Completed Dissertations

present–2020 | 2019–2010 | 2009–2000 | 1999–1990 | 1989–1980 | 1979–1970 | 1969–1960 | 1959–1950 | 1949–1940 | 1939–1930

2024

Da Hyung Jeong, Soviet Architecture  Postmodernism, 1977-1991. Advisor: Robert Slifkin

Eana Kim, Becomings: Life Forms in the Contemporary Works of Pierre Huyghe and Anicka Yi. Advisor: Thomas Crow

Megan Kincaid, Imaginative Abstraction: Painting and Possibility in Mexico, 1930-1950. Advisor: Robert Slifkin

Sophia Kroft, An Analysis of Human Representation in Predynastic Visual Culture and its Application in Reading Compositions on Decorated Ware Vessels. Advisors: David O Connor and Kathryn Howley

Alexis Monroe, Landscapes of Slavery in the Southwest, 1848-1861. Advisor: Robert Slifkin

Christopher T. Richards, Picturing Desire and Desiring Pictures: Ovide moralisé and the Vernacular Manuscript Tradition. Advisor: Alexander Nagel

Saarthak Singh, Places of Piety, Sites of Sovereignty: Architecture and urbanism in medieval Malwa, c.1050–1450.  Advisor: Finbarr Barry Flood

2023

Dustin S Aaron, Seeing Wilderness: Sculpture and the Colonization of the Medieval Eastern Alpine Region. Advisor: Robert Maxwell

Daniella Berman, Aesthetics of Contingency: History and the Unrealized Paintings of the French Revolution. Advisor: Thomas Crow.

Édouard Derom, Mapping the Postwar Continental European Avant-Garde Through the Lens of the ZERO Magazine. Advisor: Thomas Crow

Hui Fang, The Ming’s Cosmopolitan Beginnings: Painting and Pictorial Art in Yingtian, 1368-1421. Advisor: Jonathan Hay

Hannah Rose Feniak, Material Difference: Modernizing Architecture, Building Economy and Developing State in Franquista Spain. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen

Francesca Ferrari, Animated Geometries: Abstraction and the Body in the Post-First World War Work of Alexandra Exter, Paul Klee, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Joaquin Torres-Garcia. Advisors: Christine Poggi and Edward J. Sullivan

Robin Owen Joyce, Prints, Murals, and Radio Waves: Envisioning Networks in an Era of Rising Fascism. Advisor: Robert Slifkin

John Yiu Shek On, The Shi and Their Others: Shi-Oriented Figure Painting in Northern Song China, c. 1040-c. 1090. Advisor: Jonathan Hay

Yeorae Yoon, A Body’s Claims on Vision: Gao Fenghan in Shandong and Jiangnan, 1717-1741. Advisor: Jonathan Hay

2022

Ayse Pinar Gnepp, Carving and Painting Sacred Space: Working with Wood in the Mosques of Medieval Anatolia. Advisor: Finbarr Barry Flood

Robert J. Geilfuss, Three Minority Colorists in Washington, D.C., 1950-1980: Morris Louis, Alma Thomas, and Sam Gilliam. Advisor: Robert Slifkin

Lyla Marie Halsted, For Every Gazing Eye’: Magic, Medicine, and Material Culture from Late Antiquity to Medieval Islam. Advisor: Finbarr Barry Flood

Charlotte Healy, Paul Klee’s Hand. Advisor: Robert Lubar Messeri

Elizabeth Lee, Landscape of Buddhas: Rock-Carved and Monumental Stone Sculpture of the Unified Silla (668-935) – Koryŏ (918-1392) Transition. Advisor: Hsueh-man Shen

Johanna Elizabeth Sluiter, Building Habitat: Reconstruction, Decolonization, and the Atelier des Batisseurs, 1945-1962. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen

Madeline Murphy Turner, What Women Write: Artists’ Books, Postal Objects, and Independent Theater in Mexico City (1979-1992). Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan

2021

Julia Bozer, Traveler-Artists in the Old New World, 1968–1982. Advisor: Robert Slifkin

Jennifer G. Buonocore, Possible Poems: The Poetics of Carl Andre and Dan Graham, 1959-1969. Advisor: Thomas Crow

Elizabeth Eisenberg, “Modeling Life: Transformations of Verrocchio’s Sculpture in Leonardo’s Painting and Drawings.” Advisor: Alexander Nagel 

Kristen Gaylord, “Infiltrate the Masses”: Corita Kent’s Didactic Pop. Advisor: Thomas Crow

Katerina Harris, The Moment of Death in Renaissance Art. Advisor: Alexander Nagel

Briana Jackson, The Geographic and Social Spread of Aten Cult throughout Egypt and Sudan. Advisor: David O'Connor

Anna Majeski, “Visualizing the Cosmos in Trecento Padua: From Giotto di Bondone to Giusto de’ Menabuoi.” Advisor: Alexander Nagel

Samuel Delehanty Omans, El Lissitzky: Architecture as Spatial Form, 1910–1939. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen

Ksenia Michajlovna Soboleva, Fragments: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Identity in the United States, 1986-1996. Advisors: Christine Poggi and Edward J. Sullivan

2020

Emily Joan Bauman, Performance and Video Work of Bruce Nauman, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley. Advisor: Thomas Crow

Brian Bentley, Pop Artists of Underdevelopment: 1960s Brazilian New Objectivity. Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan

Alexander Bigman, Specters of Fascism in Post-Conceptual Art, 1974 - 1984. Advisor: Robert Slifkin.

Rachel Boate, Embodied Abstraction: The Crisis of Representation in 1930s France. Advisor: Thomas Crow

Ami Brett, Alvin Lustig’s Graphic Designs for Reform: 1938–1955. Advisor: Thomas Crow

Jordan Famularo, Gems and the Media of Italian Art, ca. 1450-ca. 1550. Advisor: Alexander Nagel

Julia Feldman, Charles Simonds and the 1970s. Advisor: Thomas Crow

Elizabeth Frasco, American Women Artists of the New Deal and Mexico, 1934-1943. Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan

Madeleine Glennon, Medusa in Context: Mythological and Sensorial Connections of the Gorgon. Advisor: Clemente Marconi

Marina Kliger, ‘Une Histoire Particulière’: The Troubadour Style and Gendered Historical Consciousness in Early-Nineteenth-Century France. Advisors: Thomas Crow and Meredith Martin

Sana Mirza, An African Scriptorium? The Qurʾans of Harar and Their Globalizing Milieu. Advisor: Finbarr Barry Flood

Antonia Pocock, The Heartland of Pop: Claes Oldenburg and Jeff Koons in Chicago. Advisor: Thomas Crow

Susanne Figner-Ruembeli, Art as Tragicomedy: Martin Kippenberger and the End of the Avant-Garde. Advisor: Thomas Crow