Recent Dissertations
- 2024
- Erin Dusza- Art, Historicism, and Nostalgia in the Creation of Czechoslovak National Identity
- 2023
- Erin Hennessey - Inventing the Pictorial Landmark: The Schongauer “Death of the Virgin” and its Reception
- Kayla Lunt - Devotion and Difficulty: The Performance of the Breviary of Saint-Sépulcre
- 2022
- Hoda Nedaeifar - Iranian Documentary Photography of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) and its Artistic Legacies: Discursivity, Institutionalization, and Transfer in the Photographic Medium
- MaryClaire Pappas - Making Modern Viewers: Painting in Norway and Sweden, 1908-1918
- 2019
- Charlotte Forstall - The Roman monumental arch in topographical context (200 BCE-114 CE)
- Haohao Lu - Erotic imagery in the early modern low countries: risk, secrecy, paradox
- 2018
- Rebecca Fenton - Cloth as Conduit: aesthetics, dress, and commerce in Mande diasporas
- Maria Domene-Danés - Ar(t)chive production in post-war Lebanon
- 2017
- Hannah Edgerton - The apotheosis of the quattrocento condottiere: art, power and identity in fifteenth-century Italy
- Jessica Hurd - A material world: confluences between “contemporary” urban Dogon art and rural Dogon creative practices in Mali
- Christine Bentley - Hans Thoma and the German nation: painting and national identity in modern Germany
- Joanna Matuszak - From Red Square to Pushkin Monument: Russian performance art in public spaces in the 1990’s
- 2016
- Rebecca Wright Bilbo - Academic or industrial: educating the artist in nineteenth-century Cincinnati
- Lindsey Hansen - The bishop performed: sculpture, liturgy, episcopal identity in thirteenth-century France
- Brittany Sheldon - Visualizing culture: women’s artistry in Northeastern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso
- Stephanie Beck Cohen - The visual nation: exhibition, quilting, and cultural diplomacy in Liberia, 1847-2015
- Yasemin Gencer - Reform, secularism, and nationalism in the cartoons of the early republican period in Turkey (1923-1928)
- 2015
- Andrew Haslit - Gamblers and grifters: morality, economy, and identity in nineteenth-century American art
- Anna Goodman - Moretto da Brescia: viewing female spirituality in sixteenth-century Lombardy
- 2014
- Jennifer McComas - The politics of display: exhibiting modern German art in America, 1937-1957
- Teresa Wilkins - Ruffling feathers: Hawaiian feather Art 1770-2012
- Erin Pauwels - Sarony’s living pictures: photography, performance, and American art, 1865-1900
- Chrystine Keener - Jacopo Pontormo and the transformation of Christology in early modern Florence
- 2013
- Louise Arizzoli - James Hazen Hyde and the allegory of the four continents: a research collection for an amateur art historian
- Lauren Cordes-Tate - Pioneering identity on the frontier: images of African Americans in the West, 1840-1900
- Kitty Johnson - Aesthetics in motion: Matatu design in Nairobi
- Elizabeth McGoey - Staging modern domesticity: art and constructed interior displays in America 1925-1940
- 2012
- Heather Coffey - Images of the Prophet Muhammad in the late Medieval West from Joachim of Fiore to Dante Alighieri
- Edward Puchner - Godly fruit in the modern era: the evangelical church the African American experience and a redefinition of American folk art
- Genevieve Hill-Thomas - Faso Dan Fani: Marka textiles in Burkino Faso
- Paul Davis - A social history of painting in Bamako, Mali, 1930s-1980s
- Maria Maurer - The Palazzo del Te and the spaces of masculinity in early modern Italy
- 2011
- Erin Devine - From translation to transgression: the feminism(s) of Shirin Neshat
- Kate Lemay - Forgotten memorial: the American cemeteries in France from World War II
- Sara Mandel Picard - Defying and delineating race in antebellum New Orleans: the life and art of Jules Lion
- 2010
- Holly Silvers - Repulsive rhetoric: profanity in the visual vernacular of village churches in Romanesque Saintonge
- Nancy Palm - Thomas Cole’s Indian subjects, racial politics, and the national landscape
- Annie Loechle - Ye intruders beware: fantastical pirates in the golden age of illustration
- 2009
- Patricia Scanlan - “God-gifted girls”: women illustrators, gender, class, and commerce in American visual culture
- Henry Schilb - Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Aëres and Epitaphios: patronage and orthodox Christian identity
- Charles Stewart - Domes of Heaven: the domed basilicas of Cyprus
- Michelle Kaiserlian - Infinite transformation: the modern craze over the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- Thor Mednick - Skagen: art and national romanticism in nineteenth-century Denmark
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