarah Kogan
Project: ‘All the mutilated blocks of art’: The Rhetoric of the Elgin Marbles
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Sara Lurie
Project: The Gender Veil: The Creation and Myth of the Feminine Identity in American Culture Illustrated by the Photographs of Cindy Sherman
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Mathew Mauricio
Project: Illusions of Submersion: Nature and Artifice in the Public Aquarium
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Chris McCloskey
Project: The Thrill of Victory, The Agony of Defeat: An Analysis of Michelangelo’s Victory Group
Advisor: Jean French

Georgia Muenster
Project: National Identity, Shinto Aesthetics, and the Architecture of Kenzo Tange
Advisor: Patricia Karetzky

Daniel Mullin
Project: Systems in Crisis: An Encyclopedia of Fashionable Thought
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Jacleen Simons
Project: Sculpture and Idolatry in Michelangelo’s Brazen Serpent
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Jessica Strongin
Project: Wealth and Piety: A Contextual Analysis of Jan van Eyck’s Rolin Madonna
Advisor: Jean French

Jean-Luc Unger
Project: “Recoding, Remapping, ‘Total Melt’: Active Spaces of Queer Desires and Transgender Embodiments”
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Leah Whitman-Salkin
Project: Praxis Makes Product: Contemporary Collectivist Praxis, Dialogical Spaces, and Alternative Economies
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Max Yeston
Project: Vistas of Modernity: Depictions of New York City in Depression-era Murals
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Mark Day
Project: Putting a Lid on Congress; the Dome Architecture of the United States Capitol
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Alessandra Duarte
Project: Tunga’s Experiential Transformation of Worlds
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Ljiljana Dukanovic
Project: Witnesses of Existence: Art in Conflict
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Elizabeth Eames
Project: Rivalry and Respect: The Relationship between Michelangelo and Raphael through their Acknowledgment of Influences
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Rebecca Giusti
Project: Infectious Art: Toward an Etiology of Reception
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Mikaela Gross
Project: Folded, Unfolded and Refolded: The Legacy of the Baroque in the Work of Two Contemporary Brazilian Artists
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Hannah Gruy
Project: The Movement of Marble: The Imagery of Mystical Love in Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s “The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa of Avila” and “The Beata Ludovic Albertoni”
Advisor: Jean French

Aurora Halal
Project: Rendering the Bigger Picture from a Mile Away: Quantum Mechanics, Conceptual Art, and the Ontological Crisis
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Sarah Heslip
Project: And Everywhere That Mary Went, The Lamb Was Sure to Go: An Investigation of Bayside, a Contemporary Marian Cult
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Rebecca Matalon
Project: Performing the Archive: Reading Chris Burden through Chris Burden
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Tracy Pollock
Project: Joan Semmel: Painting the Female Gaze
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Lillian Slezak
Project: On the Matter of Living Spirit: Kandinsky, the Blue Rider, and the Unification of the Arts
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Alice Whiteside
Project: The Ara Pacis: Repackaging History
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Alexandra Abella
Project: Inside and Out: The Romanticized Images of Women from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)
Advisor: Particia Karetzky

Michelle Antonisse
Project: Spatial Memoirs – Iconoclasm and the Church Interiors of Emmanuel De Witte
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Angelo Aponte
Project: Santería Reclaimed: Cuban Identity
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Jessica Blau
Project: Semana Santa: Identifying Sevillians
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Alexandra Church
Project: The Urban Villa: Origins of Suburbanism in 19th Century Newburgh
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Matthew Cummings
Project: God Created All Things in Measure and Number and Weight: Austerity and Ornament in Centralized Church Construction in 15th and 16th Century Italy
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Shlomit Dror
Project: Re-encountering Jewish identity in Latin America: The Art of José Gurvich, Moico Yaker, and Elena Climent
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Eric Erdle
Project: Going MoMA: The Commodification of the Modernist Utopian Dream
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Matthew Evans
Project: History Matters: Testimony, Tradition, and Invention in Jean Fautrier’s Otages
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Michael Gumener
Project: Thomas Struth’s and Olafur Eliasson’s Arcadias: For a New Ethos of Natural Beauty
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Peter Haffner
Project: The Politics of Haitian Art and the Visual Language of Vodou
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Alexandra Irving
Project: Filling in the Blankness
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Sarah Kathyrn Keezing
Project: Beautiful Scoundrels: The Fox as Cultural and Personal Icon in Edo, Japan, 1603-1867
Advisor: Patricia Karetzky

