Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Hitler's Germania: Propaganda Writ in Stone, Aaron Mumford Boehlert
The Phallic Woman: A Reexamination of the Problematics of Women and Surrealism, Adrienne Anne Chau
From the Runway to the Museum: Commodity or Art? Fashion's Place in the Museum, Eryn Alexandra Coffield
The Resurrection of the American Road Film: An Analysis of American Honey, Caroline Lee Currin
Freedom and Constraint in the Paintings of Francisco de Goya, Kennedy Jalen Fairfax
Gender in Contemporary Iran in the Works of Abbas Kowsari, Domantas Karalius
Indeterminable Futures: Unravelling Modern Identity & National Space in PostColonial India 1947-1980, Shireen Khan
Chung Sang-hwa in the scene of Dansaekhwa, Yeonjin Lee
Portraits of the Most Sane, David Leonard Mamukelashvili
The Woodstock Artists Association: Synthesizing the Modern and Traditional, Sondra Elizabeth McGill
A Street Photographer’s Toolbox: Techniques and Technologies in 20th Century American Street Photography, Jacey Cole Mossack
After The Crash-The Ground and the Sublime in the Works of Hito Steyerl and Trevor Paglen, Niall Gabriel Murphy
Colombian Political Violence Through the Lens of Visual Metaphor: The Art of Juan Manuel Echavarría and Doris Salcedo, Olmo Luis Schnabel
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Divine Interiors: Meaning, Spirituality, and Evolution in Baptismal Ritual Space., Mirabai Dorothy Bright-Thonney
Welcome Home: Film, Feelings, and Modern Architecture of the Cold War, Grace Calderley
Impact of Ancient Chinese Painting on Contemporary Art, Yi Cheng
The Loggia: Renaissance Revival of Ancient Roman Villa Ideology as Manifest in a Liminal Space, John Francisco Cherichello
Naughty and Nice: A Study of Lingerie and its Contradictory Symbolism, from Eve to the Age of Madonna, Mary-Elizabeth Clair
Chinese and Japanese Literati Painting: Analysis and Contrasts in Japanese Bunjinga Paintings, Qun Dai
What is Our Electricity? A Look Into the Use of Electrical Cords as Media, Claudine Pascale Elysee
Architectural Constructions of Memory & the Ruin in Post-1989 Berlin, Gilda Hanna Gross
Untitled (The Language of Absence in Minimalist Art), Hannah Sage Kay
Surface Depth: Materiality, Craft, and Identity in Sixties American Art., Willem Conrad Koppel
Modern Light and Sensibility: Creating a Danish Identity Through Architecture, Carly Rose Krim
Warhol’s Hustler and Queen Assembly Line: Deconstructing Factory Produced Genders and Their Roles in Contemporary Queer Culture, Connor Matthew Marley
Points of Access: An Exploration in the Islamic State's Digital Media Campaign, Ivy Nallo
Rites of the Concrete Jungle: Pre-Columbian Aesthetics in Esoteric Visual Culture, John Joseph Ohrenberger
Expressionist Medievalism: Ernst Barlach and Medieval Art, Philip Daniel Poznansky
Isolating The Sky, Kellan Malmberg Rohde
Recognizing the Parallels Between Fashion and Art: The Designs of Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent and Rei Kawakubo, Alexa S. Runsdorf
The Curation of Identity: Aesthetics of National Division in German Art during the 1950s, Isabelle Woods Rust
The Significance of Female Attire as Shown in Florentine Portraiture of the Quattrocento to the Cinquecento, Morgan Lee Schuler
Regarding Helen: Helen of Troy in Homer and on Vases, Alexandra Paige Sherlock
Raphael's Tapestries: Religion and Rivalry, Isabelle Wilder Turgeon
Smile with Christ: An Insight into Chinese Christianity Through the Work of Yue Minjun, Dominic Markus Trevor Wenxuan Yang
The Evolution and Influence of Art in Scientific Illustration, Ahsiya Rebecca Zurita
Projects from 2015
Salvador Dali and the Cult of Personality: The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, Laura Elizabeth Begley
A Struggle for Supremacy: Decoding the Political Agendas of Strasbourg Cathedral’s Medieval Portals, Sally Rowland Chakwin
Counter Culture: Danger, Vanity, and the Weekend, Bruno G. DiCorcia
Álvaro Siza's Piscinas das Marés: An Analytical Reconfiguration of Portuguese National Identity and Modern Sacred Space, Michaela Friedberg
Queen, Mother and Spouse: Shifting Theological Emphasis on the Virgin Mary in Relation to the Papal Politics of Medieval Marian Apse Mosaics in Rome, Shelby Key Garcia
Primary Functions: Alan Saret’s Installation for Man, Emma Kalafa Gunuey
Rome Repurposed: The Portrayal of the Pantheon in Eighteenth-Century Consumer Culture, Chiara Sylvia Harrison Lambe
Walls Have Ears but They Also Speak –A comparative study of two playgrounds, Anna Hirson-Sagalyn
Constructions of Imaginary Nations, Gabriel Kilongo
Fruit, Flowers, and Fungi: Three Generations of Women at the Montgomery Place Gardens, Cody Elizabeth Lee
Hannah Wilke: A Work of Art, Quinn Moreland
The Judson Memorial Church and the Birth of Postmodern Performance Art, Kai Ducote Mote
It’s Beautiful Elsewhere and I Am Here: Exploring the Utopian Impulse in Contemporary Video Art, Jake Simon Nadrich
Defining a Legacy: The Fine Arts Palace of St. Louis's 1904 World's Fair and the Gateway Arch, Hallie Anne Nolan
Jean Leon Gerome: The Debated Dark Facets of a Spectacular Artist, Alix Peronnet
