2012
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
Carl Akeley's African Hall of Mammals: Reanimating Life and the Popularization of Natural History at the American Museum, Elizabeth Erin Morrel
Submission o Salvation: Deconstructing the Body and the Inanimate in the Photography of Jimmy DeSana, Anna Page Nadin
Dead in the Water: The Representation of Mermaids in Symbolist Art, Miriam Natis
The Happiest Place on Earth: A Disneyland Retrospective Through the Postcard, Madeleine Nimoy
"Dress Becomes Body Becomes Dress": The Work and Influence of Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons, Alexander Haynes O'Kane
Resurrection and Reconstruction: Visions of Vézelay During the 13th, 19th, 21st Centuries, Lindsay Paige Pike
The Age of Tears: Rogier van der Weyden's "Descent from the Cross" and its Lachrymose Contexts, Christopher Richards
The Origins and Evolutions of Avalokiteshvara Through Images in India, Nepal and Tibet, Tamding Sangmo
Patterning the Past: Arthur Szyk’s Kaleidoscopic Re-Imagination of Historical Identity, Monica Semczyk
'Digging in the Garden is Not Meaningless Work': Alan Sonfist's Time Landscape and Walter De Maria's New York Earth Room, Katherine Wallace Swenson
Pop Culture Catholicism: The Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, and Other Superstars of the transición española, Madeline Turner
“‘Outta My Way, Homes’: Domestic Discontent in NYC’s Graffiti Culture, ca. 1973”, Jeremy Ulman
New Wilderness, Madeline Williamson
Flying Eagle---The Eagle Images and Legends Among the Nomadic Groups of Northern China, Tian Xu
2011
The Light and the Glass: An exploration of contemporary photographers using antiquarian processes., Jennifer K. Barry
DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR: ANALYZING DUALITIES OF GLITTER IN CONTEMPORARY ART, Hannah Shaw Becker
Unrealized Visions: The Architectural Document as Record of Rupture, Julia C. Borden
Perpetual Institutionalization: The Impossibility of Institutional Critique in the 2010 Taipei Biennial, Peter J. Christian
Modernity and Marginality: Scandinavian Landscape Painting, 1880-1895, Gabriella M. Cipolla
Embodying Indian Culture in the Feminine Ideal, Isabelle Coler
The Space Between: Liminality in the Art of Ana Mendieta, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Manuel Piña Baldoquín, Caroline S. Hazzard
Ties that Bind: The Regulatory Nature of Women's Dress in Britain 1870-1939, Karen Johnson
Carolingian Medieval Manuscripts: Reception and Controversies Surrounding the Ebbo Gospels and Utrecht Psalter, Madeleine Kiwak
The Narkomfin Building: Housing the Transitional Ideal, Stefan Klecheski
The American Frame Revolution: Frames in the Modern Era, 1865-1950, Sara Kornhauser
Strange and Wayward Fancies: Desire, Vision, and Intervention in the Photographic Practice of F. Holland Day, Daniel O. Peacock
Attendance Mandatory But Not Required, Allison E. Simpson
Maya Lin: Recognizing People. Inspiring Greatness., Dean C. Singleton
Sites of Resistance/Sights of Utopia: A Look At New Queer Art Through Collective Eyes, Marlies Staples
Pedroland/Fantasyland: The Construction of Mexico at South of the Border and EPCOT's Mexico Pavilion, Nicole V. Stein
Thelma Golden: from Black to Post-Black, Kara N. Swami
'Digging in the Garden is not Meaningless Work': Alan Sonfist's Time Landscape and Walter De Maria's New York Earth Room, Katherine W. Swenson
Misguided Tours from the Museum to the Workshop: Oaxacan Folk Art, Tourism, and the Modern Search for Authenticity, Mary Alex Tronstad
Monuments and Non.u.ments, Emma Whisler
2010
Miguel Calderon: Below the Belt and Across the Border, Sarah Ashcroft
The Big Chill: Three Contemporary Artists Confront Death, Alison Chemla
Durham Cathedral: Reevaluating the Proto-Gothic Label, Emma Ciccarelli
Sight/Site: Three Photographic Views of the White House Ruins at Canyon de Chelly, Mae Colburn
