2024
A World of Artifice: James McNeill Whistler's Theatrical Self-Fashioning, Dawson Escott
The Roots and Evolution of the Indigenous Art of the Pennsylvania Dutch: Fraktur, Barn Stars, and Hex Signs, Ella Daisy Foucault
Identity Through Jewelry: Study Case of the Burial Jewelry of the Necropolis in Dura-Europos, Helena H. Grabowska
Lines and Spirits: Tracing Georgia O’Keeffe’s Artistic Path through Dow and Kandinsky, Surui Hu
Innovation, Liberation, and Agency in the Outsider Visionary Art of James Hampton and Purvis Young, Griffin J. Joerger
Mental Health, Art, Identity, And Self-Expression: Words I Know, and, How Making Art Heals, Elsa M. Joiner
Myths, Misogyny, and Mixed Reviews: The Arts & Craftiness of Three Pre-Raphaelite Women, Julia Eleanora McNulty
Schoolgirls and Cyborgs: The Destruction of Feminine Forms, Ayanna Elisa Ann Perez
The Revolutions to Come: Mexican Artists, Institutions, and Ideas, 1897–1920, Oskar A. Pezalla-Granlund
From the Ground Up: A Look Into People Powered Memorials, Grace Schnapf
From the Ground Up: A Look Into People Powered Memorials, Grace Frances Schnapf
The Great Social Evil: Images of Fallen Women in Victorian England, Basha Yonit Shapiro
The Great Social Evil: Images of Fallen Women in Victorian England, Basha Yonit Shapiro
Four Places on the Van Gogh Trail: A Pilgrimage through The Hague, Nuenen, Antwerp & Paris, Josephine Lee Smith
2023
Tracing Georgian Nationalism in Soviet Architecture, Nino Bakhtadze
What’s The Alternative: Media, Community, and Subversion in Barbara Ess’s Just Another Asshole, Ray Camp
Kitchen Rag: Spaces of Food, Memory and Conviviality in Modern and Contemporary Art, Emma Deutsch
Futurism in the City of the Future: Marinetti’s Avant-Garde in New York 1909-1930, Giovanni Angelo Falcone
Golden Temptresses: The Petrifying Beauty of Pre-Raphaelite Women, Zoe Julienne Claire Manwiller
From Mouth to Mind: A Close Examination of Two Carved Boxwood Peapods Through Print, Paint, and Sculpture & References to Fertility, Amanda Jane Mason
The Familiarity of Hapticity Overrides the Rationality of Sight: 'Hair Aesthetics' and Photographic Seeing, Diana Ferrell McCready
The Synthetic Uncanny: Grotesque Aesthetics in Artificial Intelligence Art, Michael William Melchiondo
Andy & Edie, Warhol & Sedgwick, Sabine Paris
Infinity on Trial: Michael Heizer and the Post-War American Avant-Garde, George Fleming Sutton
2022
Mary T. Smith in the Margins: Analyzing the Oppressive Parameters of Outsider Art, Kimbrielle Bria Boult
In Defense of “Cheap Architecture”, Henry Francis Farnum
Reclaiming the Self After Trauma: Another Look at Yoko Ono's Body of Work, Emmie E. Foster
The Public Bathroom: Tracing a History of Architectural Symbolism and Social Control, Mayim Frieden
The Artist's Diary, Anamae Gilroy
The Birth of the Bicycle: The Development, Aesthetic form, and Social Attitude Towards the Velocipede of the 19th Century, Andrew Cleveland Honeycutt
Violence, Healing, and the Body in the Work of Ana Mendieta and Nancy Spero, Violet Harmony King
Artists as Activists: Exploring The Significance of Location in Protest Art, Emma Livingston
"The Boy Who Lived, Come to Die:" A Visual Tradition of Medieval Death in the Harry Potter Films, Sydney H. Mello
The Queen’s Candy: Identity Building through Sofia Coppola’s film Marie Antoinette, Sofia M. Mozo-Borland
9/11: News Media as Prism, Luka L. Murro
Sisterhood: : Locating the Photography of Carrie Mae Weems, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Deana Lawson Within a Rhizome of Black Feminist Discourse, Taylor Fama Ndiaye
"The Tyranny of Ancient over Modern" German Philhellenism and Modern Greek Painting in Post-Ottoman Greece, Nicole M. Parides
Growing In Glamor: Nearly Lost Stories of Black Women Claiming Autonomy Through Fashion in Early Twentieth Century New York, Gabrielle Alexis Penn
“The World is a Garden for the State to Master”: The Evolution of the Chahar Bagh from Achaemenid Persia to Mughal India, Avery Sicular
The Survival of the Hakka Culture in Contemporary Arts, Sibei Wang
Feminine Monstrosity: Medusa Through the Ages, Meredith Kate Wolkom
"A Living Harmony of Tones": Matisse, Painting, and Music, Yiran Yao
Transformation of Chinese Culture in Twentieth-Century Art A Brief History: Song Dong and Wenda Gu, Sunyue Zhou
2021
(Altar)making a Sacred Latinx Space, Tatiana Pamela Alfaro
Martin Margiela and the Japanese Designers: An Exploration of Cultural Exchange Through Fashion, Bechet Dumaine Allen
From the traditional national style to the artistic development of contemporary traditional art, Mengshen Li
Architecture Obscura: The Metaphysical World of Remedios Varo, Julianna E. H. Preston
The Impact of Dunhuang Murals on Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art, Yuhan Song
Hieronymous Bosch in Context: A Look into the Relationship between the Table of the Seven Deadly Sins and King Philip II of Spain, Abigail Rose Stanley
Upside Down Facings: Exploring Nicole Eisenman's Figurative Paintings, Jeremy Waldinger-White
Constructivism in Early Soviet Russia: Textiles, Graphic Design and Photomontage, Serena Mae Warren
Intimacy For Sale: The Interior Landscape of Social Media, Sophia Michael Weiland
The Post-1990s Chinese Artists and Their Art: Xin Liu, Wa Liu, and Zipiao Zhang, Yifan Ye
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
The Language of Hyperreality: Exploring Cinematic Expressions of the Everyday, 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
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
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