Kristen Keys
Project: Marys of the Sea: the Cult of the Black Madonna in France
Advisor: Jean French

Shirin Khosravi
Project: Yasumasa Morimura: Gender and Race Peformance in Photography
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Marie Kropp
Project: Sacred and Secular Narratives in Hans Memling’s Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove
Advisor: Jean French

Jennifer Lewis
Project: The Method and the Madness of Albert C. Barnes: Vying for Eduction, Resisting a Tourist Attraction
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Alessandra Merrill
Project: You Press the Button, We Do the Rest: How Kodak Advertisements Shaped the Postwar American Family.
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Amy Monaco
Project: Rene Magritte and the American Audience
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Amy Nightingale
Project: Social Documentary Photography in America: Transitions in Intent, Methodology, and Function from 1890 to 2005
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Eiren Shea
Project: The Poetic Sculptor: Rodin and His Literary Contemporaries
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Benjamin Thornborough
Project: L’Exposition Universelle de 1900: Visions of Empire and National Identity in Turn-of-the-Century France
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

David Valdini
Project: The Importance of Family: The Applied Heraldry of Popes Sixtus IV, Julius II, and Alexander VII
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Caitlin Adkins
Project: Devotion to the Natural: The Dress of Henry van de Velde
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Heather Carroll
Project: Scallop, Staff, and Scrip: Accoutrements of the Camino de Santiago Pilgrim in Romanesque Sculpture and the Formation of a “Pilgrim Identity” Advisor: Jean French

Julie Feldman
Project: Dia: Conduit to Immortality, A Critical Analysis of the Dia Art Foundation
Advisor:  Susan Merriam

Ariella Feller
Project: The Perception of a King: An Investigation into Foreign Symbols, Conventions, and Presence in Mughal Empire Painting under Emperor Jahangir
Advisor: Patricia Karetzky

Natalie Franz
Project: The Farm Beautiful: Agricultural Architecture on Mid-Hudson Valley Estates, 1890-1920
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Martha Hart
Project: VROOM – VROOM – BEEP – BEEP: The Social and Spatial Implications of  Ford in the Motor City
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Nicholas Himmel
Project: The Mythic Pennsylvania Station Civic: Space in a Material World
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Chiara Noelle Issa
Project: Hip-Hop Blackwards: Representations Through Depictions of Black Masculinity on Hip-Hop Album Covers, circa 1978-Present
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Lesley Kanner
Project: Collection and Perception: A Mule-back Ride Through Northern Spain and the Hispanic Society of America
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Alexander Klebanoff
Project: Clyfford Still: A Rebel With a Cause
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Elizabeth Prairie Belle Murphy
Project: Re-visioning Enchantment: Cultural Hybridity and Appropriation in the Arts of Luis Tapia, Ray Martin Abeyta, and Diego Romero
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Lacy Marie Simkowitz
Project: Just Another Canvas: Fernand Leger’s Works Outside of Painting from the Post-War Period 1918-1924
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Olivia Tamzarian
Project: Visions of Mexico: A Bilingual Curriculum in Mexican Art of the Twentieth Century
Advisor: Susan Aberth
Division: Multidisciplinary Studies, Program: Art History, Cultural Anthropology and Latin American Studies

Erica Yao
Project: The People’s Square: Sociopolitical Agendas and the Transformations of Architecture and Public Space in Shanghai, 1860s-1990s
Advisor: Patricia Karetzky

Jaya Sati Blakeslee
Project: ” Las Meninas: A Self-Portrait Revealed,” study of Diego de Velazquez’s Las Meninas within the context of self-portraits
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Brooke Tami Borg (Art History & Latin American and Iberian Studies)
Project: Racial and Spatial Identifiers: Changing Depictions of Women and Food in Mexican Painting, 1830-1950
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Andrea Helen Dawa Cashman
Project: Mariko Mori’s Cyborgs: Hybrid Identity and Hybrid Consciousness, Techno-Evolution in Response to Globalization
Advisor: Michael Lobel

