Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Cedar Hill: A Case Study in Preservation and Education in a Digital World, Lin Barnett
Leather, Logos, and Luxury: The Critical Discourse of Street Style, Catalina Rose Bulgach
In the Illusory Babels of Language: Contemporary Artists’ Novels, Gage Pearson Frink
"spectator sport": Black Abstraction at the Whitney Museum of Art, 1969-1971, Justin G. Gomez
The Holistic Self: A Visual Analysis of Carl Jung's The Red Book, Emma Lindsay Klement
The Immensities of Artifacts, Harrison Kroessler
Botticelli's Dancing Angels: Shaping Space in the Celestial Realm, Ariel Gillian Raine Manwiller
The Art of Inclusion, Black Art and (Mis)representation: Repainting Black Expression, Kelli Jai McKinney
From the Church of Disco to Waterfront Ruins: An Analysis of Gay Space, Liam Nolan
On the Mahaparinirvana Mural in Mogao Cave 428, Tangkangfu Shao
Sanguine Salvation: Pilgrimage and Penance at the Sanctuary of Chimayo, Isabella J. Spann
Uncertain Critique: Andrea Fraser, Pierre Bourdieu, & Jacques Jacques Rancière, Aaron Thixton
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Hazel Larsen Archer and Photography at Black Mountain College, 1933 - 1957, Lucy Jean Atkinson
She Has Good Jeans: A History of Denim as Womenswear, Marisa S. Bach
Gentile da Fabriano's Adoration of the Magi: Iconographic Influences of Decorative Arts from the Islamic World, Ruby Brooke
Metaphors, Mysticism, and Mathematics: The Life and Works of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Reza Daftarian
Interview Magazine: Art & Fame, Josephine G. Danziger
"Embracing a Rosebush": The Reception of Joan Mitchell, Gracie Elliot Hadland
The Music Lesson: An Analysis of Two Works from Dutch Seventeenth Century, Valory Hight
Homo Ludens: Play, Subversion, and the Unfinished Work of Constant’s New Babylon, Kristen Lee Kubecka
The Affective Potential of Formal Play: Camp Sensibility and Dark Humor in AIDS Activist Video, Mia Lotan
The Illustrated Masterpiece: Teaching the Artist Biography to Elementary School Children Using the Illustrations in Picture Books, Sophie M. Mueller
Prosthetic Fantasies: Morton Bartlett, Hans Bellmer, and Engaging the Artificial Body, Sophia O'Brien-Udry
Cuban Art in the 1980s, Rebecca Q. Sell
East Meets West: A Comparative Study On the Origin of Landscape Depiction, Conghao Tian
"Poetry is Not a Luxury:" Dis-ing Self, Dis-ing Archive, Ehm West
Collection Ontogenesis: Following the Nascence and Maturation of the Montgomery Place Archive, 1802 - 2018, Miranda Fey Whitus
Something More Real than Art: Homelessness and Alternative Tactics of Public Address, New York, 1989, Raphael Wolf
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