The Parthenon And National Identity in Greece, Logan Gaisford
The Future to Behold: Science Fiction Cover Art from Paul to Powers, Nick Gorski
Synthetic Spaces: Landscapes, Art-Objects, and Tourism, Francesca Gunn
Looking at Looking: Spectator as Art in Honoré Daumier and Thomas Struth, Simone Krug
The Impossibility of Painterly Figuration, Bodhi Landa
Reading the Rooms: An Examination of the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, Tess Landon
4chan and Internet Folk Art, John Loonam
The Biron Pietà: Visual Form, Theological Content, and Devotional Function, Erin Maglaque
Painting The In-Between: The Elision of Interior and Exterior in the Work of Johannes Vermeer, Kelsey Merriam
Reconstructing the Spirit: The Religious Vernacular Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan & Nellie Mae Rowe, Katelin Sheffield
Art in Vacant Spaces: A Proposal to Transform Downtown Tacoma's Unused Places into Temporary Cultural Sites, Rebecca Solverson
Seeing the Sound: Album Art, Rock Photography and the Visual Phenomenon of Rock and Roll, Cora Sugarman
2009
The Brilliant Locus: An Exploration of Philosophical Illumination in Sir John Soane's Museum, Lowell Clare
Mike Kelley Plays With Toys: The Uncanny in the Everday, Katherine Ferguson
Metropolis Mori: Sex and Death in Otto Dix's Großstadt-Triptychon, Sara Frier
The Iconography of Michelangelo's St. Matthew, Alyssa Giangregorio
Relational Aesthetics: A Survey and Critique of Bourriaud's Model of Art Since the Early 1990s, Paris lonescu
Chinese Bodies in Spectacle: The Performing Masses In Beijing's Opening Ceremony of the 29th Olympiad, Quinby McLellan
Artistic Supremacy and the Pursuit of Power: The Mutually Beneficial Relationship of King Henry VIII and his Court Artist, Hans Holbein the Younger, Elizabeth Mullen
"Paper Bullets:" World War I Posters and America's Visual Language of War, Sarah Paden
Down Through the Sediment and Upward Towards Healing: Anselm Kiefer and the Rebirth of History Painting, Rebeka Radna
Visual Innuendoes: A Feminist Exploration of Paintings by Lisa Yuskavage, Elizabeth Rosenfield
From the Street to the Studio: Graffiti in New York City During the 1970's and 80's, Abigail Schwartz
Play Grounded, Jonathan Sutak
Nineteenth-Century Native American Souvenir Art: Cultural Exchange at Niagara Falls, Rosemary Winter
2008
Sniffing Glue vs. No Future: The Visual Culture of Punk in the US and UK, Camilla Aikin
Museum Poetics of Jurassic Technology, Erin Bagley
Valentino a Roma: The Mythology of Rome and The Shaping of Italy's National Identity, Julia Carrozzini
Gluttonous, Scorched, and Riotous Flocks: Navigating American Identity through the Bird Art of Walton Ford and John James Audubon, Jennifer Caster
Silent Sitters: The Female Portrait Genre in Renaissance Florence and the Representations of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni, Olivia Cohen
'All the mutilated blocks of art:' The Rhetoric of the Elgin Marbles, Sarah Kogan
Michelangelo's Poesie, Gogo Lidz
Illusions of Submersion: Nature and Artifice in the Public Aquarium, Mathew Mauricio
THE THRILL OF VICTORY, THE AGONY OF DEFEAT: AN ANALYSIS OF MICHELANGELO'S VICTORY GROUP, Christopher McCloskey
Modern National Identity, Shintō Aesthetics, and the Architecture of Kenzō Tange, Georgia Muenster
Systems in Crisis: An Encyclopedi a of Fashionabl e Though t, Daniel Mullin
Sculpture and Idolatry in Michelangelo's Brazen Serpent, Jacleen Simons
Wealth and Piety: A Contextual Analysis of Jan van Eyck's Rolin Madonna, Jessica Strongin
Praxis Makes Product: Contemporary Collectivist Praxis, Dialogical Space, and Alternative Economies, Leah Whitman-Salkin
Vistas of Modernity: Depictions of New York City in Depression-era Murals, Max Yeston
2007
Make War, Not Love: National Gender Identity through the Power and Evolution of the Pin-up in American Culture from 1939-1959, Laura Jackman
STRUCTURES OF LIBERATION, Joseph Murray