Dissertations from 2024
A Municipal Modernity: Women, Architecture, and Public Health in Working-Class New York, 1913–1950, Jessica Fletcher
Movimento de Arte Pornô (1980–84): Poetry, Performance, and Pansexuality, Tie Jojima
Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857–1914, Jessica Larson
Without Us There Is No Britain: Black British Photography and Film Networks, 1950-1989, Maria T. Quinata
Dissertations from 2023
The Gilded Tropics: Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent in Florida, 1886-1917, Theodore W. Barrow
Flamboyant Abundance: Performing Queer Maximalism, 1960–1990, Jack Owen Crawford
"A Decorator in the Best Sense": Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, the Fabric Curtain Partition, and the Articulation of the German Modern Interior, Marianne E. Eggler-Gerozissis
From Allegory to Revolution: The Inca Empire in the Eighteenth-Century French Imagination, Agnieszka A. Ficek
“Delicious Libation”: The Art of the Coffee Trade from Brazil to the United States, 1797-1888, Caroline L. Gillaspie
Creative Figures: Portraiture and the Making of the Modern American Artist, 1918-1930, Sasha Nicholas
Raphael Montañez Ortiz and Alternative Art Spaces, 1966–1971: From Repulsion to Exaltation, Ana Cristina Perry
Styling Sweatshops: Seamstress Imagery, Industrial Capitalism, and Nationalist Agendas in Nineteenth-Century Europe and the United States, Alice J. Walkiewicz
Dissertations from 2022
Pop/Art: The Birth of Underground Music and the British Art School, 1960–1980, Andrew Cappetta
After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem in the 1960s, Maya Harakawa
Cultural Predicaments: Neorealism in The Netherlands, 1927–1945, Stephanie Huber
Hellenikotita — Greekness: Constructing Greek Genre Painting, Visualizing National Identity, 1850–1900, Olga Zaferatos Karras
Contextualizing Britain’s Holocaust Memorial and Museums: Form, Content, and Politics, Rebecca D. Pollack
The Beehive, the Favela, the Castle, and the Ministry: Race and Modern Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, 1811–1945, Luisa Valle
Globalism and Identity in Taiwanese Contemporary Art, 1978–2009, Chu-Chiun Wei
Dissertations from 2021
Europ: Expanded Cinema, Projection and the Film Co-op in Western Europe, 1966–1979, Drew E. Bucilla
Inevitable Associations: Art, Institution, and Cultural Intersection in Los Angeles, 1973–1988, Liz Hirsch
Xanthus Smith: Marine Painting and Nationhood, Eva C. McGraw
Art After Dark: Economies of Performance, New York City 1978–1988, Meredith Mowder
The Integration of Art, Architecture, and Identity: Alfred Kastner, Louis Kahn, and Ben Shahn at Jersey Homesteads, Daniel S. Palmer
The Making of Transpacific Video Art, 1966–1988, Haeyun Park
The U.S.–Mexican War: Visualizing Contested Spaces from Parlor to Battlefield, Erika Pazian
After Abstract Expressionism: Reconsidering the “Death of Painting” at Midcentury, Natasha Roje
The Painter and His Poets: Paul Gauguin and Interartistic Exchange, Aaron Slodounik
Compromised Values: Charlotte Posenenske, 1966–Present, Ian Wallace
Dissertations from 2020
Traditions and Transformations in the Work of Adál: Surrealism, El sainete, and Spanglish, Margarita J. Aguilar
Norman Lewis: Linearity, Politics, and Pedagogy in His Abstract Expressionism, 1946–1964, Andrianna T. Campbell-LaFleur
The Art of Opacity: Guy de Cointet in L.A., Media Farzin
Northwest Coast Native Art Beyond Revival, 1962–1992, Christopher T. Green
Staging the Modern, Building the Nation: Exhibiting Israeli Art, 1939–1965, Chelsea Haines
Labor and the Picturesque: Photography, Propaganda, and the Tea Trade in Colonial India and Sri Lanka, 1880–1914, Leila Anne Harris
The International Rise of Afro-Brazilian Modernism in the Age of African Decolonization and Black Power, Abigail Lapin Dardashti
Accomplices in Art: The Expansion of Authorship in the 1970s and '80s, Sydney Stutterheim
The “Olympiad of Photography”: FIAP and the Global Photo-Club Culture, 1950–1965, Alise Tifentale
Dissertations from 2019
A Series of Acts that Disappear: The Valparaíso School’s Ephemeral Architectures, 1952–1982, Elizabeth Rose Donato
Added Interpretive Centers at U.S. War Memorials and the Reframing of National History, Jennifer K. Favorite
Stills of Passage: Photography and Migration in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1978-1992, Nadiah Rivera Fellah
Arts et Métiers PHOTO-Graphiques: The Quest for Identity in French Photography between the Two World Wars, Yusuke Isotani
Crossing the Atlantic: Italians in Argentina and the Making of a National Culture, 1880–1930, Lauren A. Kaplan
The Evolution of the Centaur in Italian Renaissance Art: Monster, Healer, Mentor, and Constellation, Trinity Martinez
Weaving Modern Forms: Fiber Design in the United States, 1939–1959, Sarah Mills
The "I" of the Artist-Curator, Natalie Musteata
Ray Johnson: Collage as Networked "Correspondance", Gillian Pistell
Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1928–1933, Lauren Rosati