Matthew Benjamin Jacobs
Project: Axis in Imperial Archtiecture: A Study of Divine Sanction in Roman and Kushan Commissions
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Claire Hart Johnson
Project: R. Crumb in “What’s Inside a Girl?” True Confessions of a Head Comix Artist
Advisor: Michael Lobel

Rachel Laila Juris
Project: Participatory Spaces: Aspects of Performance in Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, and Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College.
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Gabrielle Lauren Kammerer
Project: Under Mexican Skies: Sixteen-Century Open-Air Churches and the Franciscan Building Program
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Amy Rebecca Levin
Project: Public/Private: Masking the Metropolis in Fin de Siècle Vienna
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Alicia Marie LoBiondo
Project: Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love: The Evolution of Scholarship
Advisor: Jean French

Sarah Mariel Mosbacher
Project: Domestic Service and Labor Spaces at Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Samantha Erin Safer
Project: Zandra Rhodes and Her Knited Circle: Creating the Woman and Her Work, 1965-1977, project examining British textile and fashion designer Zandra Rhode’s early career, and exhibition of her textile designs
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Thomas Paul Scott
Project: Flayed Cyborgs and Other Social Heroes: the Art of the Third-Generational Muralist Arnold Belkin
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Mae Hunnewell Williams (Art History & Medieval Studies)
Project: From Dragon Myth to the Gospels: The Stave Church at Uvdal
Advisor: Jean French

Reuben Traite
Project: Revolutionary Art. The Life of Luis Quintanilla, A Gramscian Perspective
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Anna Bohichik
Project: Paint it Black: The Evolution of Lousie Nevelson’s Public Architectural Commissions
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Anne Flammang Killefer
Project: An Unearthing of the Presence and Power of Women in the Mixtec Codices:A Feminist Reading of the Zouche-Nuttal
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Sarah Davies
Project: Lumps, Bumbs, and Holes: The Art of Hans Bellmer and Cindy Sherman
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Rio Alexander Hendrix Dubberstein
Project: Strike a Pose: Examination of the Homosocial Arena of Masculinity, the Male Nude, and the Interdisciplinary Understanding of Gender and Stereotypes.
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Kat Geng
Project: The Aesthetics of Suffering.
Advsior: Tom Wolf

Lora Mary Majourau
Project: A Necessary Femininity: An Exploration of the Gender, Function, and Meaning of the Female-Featured Masks of the Dan of Liberia.
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Suzanne Read
Project: The Derivation of the Triumph of Death Fresco in Pisa.
Advisor: Anne Bertrande

Anna L. Sanchez
Project: The Lives and Times of Baroque Chiselers.
Advisor: Anne Bertrande

Eleanor Marie Woods Strehl
Project: Some Spanish Dancers: An Exploration of the Theme of the
Spanish Dancer in the Works of Manet and Sargent.
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Maria Bonarska
Project: The Sexuality of Space: A Study of the Nude in 19th Century
French Painting.

Miya Buxton
Project: Indonesian Vernacular Architecture: of Home, Body and Universe.

Elizabeth Christine Clingerman
Project: Creating the Myth of Artemesia Gentileschi or the
Development of a Feminist Critique.

Ian Gold
Project: My So-Called Art and the Interesting, Attractive, Motivating, Appealing,
Exciting, Fascinating, Attention-Grabbing, Out of the Ordinary, Worthy
Of Note Life of Sophie Callé .

Erin Brooke Horahan
Project: Chaos of the Flesh, cultural analysis of Gunther Von Hagen’s
Körperwelten: Die Faszination des Echten.
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Csongor Imre Kis
Project: Six Hundred Thousand Guldens’ Worth of Patronage: Political Propaganda and Princely Devotion in the Archiepiscopal Palace
Of Würzburg.
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Melanie Anne Meyer
Project: Pulcinella as an Agent of Change: The Use of Social and Political Satire in Domenico Tiepolo’s Divertimento per li regazzi.

Jessica Kate Pavone
Project: Site/Nonsite, Sight/Nonsight: Reworking L’informe via the work
of Robert Smithson.