Dialectics of Occlusion: The Mundaneum at Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut, Alana Shaw
The Truth Must Also Be Beautiful: Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Joseph Beuys, Hans Haacke, and Thomas Hirschhorn, Maxwell Jasper Taylor-Milner
Artist Books in The Postwar Era: Expanding Boundaries of Self, Subject and Culture, Maxwell Schatz Tolleson
Hon Is Where The Art Is: The Spectator's Role in the History of Hon - En Katedral, Nicolas William Viollet
Female Patronage and Expatriate Influence in Mexican Folk Art, Julia Lea Vunderink
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Iranian Modernism: The Saqqakhaneh Movement and Its Politics, Seyedeh Yasaman Ahrari
CADY NOLAND: A Study On Themes, from her 1990 show at Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Dylan T. A. Brant
Now You See Me, Now You See Me: Photography and Privacy Rights in the Work of Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Arne Svenson, Lili Anna Chemla
The Viewing Self: A Reflection on Mirrors as Medium from the 1960s to the Present, Claire H. Demere
The Shift in Fashion Photography: A Fantasy Based in Reality, Kalena Michiko Fujii
The Artist In Context: Exploring the Curatorial Treatment of Agnes Martin, Phoebe Stewart Herland
Caravaggio, Paleo-Christian Antiquarian: Three Paintings and their Oratorian Influences, Erica Anne Imbasciani
Rethinking the Exhibition Experience, Alexandre Khondji
Misplaced Aesthetics at Pruitt-Igoe: The Application of Modernism in the Context of American Poverty, Charlotte Mack Barrett
The Stalinist Dreamscape: Soviet Political Posters, 1934-1941, Abraham Isaac Rosenthal
Jugend Stil: Reassembling Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Forgotten Works, Elizabeth Ann Scher
Contemplating a Hyphenated Identity: An Examination of Winold Reiss’ "The Months", Emma Cecelia Weinman
Looking Back at Modernity: The Reinvention of Antiquity As Seen Through Three Italian Wall Paintings, Jean Wong
Research on The Present Situation and Its Development of China's Beijing 798 Art District, Bingwen Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Wallflower Redux: Uncovering the Symbolism of Wallpaper in Three Historic Hudson Valley Villas, Farr Osborne Bryant
Luis Buñuel's Surrealist Dinner Parties, Julia Canning Carter
'It Is in the Desert that Miracles Happen': Contrasting Experiences of Spirituality at Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels and Donald Judd's Marfa, Lolita Rose Cros
Atomic Bodies..., Ashley Danielle Duhrkoop
"Other"-hood and Brotherhood: Representations of Subculture, Masculinity, and the Homoerotic in Bruce Davidson's Brooklyn Gang, Lillian Jane Dumont
ANTONY(M), Alison Garner
“Living Tableaux of Queerness”: The Living Middle Eastern Displays of the World’s Columbian Exposition, Kelsey Savannah Hoffman
Regarding the Uncertainty of Our Hyphens: Locating Hybridity in the Imaginary Landscapes of Do-Ho Suh, Jin-woo Jun
Deconstructing Monuments: Rachel Harrison and Mike Kelley's Engagement with the Subjectile, Sophia Leigh Kay
The Village as Utopia, Sarah Biel Lettiere
Crossing in Style: Interwar Ocean Liner Design, Colin Liam McFadden
Mexico Through the Eyes of Marion Greenwood, Aline Menendez
Clarence John Laughlin: The Southern Gothic in Photography, Emma Rose Pelman
Art and Education: America's Struggle to Define the Role of the Arts in the Public Sphere, Charlotte Hyde Petty
Man’s Answer to Nature’s Call: The Private Space of the Public Restroom, Bianca Beatrice Ryseck
From Muse to Musician: Portraits of Women and Music at the Turn of the 20th Century, Emma Cristine Schmiedecke
Conception, Conversion, Curation: Agency and Identity in the History of the Julia Flavia Intaglio, Frances Laville St. Amant
A Negress of Noteworthy Talent: Kara Walker's Alternate Histories of the American South, Deidre Andrea Thompson
Illuminating the Grail: Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval and Its Continuations, Marissa Marcoux Unger
Evolving Artist/Audience Agency in the Trajectory of Feminist Performance Art: Carolee Schneemann’s Interior Scroll, Annie Sprinkle’s Post-Porn Modernist, and Narcissister’s Narcissister is You, Rebecca Ashley Van Kollenburg
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Four New /Corners/ : Artists Approaching the Intersection, Lilah Esther Anderson
Ryan Trecartin Dismantles the Apparatus of Mastery, James Asheton Bayard
Oh My Gouache: A Reconsideration of Alexander Calder's Opaque Watercolors, Emanuela Sophia Del Peschio
David Wojnarowicz and the Art Love/Hate Triangle: Artists, Art Institutions and the Right Wing, Amy Freeman
The Art of Urban Exploration: A Means of Processing Alienation and Intimacy with the Built Environment, Anatole Sade Alexander Hocek
Film Among the Arts: Understanding the History of Film through Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard, Lily Kaminsky
Giving Form to the Formless: Gutai's Critical Reception in America, Fiona M. Laugharn
"Strong in Our Weakness", Patricia Manos
Modern Man, Old Master: World War I Exposed in Otto Dix's Der Krieg Triptych, Nicole Minatel