Minor Forms, Dismantled Norms: Mediums of Modernism in Pakistan, Gemma Sharpe
Gendered Subjectivity and Resistance: Brazilian Women’s Performance-for-Camera, 1973–1982, Gillian Sneed
Framing the City: Photography and the Construction of São Paulo, 1930–1955, Danielle J. Stewart
Between the Cracks: From Squatting to Tactical Media Art in the Netherlands, 1979–1993, Amanda S. Wasielewski
Dissertations from 2018
Writing with Light: Cameraless Photography and Its Narrative in the 1920s, Karen K. Barber
Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art, Elizabeth Sarah Berkowitz
The Labyrinth and the Cave: Archaic Forms in Art and Architecture of Europe, 1952–1972, Paula Burleigh
The South Korean “Meta-Avant-Garde,” 1961–1993: Subterfuge as Radical Agency, Sooran Choi
Creating 1968: Art, Architecture, and the Afterlives of the Mexican Student Movement, Mya B. Dosch
Cellist, Catalyst, Collaborator: The Work of Charlotte Moorman, Saisha Grayson
Modern Arts and Pueblo Traditions in Santa Fe, 1909–1931, Elizabeth S. Hawley
Women’s Suffrage in American Art: Recovering Forgotten Contexts, 1900-1920, Elsie Y. Heung
Rising Above the Faithful: Monumental Ceiling Crosses in Byzantine Cappadocia, Alice Lynn McMichael
Visualizing Knowledge in the Illuminated Manuscripts of the Breviari d’amor, Joy Partridge
Lauretta Vinciarelli in Context: Transatlantic Dialogues in Architecture, Art, Pedagogy, and Theory, 1968-2007, Rebecca Siefert
Prints on Display: Exhibitions of Etching and Engraving in England, 1770s-1858, Nicole Simpson
Dissertations from 2017
Open Works: Between the Programmed and the Free, Art in Italy 1962 to 1972, Lindsay A. Caplan
I. M. Pei, William Zeckendorf, and the Architecture of Urban Renewal, Marci M. Clark
Posthumanist Animals in Art: France and Belgium, 1972-87, Arnaud Gerspacher
On London Ground: The Landscape Paintings of Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, Lee Hallman
Joseph Beuys and Social Sculpture in the United States, Cara M. Jordan
Claude III Audran: Ornemaniste of the Rococo Style, Barbara Laux
Exhibitions of Outsider Art Since 1947, Christina McCollum
Mónica Mayer: Translocality and the Development of Feminist Art in Contemporary Mexico, Alberto McKelligan Hernandez
Merchandise, Promotion, and Accessibility: Keith Haring’s Pop Shop, Amy L. Raffel
Ludic Conceptualism: Art and Play in the Netherlands, 1959 to 1975, Janna Therese Schoenberger
Communicationists and Un-Artists: Pedagogical Experiments in California, 1966-1974, Hallie Rose Scott
Foreign-Born Artists Making “American” Pictures: The Immigrant Experience and the Art of the United States, 1819–1893, Whitney Thompson
Left and Right: Politics and Images of Motherhood in Weimar Germany, Michelle L. Vangen
From Design to Completion: The Transformation of U.S. War Memorials on the National Mall, Sara Jane Weintraub
Dissertations from 2016
Export / Import: The Promotion of Contemporary Italian Art in the United States, 1935–1969, Raffaele Bedarida
The Emergence of the Bird in Andean Paracas Art. c. 900 BCE - 200 CE, Mary B. Brown
The Moving Image in Public Art: U.S. and U.K., 1980–Present, Annie Dell'Aria
Modernism with a Human Face: Synthesis of Art and Architecture in Eastern Europe, 1954-1958, Nikolaos Drosos
Building in Public: Critical Reconstruction and the Rebuilding of Berlin after 1990, Naraelle Hohensee
The Bauhaus Wall Painting Workshop: Mural Painting to Wallpapering, Art to Product, Morgan Ridler
Provisional Capital: National and Urban Identity in the Architecture and Planning of Bonn, 1949-1979, Samuel L. Sadow
Developing Italy: Photography and National Identity during the Risorgimento, 1839-1859, Beth Saunders
The Photographic Universe: Vilém Flusser’s Theories of Photography, Media, and Digital Culture, Martha Schwendener
Finish Fetish: Art, Artists, and Alter Egos in Los Angeles of the 1960s, Monica Steinberg
Nature and Nostalgia in the Art of Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899), Shannon Vittoria
Dissertations from 2015
On the Fringe of Italian Fascism: An Examination of the Relationship between Vinicio Paladini and the Soviet Avant-Garde, Christina Brungardt
Let The Record Show: Mapping Queer Art and Activism in New York City, 1986-1995, Tara Jean-Kelly Burk
Maude I. Kerns: Overlapping Interpretations of Art and Pedagogy in the Northwest and Along the Pacific Coast, 1890–1932, Mary Helen Burnham
Contemporary Art and Internationalism at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1952–1988, Rachel Chatalbash
Los Grupos and the Art of Intervention in 1960s and 1970s Mexico, Arden Decker
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans: The Evolution of a Forgotten Memorial, Sheila Gerami
Mobilizing The Collective: Helhesten And The Danish Avant-Garde, 1934-1946, Kerry Greaves
Death and Photography in East Asia: Funerary Use of Portrait Photography, Jeehey Kim
Native American Chic: The Marketing Of Native Americans In New York Between The World Wars, Emily Schuchardt Navratil