2012
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