Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Experiential Museum: Immersive Installation Art in the Age of Social Media, Emily Hope Anastasi
The Photogram Now and Then: An Investigation of Contemporary Photogram Practice, Susan Melissa Andreas
From the Profane to the Sacred: Modernist Christian Chapels of the Twentieth Century, Theadora Barrett
Legacies of Madness: An Exploration of the Reception of Vincent Van Gogh and Yayoi Kusama, Cemre Z. Erim
The Creative Child: Art and Playgrounds in Postwar New York, Sarah Gichan
Other Monumentality: Folk Memorials, Intimacy, and Public Lament, Gabriella Goldberg
Afterlife of a Renaissance Sculpture: Reception History of Michelangelo's Pietà, Yanhan He
Pantomimes of Power in the Court of Kulik: Zofia Kulik’s Visual Idioms of Individuality and Ideology, Maya J. Howard
Painting a Modern India: F.N. Souza, M.F. Husain, & Artistic Identity After Independence, Shay Afsheen Kothari
Youtube: Theater for Gen Z’s Hyperreality, Marina E. Laprade
“You Don’t Have To Go All The Way To Africa To See African Art”: Nelson Rockefeller, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Michael C. Rockefeller Wing,” & African Arts, Michelle Cecelia Pendergast
Can You See It?: Providing Visual Arts Access to Audiences with Visual Impairment and Blindness, Rowan A. Puig Davis
Embedded: The Bed as an Art Object, Maya Annika Teich
With Love to the Everyday Miracle, Victoria Iris Wayland
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Cedar Hill: A Case Study in Preservation and Education in a Digital World, Lin Barnett
Tracing Gesture, Tracing Ground: Art and Performance in "Earth-Body Rites," 1967-1975, Olivia Evelyn Berkey
Examining Evangelicalism: The Power of Signage, Painting and Sculpture in the Southern Yard Show, Flora Abigail Boatwright
Leather, Logos, and Luxury: The Critical Discourse of Street Style, Catalina Rose Bulgach
It’s Garfield’s World, We Just Live in It: An Exploration of Garfield the Cat as Icon, Money Maker, and Beast, Iris B. Engel
A History of the Brassiere, Saskia Catherine Erpf
In the Illusory Babels of Language: Contemporary Artists’ Novels, Gage Pearson Frink
Daughters of the Borderlands: A Study of Two Tejana Artists, Gabriela Garcia
"spectator sport": Black Abstraction at the Whitney Museum of Art, 1969-1971, Justin G. Gomez
Qipao and Female Fashion in Republican China and Shanghai (1912-1937): the Discovery and Expression of Individuality, Qingxuan Han
The Holistic Self: A Visual Analysis of Carl Jung's The Red Book, Emma Lindsay Klement
The Immensities of Artifacts, Harrison Kroessler
The Oriental "Other" from Nineteenth-Century French Colonialism: Delacroix and The Women of Algiers, Bingyu Lu
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
Self-Styling Impulse of Chinese Artists after the Cultural Revolution, Wenfei Song
Sanguine Salvation: Pilgrimage and Penance at the Sanctuary of Chimayo, Isabella J. Spann
Uncertain Critique: Andrea Fraser, Pierre Bourdieu, & Jacques Jacques Rancière, Aaron Thixton
The Role of the Qin in Chinese Culture and Art, Xinyue Wang
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